What really should happen is having a auditor group, outside the control of the officiating group, that uses these awesome new player cameras to monitor the refs. Have a sliding scale on human errors and have accountability for officials. Like a report card that determine who calls playoff games. Only those that call it right most the time can officiate playoff and national televised regular season games. Give them incentive to do right. Then dumb fuck "look at me" officials aren't "grandfathered" in. Only the ones calling it fairly
dunno about that..but As of 2014, the average salary for an NBA referee is between $100,000 to $550,000 per year. This salary is given to referees who work a full basketball season which is about of 82 total games An entry-level referee can expect to make an average of $150,000, whereas senior-level referees are paid on the highest level of the spectrum. NBA referees often start their career with high school and college games and then move their way up to the NBA league. Referees need to know the basic rules of basketball and exhibit excellent court presence and on-court communication. An NBA referee needs to hone his skills to include the knowledge of NBA-provided feedback as well as play-calling. How about if there was a sliding scale for shit calls? If these guys are yanking down 12 to 50K per game, they really should be held to a stricter standard than the garbage we now have to put up with. Not saying they have to be perfect, but to flat our ignore a call based upon some preconceived notion of stardom..ludicrous
Just to play Devils advocate... Aldridge's left hand comes out fairly often and its usually not called. Remember how much they called him on it during the pre season?
