What can we as fans do to let David Stern knowing that the current officiating is not acceptable?

mysticRight · 11 months

Go here, provide your first and last names and email address. Next select "officiating in the NBA". This implies the NBA has received multiple criticisms of their officiating crew. I'm not sure if what you write will be read or auto-deleted. Tell them what you think. Then stop watching. Don't buy memorabilia. Don't attend games. Don't watch games on TV. If everyone who complained about officiating did this, I am certain Stern would fix the problem.

Would the problem fix itself? It hasn't under Stern's ~30 years as commissioner.

DawsonsBeak · 11 months

All we can do is praise Van Gundy until he flips out and is fined.

RavR · 11 months

The only fix is to not buy tickets and to stop watching games.

But that will never happen, at least not significantly enough to make a difference.

Theres nothing we can do lol. Im still looking to see if Stern does something about flopping, he said hes been trying to push fines for years now.

bykakPyaldacPaksOgVi · 11 months

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HANDLERmc · 11 months

I've been thinking about this recently too. I don't think boycotting games/series is the answer. By boycotting games (either through television or attendence) your affecting so many other variables that come into play in the NBA. While it may not be the main mission, your simultaneously boycotting the teams/players you root for, the arenas they play in, the management of those teams, etc. The only thing I can think of is a letter addressed to the league offices signed by fans, but I can almost guarantee David Stern will never see it (he seems too caught up in his own ego and increasing his own paycheck to pay attention to what fans gave to say). However, this postseason has garnered a lot of attention towards poor officiating/ref control from bigger personalities in the sport, such as Jeff Van Gundy, Chris Webber, and Stephen A. Smith among others, who have used their media power to direct public attention towards the issue. I'm hoping this helps direct the league administration to take action towards the poor officiating.

MedievalValor · 11 months

Nothing. There isn't a goddamn thing you can do.

NBA is a business, and they don't give a shit about you. Unless you are made of money.

lompe · 11 months

If you find a good solution to the problem, please enlighten us (and the league). The way I see it, there is no instant way to fix bad calls. All in all, I don't think the officiating has been to bad in the playoffs this year. I can't think of a game from the top of my mind that was decided by the reffing. There will always be bad calls, and that's sad, but there really is little to do about it in short term.

AllEltonAllTheTime · 11 months

Get a crew of you and your friends to get hired as ref's and then slowly take over. Not exactly the quickest way to do this but being at all of those games would be freakin sweet!

elegantwino · 11 months

For all the calls that go FOR/AGAINST "your team" there are an equal number of calls that go AGAINST/FOR "your team". At the end of the day it all equals out. Basketball is played very fast without the benefit of second guessing or instant replay.

brehm90 · 11 months

Never, ever watch another NBA game. Voting with your feet seems to be the only legitimate, permanent response and that's way to drastic for most people I think.

RuddyBollocks · 11 months

the best way? stop watching nba on tv, stop talking about it online - stop supporting it with your time and money.

[deleted] · 11 months

Stop watching games.

nojusticenpeace · 11 months

shit! the ref just called fisher out of bounds when he was 4 feet away and fisher was clearly in bounds!

Zeppelanoid · 11 months

The only effective move would be to stop going to the games, stop buying merchandise, etc. Hurt them in their pockets. But that ain't gonna work.

High-horse · 11 months

Chant "DON-AGHY" when bad calls are made. Especially during nationally televised games. Bring Stern's black eye to center stage.

Wombatzu · 11 months

What's funny, though, is that the reffing situations that everyone agrees on (last night's Ts, the 2002 Lakers/Kings, Crawford and Duncan, etc.) are the tip of the iceberg.

But the bulk of the iceberg of fan discontent over officiating is less likely to be agreed upon and usually takes shape along the lines of confirmation bias according to what team you like better. In other words, everyone is always upset because they think their team doesn't get enough calls and then something egregiously wrong happens and everyone is "OMG, crisis!"

The crisis is in this new American character of victimization. Everyone has to have their piece of the victim pie. It couldn't possibly be that your team has failed or has flaws; it's probably some person in authority who isn't doling out the victim pie in equal amounts.

