Officiating in the NBA

[ronleroy]

violet palmer for sure, she screwed us so many times with terrible bias calls, its not even speculation anymore.

[raptorstime]

ed malloy, tony brothers, ken mauer

[theycallmeZZ]

That guy who hates the raptors and called the offensive foul on Lowry when he shot 3 pt jumper a month or so ago. Forget his name...Gary somethign?

The three refs in that game were Mark Ayotte, Eric Lewis, Michael Smith

[RonaldArtest]

Violet Palmer + anyone.

[kirkwood]

All refs reward aggressive play, if we play our game it doesn't matter who the fack refs

[ATLTimekeeper]

Tony Brothers is in Indiana tonight, so it looks like we're clear.

[samuraix]

Any NBA ref

[cram]

That guy who hates the raptors and called the offensive foul on Lowry when he shot 3 pt jumper a month or so ago. Forget his name...Gary somethign?

The three refs in that game were Mark Ayotte, Eric Lewis, Michael Smith

Eric Lewis....terrible ref, especially against the Raptors.

[DemarEvolution]

Palmer, Crawford, and that guy that called the ridiculous foul on lowry's 3 pointer earlier this season.

[Waylon Mercy]

Violet Palmer
Tony Brothers
Ed Malloy

[Mack11]

Violet "sexy beast" palmer
Tony Brothers
Eric Lewis

[22haytham22]

Anyone but Joey Crawford

[ecksplicit]

Ken Mauer, Violet Palmer, Tony Brothers

[Double Helix]

Nice try, NBA.

I logged in just to give you and And1 and see how many others did. I love that this was the first response to this question!

I laughed out loud.

[SmoothTofu]

Nice try, NBA.

I logged in just to give you and And1 and see how many others did. I love that this was the first response to this question!

I laughed out loud.

Bought a computer just to say this.

[beachbean]

Refs for TOR/BKN game should be posted by 9AM tomorrow, but in the meantime here's who was in action today...

http://www.nba.com/news/referee.html

[ikosuave]

Today's refs:

Atlanta @ Indiana Tony Brothers Sean Corbin Rodney Mott David Guthrie
By officiating crew (on the floor) ---> chance of HOME team winning 80%

Memphis @ Oklahoma City Scott Foster John Goble Tom Washington Eric Lewis
By officiating crew (on the floor) ---> chance of HOME team winning 57%

Golden State @ L.A. Clippers Ken Mauer David Jones Ed Malloy Michael Smith
By officiating crew (on the floor) ---> chance of HOME team winning 38%

Let's see if that pans out... So far, pretty easily for Indiana.

OKC - MEM looks like it's close, so we'll see if the refs influence that game.

GSW - LAC looks like GSW in control right now. That's the game you might expect the road team to win.

Of the refs left our WORST possible scenario would be a crew of:

Referee Games HomeTeamW%
Danny Crawford 6 0.333
Joe Crawford 6 0.333
Michael Smith 3 0.333
Pat Fraher 3 0.333
Derrick Stafford 5 0.2
Bennett Salvatore 4 0
Brian Forte 1 0
James Capers 2 0
Jason Phillips 1 0
Josh Tiven 1 0
Mike Callahan 1 0
Ron Garretson 1 0
Sean Wright 2 0

[jeffya2]

ANY 3 REFS That want an NBA gig next year {greetings from Silver}

[AntwanBoldin]

@uurds
FTA leaders, TOR-BKN:
1) DeMar DeRozan, 72
2) Kyle Lowry, 35
3) Deron Williams, 31
4) Joe Johnson, 29
5) Jonas Valanciunas, 21

[lolwut]

@uurds
FTA leaders, TOR-BKN:
1) DeMar DeRozan, 72
2) Kyle Lowry, 35
3) Deron Williams, 31
4) Joe Johnson, 29
5) Jonas Valanciunas, 21

Free throw attempts does not tell the story of when fouls are, and are not, called.

For example, if Toronto is down by 1 and Derozan goes for the game winning shot, and gets body slammed by all five Brooklyn players, then a non-call here would not even affect your FTA list despite it having major impact on the outcome of the game. It'll still look like Derozan got the benefit of the whistle all series long.

It's an extreme example but I'm just using it to illustrate the pointlessness of your post.