Recently I have found out that there 59 referees working in the National Basketball Association. That is a huge number if one thinks about it. Comparing it to 30 referees in FIFA. Another interesting thing is that during a half time in a regular NBA basketball game the refs also take rest where they discuss the first half. They think of any better way to referee the game in a clean way. Besides that every referee is responsible for paying his own flight ticket to the city where his next game is planned to be. I find that a bit strange, since it is there job and shouldn't the company pay for them?
Any new thing in the league that has been put forward last year is that refs referee in teams. Some people have been noticing that certain referees have been refereeing together for couple of games consecutively. Well the idea of this is that a group of refs is formed if they live close to each other. The league believes this might help out with refs being able to make better bonds and make better decisions on the basketball court. Another thing that I have frequently heard from my friends is that some games are more important then others and they need much more experienced refs. Well that is not true, on some occasions it happens that a group of experienced refs are refereeing a game together, but that is just scheduling or in some cases the inability of ref to arrive at the game, due to that he is replaced.
where do you get most of your information?
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