I came along a blog post that caught my attention right away. This time it wasn’t a famous athlete in the NBA but someone i can relate to from a fan standpoint. Blogger Dannaher wrote a short post about the problem in the NBA recently. His post covers about the officiating being done in past lately. One game he breaks down as the worst league officiating would be the Houston rockets playing against the Golden state Warriors. The game was a close game and being televised nationwide. The game was being decided basically over a review play from the officials. It was one of the most obvious calls and lately the NBA officiating has been done poorly, like missing obvious calls. Author Dannaher describes it as “frightening” and majority of the NBA world would have to agree. Referees(Refs)control how the game goes most time, if it’s a good reffing the fans could tell & they will enjoys their time no matter the outcome most times. Player Criticizing the refers usually get fined in the league especially if its star players. One way to fix the problem in reffing to have a fair and easy game would be treating players and Refs the same. When reading more of this blog, author Dannaher gives out three points that would help the league. One of his ideas would be to fine the refs that had horrible missed calls. Players are making millions from playing the game, on the other hand referees making less than that it would be only fair to fine them based on income. With this solution we know that no one likes being fined out their own money so throwing this idea would make things fair and give officiating a game more accurate. The second suggestion he gives out would be having a post-game interview not for players but for officiators. This caught my attention not only does the officials have to explain the reasoning they had but to also answer multiple question to give the fans a point of view of the officiating and game. While the last one is likely to be efficient, he suggested that we demote referees to lower leagues. Just like a player that goes to a lower league if he/she doesn’t perform well. They will give their best effort to be brought up in the NBA instead of the G-league. The NBA is like any other business, employees that don’t do well shouldn’t be awarded or protected to not do their best job. The Author mentions that “Missing calls and not calling obvious fouls on national television is bad for the NBA as a company”. Fans aren’t going to watch multiple bad officiating games.
work cited
Dannaher , Kevin. “The Prominent Problem in the NBA and How to Fix It.” WordPress.com, 2019, wordpress.com/read/blogs/127556414/posts/13470.
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