Referees
A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titl ...
in the
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...
(NBA) oversee 120 pre-season games, 1,260
regular season games, and four rounds of
playoff matches. These officials "oversee competition in real-time between 10 exceptional
athletes,
making calls with 95%
accuracy
Accuracy and precision are two measures of ''observational error''.
''Accuracy'' is how close a given set of measurements ( observations or readings) are to their ''true value'', while ''precision'' is how close the measurements are to each oth ...
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In March 2015, the NBA began issuing Last Two Minutes reports that detail the performance of referees at the ends of games which the point differential is within five points with two minutes or less remaining in the contest.
Officials
For the
2022–23 NBA season, there are 74 staff officials and 8 non-staff officials:
Staff officials
* Ray Acosta, #54
* Brandon Adair, #67
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Bennie Adams
Bennie Adams (born April 8, 1967) is an American professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association.
In a regular season game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers on April 12, 2011, Adams called a technical ...
, #47
* Brent Barnaky, #36
* Curtis Blair, #74
* Matt Boland, #18
*
Tony Brothers, #25
* Tony Brown, #6
*
Nick Buchert, #3
* John Butler, #53
* James Capers, #19
* Derrick Collins, #11
* John Conley, #79
* Sean Corbin, #33
* Kevin Cutler, #34
* Mousa Dagher, #28
* Eric Dalen, #37
* Marc Davis, #8
*
JB DeRosa, #62
* Mitchell Ervin, #27
* Cheryl Flores, #91
*
Tyler Ford, #39
* Brian Forte, #45
* Scott Foster, #48
* Pat Fraher, #26
* Jacyn Goble, #68
* John Goble, #30
* Jason Goldenberg, #35
* Nate Green, #65
* David Guthrie, #16
*
Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling, #7
* Robert Hussey, #85
*
Simone Jelks
Simone Marie Jelks (born March 9, 1986) is an American professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 81. Jelks became the seventh woman to be a full-time NBA referee. As of the 2020–21 NBA season J ...
, #81
* Matt Kallio, #88
*
Bill Kennedy, #55
* Courtney Kirkland, #61
* Marat Kogut, #32
* Karl Lane, #77
* Eric Lewis, #42
* Mark Lindsay, #29
* Tre Maddox, #23
* Ed Malloy, #14
* Suyash Mehta, #82
* Dannica Mosher, #89
*
Rodney Mott
Rodney Mott is a referee in the National Basketball Association, where he has worked since 1998.
Career
On January 12, 2007, Mott was suspended for three games after making obscene gestures and using obscenities toward fans during a game.
Mot ...
, #71
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Ashley Moyer-Gleich
Ashley Moyer-Gleich ( ; born August 5, 1987) is an American professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 13. Moyer-Gleich became the fourth woman to be a full-time NBA referee. Moyer-Gleich played co ...
, #13
* Matt Myers, #43
* Andy Nagy, #83
* Brett Nansel, #44
* J.T. Orr, #72
* Gediminas Petraitis, #50
* Phenizee Ransom, #70
* Derek Richardson, #63
*
Natalie Sago
Natalie Sago (born May 24, 1989) is a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 9. Sago is the fifth woman to become a full-time NBA referee.
On November 15, 2018, the NBA announced that Sago wa ...
, #9
* Jenna Schroeder, #84
* Brandon Schwab, #86
* Danielle Scott, #87
* Evan Scott, #78
* Kevin Scott, #24
* Aaron Smith, #51
* Michael Smith, #38
*
Jonathan Sterling
Jonathan Sterling (born April 16, 1982) is a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 17. Sterling also played college basketball at Flagler College where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree i ...
, #17
* Ben Taylor, #46
* Dedric Taylor, #21
* Josh Tiven, #58
* Scott Twardoski, #52
* Justin Van Duyne, #64
* Scott Wall, #31
* CJ Washington, #12
* Tom Washington, #49
* James Williams, #60
*
Leon Wood
Osie Leon Wood III (born March 25, 1962), is an American former professional basketball player. A college All-American, he was a first round NBA draft pick, and both an Olympic and Pan-Am Games gold-medalist. He subsequently has had a career ...
, #40
* Sean Wright, #4
*
Zach Zarba, #15
Non-staff officials
* Brent Haskill, #92
* Intae Hwang, #96
* Tyler Mirkovich, #97
* Sha’Rae Mitchell, #98
* Pat O’Connell, #90
* JD Ralls, #94
* Jenna Reneau, #93
* Tyler Ricks, #95
References
NBA referees
National Bask
External links
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* {{cite web, url=https://www.nbra.net, title=National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA)