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I would run around blowing a whistle for 100 grand. Sign me up.
they get paid chump change. I know that if I was a ref making $100,000 per year and some big shot bookie in Vegas offered me $250,000 to make a couple bad calls, I would do it. this happens more than you may want to believe. However, I don't think that the refs should be making millions by any means, but they should make more than what they make now.
"NBA Refs: Pay Raise Might Help Integrity of Game"
http://www.cnbc.com/id/19876494
I would run around blowing a whistle for 100 grand. Sign me up.
me 2 and getting the best veiw of the game would exelente
Yep. The season is longer than the NFL, but you don't have to freeze your ass off for half of it, either. You could easily make another $75,000-$150,000in the offseason through perfectly legitimate and legal endeavors, such as camps/clinics for referees in training.
Integrity shouldn't have a ing price. SPECIALLY since the ers aren't exactly starving! 100,000 isn't chump change, its completely fair pay. People don't pay to see the refs, the refs don't put people in the stands. They are performing a job like anybody else, and they get more vacation time than most people too.
I love the whole "pay the refs more so they don't defraud the league" bull ... pfff.
There's that, and there's also this fun fact: people always want more. There is no way the refs will ever make what even a league average player could make in his career. Even if you could pay them that, then the expectations/demands would just rise to a new level, so to speak. Studies show that most people spend what they make. Pay them more, and they spend more. In other words, not only would it be a morally indefensible policy, it wouldn't really work on a practical level, IMHO.
well I agree that integrity shouldn't have a price, but how can the NBA justify paying some of their worthless executives over $1,000,000 per year whenever all they do is sit on their ass in an office doing next to nothing while a referee actually has REAL effects on games?. sure $100,000 is a lot of money, but including taxes, also take away probably close to a fourth of that in travel expenses. A ref making $100,000 per year probably sees about $40,000 of that.
I am not saying that isn't good money. All I am saying is that it is no wonder why the refs are tempted by more $$$ to help throw a game.
I agree integrity doesn't have a price. But, I do think NBA officials should get paid more. $100,000-$300,000 is a lot of money, but considering that the NBA is a billion dollar business and the players and coaches and executives are all making well into the millions, the officials should share in the success of the business. Instead of $100,000-$300,000, the range should be something like $500,000-$1,000,000.
Agreed 100% ... after all, the refs can make or break a game with one single call. They have just as much effect on the game as the players do.
$100,000 to work maybe 100-120 nights a year for four hours is chump change? , some of them make close to $300,000. Looks like a pretty great job to me.
Uhhh...how much do YOU make a year? Cause where I sit, $100K a year sounds pretty ing awesome to me.
"$100,000 to work maybe 100-120 nights a year"
understating the job. NBA refs are
away from home,
to/from airports,hotels,
flying just totally sucks/stressful/unreliable,
and many hours preparing and reviewing game recordings,
spent decades working their way up to NBA through amateur/semi-pro/etc low-paid ref jobs.
If you put up with all that overhead, $100K for working in show-business is still in the top few % of all salaries. They're not suffering. Nobody's forcing them.
thats not even the point. the point is that you can see how easily tempted the refs may be to take a larger sum of money to blow games and the fact that the NBA executives get paid 10 times more than the refs whenever they do next to nothing for it.
exactly ... $100,000 to them AFTER all travel expenses and taxes is more like $40,000 (plus being away from home). yet some fat slob NBA executive is sitting in his office making $2,000,000 a year. doesn't make sense.
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ok, just curious, but are you sure they don't have expenses paid while traveling to work games for the league? I'd think that would be a no brainer
LOL you dumbass there's no way refs pay their way. They get all that taken care of for them. They probably get put in very nice hotels and I'd bet they get a decent per diem too.
hey face of course the NBA covers their flights and hotel. that was a no brainer ..... but regardless they are on the road and have more expenses than someone who is working a "normal" job. not to mention the fact that they are away from their families the entire time only to come back home with $40,000-$60,000.
are you ing re ed?
yup. and they get free meals, travel, clothing for most of the year. , they live like kings for most of the year.
and, a dirty greedy ref will be greedy and dirty wether he's making 100k or 200k or 300k.
slob on my nob, like corn on a cob
what???
they probably expense everything including all the donuts that Joey Crawford eats. u do know the concept of "travel expense" right?
Yeah, it's not like any of the greedy s have ever been busted for reselling their complimentary league first-class airline tickets, then flying coach. On top of that, it's not like any of them went on to fail to declare this as additional income to the IRS.
Oh wait...that's only the most well-known referee scandal in NBA history, and it happened less than fifteen years ago...
Clearly, giving an asshole like Joey Crawford more money is the solution...
http://www.referee.com/sampleArticle...wfordtext.html
Exactly.
Maybe 100k isn't enough to keep these s from cheating, but 100k a year is enough to keep ME from cheating.
This thread is a perfect example of not understanding basic economics. The price you (or anybody else) gets paid is directly related to the price your boss would have to pay somebody to replace you.
As long as someone else is willing to do the job for $100K, that's the price it's worth.
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