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NBA Loses Four Refs, 72 Years Of Experience
Sep 15, 2010 8:16 AM EST
Four NBA referees with a combined 72 years of experience have either retired or moved on this offseason.
Joe DeRosa, Joe Forte, Sean Corbin and Phil Robinson will not call games this season.
The vacancies will be filled by five NBDL officials.
The 60-person staff for 2010-11 will be younger and less experienced, continuing a recent trend. The league has lost several seasoned referees over the last half decade.
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One of them won't be missed
Please take Eddie F. Rush with you.
Is Bevetta still going refing?
Forte's is surely a retirement.
Derosa is curious, to an extent, because he's relatively young (53), had just become a playoff crew chief in 2010, which is an elite position that only 6 officials get each year. But then again, in that role, he faced that controversy in Orlando for throwing a ball at a fan.
I thought Corbin had been something of a rising star among the officials, but he seems to have capped out and was on his way back down the ranks.
Phil Robinson was a pretty bad official, in my mind.
good.
Who's traveling now, es?
Here is a NY Times article. Bavetta and Javie will return, although Javie considered leaving.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/sp...15referee.html
72 Years Experience Out; 5 New Referees In
By HOWARD BECK
Published: September 14, 2010
The latest changes to the N.B.A.’s officiating staff include four significant departures and one very large addition.
Four veteran referees with a combined 72 seasons of N.B.A. experience have retired or moved on: Joe DeRosa, Joe Forte, Sean Corbin and Phil Robinson. The vacancies will be filled by five Development League referees, one of whom will stand out for his size if nothing else.
Kevin Cutler, who is 6 feet 8 inches, will be one of the two tallest officials in N.B.A. history. (Michael Henderson, who was also 6-8, worked for the league from 2001 to 2005.)
Cutler, 42, became a curiosity in N.B.A. arenas last season when he refereed a half dozen games as part of an initiative aimed at preparing top prospects. Four others who participated in that program — Brent Barnaky, Nick Buchert, Josh Tiven and James Williams — have also been promoted.
The 60-person staff for 2010-11 will be younger and less experienced, continuing a recent trend. The league has lost several seasoned referees over the last half decade, mostly to injury or retirement.
Steve Javie, one of the league’s best referees, nearly joined that group but will return for a 25th season. Javie, 55, considered retiring after a painful knee condition forced him to miss most of last season. He has decided to return, however. Javie has worked 210 playoff games, including 21 finals games.
Bavetta, who turns 71 in December, is returning for his 36th season despite persistent rumblings that the league is pushing him to retire.
Bavetta has officiated an N.B.A.-record 2,434 games and has never missed an assignment. But he has slipped in the referee rankings over the past few years.
DeRosa, 53, spent 21 seasons in the N.B.A., officiating 114 playoff games and 11 finals games. He worked two games in the 2010 finals, indicating that he still rated as one of the league’s top officials.
Forte, 66, worked in the league for 22 seasons — including 134 playoff games — but his final season was cut short because of an injury. He is the only official to have worked an N.B.A. finals game, an Olympic gold medal game, an N.C.A.A. championship and a high-school state championship. His son, Brian, is also an N.B.A. referee.
Corbin, 44, spent 17 seasons in the N.B.A. and worked 51 playoff games. Robinson, 49, worked 12 seasons in the league but never became a playoff referee.
The league did not specify the reasons for any of the departures.
A version of this article appeared in print on September 15, 2010, on page B14 of the New York edition.
Oh !
How old is Bavetta???
Just buy a condo in Florida already !!!!
So a new generation of crappy officials will fill the void. :/The vacancies will be filled by five NBDL officials.
isnt bavetta 30 yrs older than these guys and still going?
Yeah I know? BTW when is baldo going to retire? Elmor Fud I shoul call him? I wish he never came back after that Timmy incident where he got suspended.
BTW what is that in your sig with that teacher bending over? Looks like a movie and I would like to see that scene there man
Another move by Stern to ensure a Lakers-Heat final.
That is going to happen anyway
Good in' riddance
Go live with your tainted souls you corrupt smokers.
At this rate Duncan and Dirk will retire before either of the Crawfords
Crooked ers. I hope Bavetta dies soon.
Not many others I respect more than Bavetta.
So we're rid of these 4 officials, and in exchange, we get the rebirth of Violet Palmer:
Damn you can look at this either one of two ways....good because some of these guys sucked...or now here come the inexperienced refs...
At first I thought it was due to the Donaghy (sp?) thing. My question is: When is Crawford getting the boot? Or is he gone already?
For the sake of women breaking into previously male-only professions, I wish she didn't suck so hard.
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