THE NBA WILL MAKE PUBLIC ITS REVIEWS OF CALLS IN THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF CLOSE GAMES.

THE NBA WILL MAKE PUBLIC ITS REVIEWS OF CALLS IN THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF CLOSE GAMES. I have made a number of posts arguing that sports leagues should make public their reviews of every call made by referees during a game. My main argument has been that the refereeing is part of the narrative of the game. If I spend three hours watching a game, I want to know what happened. This Associated Press article on the ESPN site reports that: Starting Monday the NBA “will release play-by-play reports of all calls and relevant no-calls in the final minutes of close games….”

Making the reviews public should also shed light on the often-expressed view that referees call fouls differently in the last two minutes of a game and during playoff games. I posted here about the three sets of NBA rules.

I always doubted that this would happen. I think the change will be a success and that soon the reports on the other 46 minutes of a game will be made public as well.

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