Referee union had no involvement in NBA's new plan to publicize evaluation of calls

The National Basketball Referee's Association had no involvement in the NBA's decision to make public the league's evaluation of officiating calls in the final two minutes of close games, a union official told Yahoo Sports on Friday.

"We did not participate in the elaboration of this process and we cannot evaluate its effect until after it has been implemented," NBRA general counsel Lee Seham told Yahoo Sports in an email on Friday.

Beginning next week, the NBA will make public play-by-play reports involving all referee calls in the final two minutes and overtimes of regular-season and playoff games, the NBA announced on Friday. The NBA says each play will be reviewed by a senior referee manager of basketball operations manager and include a video link to the play.

The process will include correct and incorrect calls made by NBA officials. The NBA is calling it part of its "transparency initiative" connected to its officiating program.

The NBRA was informed on Thursday of the NBA's intentions to routintely make public officials evaluations, league sources told Yahoo Sports.