[deleted] · 11 months

Yeah, a petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures might do something, but it'd have to be pretty clear cut.

wjbc · 11 months

You could start a blog about it. Truehoop has been focusing attention on flopping, but their job was made easier by all the fans posting examples of flopping to YouTube.

christballs · 11 months

I agree that the officiating has been very bad at times, both in the playoffs and the regular season. Just know that I will gladly get in line with the rest of you as we all wait for Stern to express to us by way of stark silence that we can go fuck ourselves.

23967230985723986 · 11 months

Cameras everywhere and all the players have to wear ping pong balls like those motion capture performers. All the data gets fed into a giant server farm that calculates the momentum of every part of every player's body at any given time, in real time and makes all the calls.

I_AM_LARS · 11 months

Telling people not to watch the games is highly unrealistic.

http://www.myp2ps.com/

DiplomaticDiplodocus · 11 months

Unless you know a way to implant bionic eyes into all of the officials, the officiating isn't going to change. There are dozens of calls in every game and chances are, some are going to be botched. It's two 200+lb guys running into each other at almost inhuman speeds. You can expect it might be difficult to see whose hand touched whose arm.

I can't imagine what any sort of petition might accomplish. Stern is simply going to read a complainant letter and say "Oh, I'll just flip this switch that magically prevents any bad calls."

Missed calls are such a small facet of the game. If you really believe bad officiating is making the game unwatchable, then you are just intentionally looking for things to be negative about.

welltobehonest · 11 months

Nothing is solved by sitting back on the problem. People have complained about the officiating since the early 2000s. It was even voiced on ESPNs First Take. Stern and the officials are directing this year's playoffs.

joeinthebox · 11 months

There has to be some statistics somewhere about NBA officiating, right?

Perhaps some sort of metric to determine whether a ref got the call right or wrong (or even called a foul in the first place) in relation to the impact on the final score of the game. Or something like that.

Perhaps just stats from the last quarter or something.

I have a feeling that with the sheer number of plays that happen in a game, that the calls actually even out... But I'd love to see some numbers.

As for a solution... would it be too much to add another referee on the court as an extra set of eyes? Or more opportunities for a foul to challenged by a coach?

__BlackSheep · 11 months

Murder.

Although there if probably a cleaner way to get Stern's attention.

exaliftin · 11 months

If anything, they at least need to fire Joey Crawford. By far the worst ref ever.

jtoj · 11 months

YOU FOOLISH FOOLS, he runs this shit. you don't think the officials are this "bad" by accident, do you?

EvilJohnCho · 11 months

Step 1. Become a mobster.

Step 2. Pay off Stern.

Step 3. Pay off officials.

Step 4. Wait... This already happens.

RoCon52 · 11 months

Stern is an evil corrupt old man. (IMO) He fixes games for his own benefit, and the benefit of the most "exciting" (richest, most top tier players) teams. Imagine a Pacer vs Thunder finals. Two very small markets, a few big names, Stern would fall over and die. That's why the refs are payed to judge certain ways, like the infamous Lakers Kings series. The Kings got screwed over big time. Why? Because Sacramento is a small market team going against probably the 2nd biggest market in the Lakers. Nobody want's to see the kings in the finals.

Sweaver91 · 11 months

maybe you could create a class action law suit. If you legally bet on a game in Vegas or something, and then you can prove that the NBA fixed the game you bet on and didn't allow fair competition, you maybe could take them to court? I'm not a lawyer, but I would think it would at least bring real attention to the problem

novelty_nba_account · 11 months

Riot

DocHopper · 11 months

It's all about gambling. The refs are doing exactly what they are supposed to. You are clearly an idiot if you think that the NBA owes you something as a fan.

knoedelmann · 11 months

I concentrate on the game and not on few bad calls. This constant crying about the referees is so annoying.

IamHere2BeA_Dick · 11 months

Zero

TheLastCzar · 11 months

These damn referees' past experience HAS to be officiating elementary soccer games. These blind assholes are ruining the game and make it intolerable to watch.

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