Referees in the National Basketball Association (NBA) oversee 120 pre-season games, 1,260 regular season games, and four rounds of playoff matches. These officials "oversee competition in real-time between 10 exceptional athletes, making calls with 95% accuracy."[1]

In March 2015, the NBA began issuing Last Two Minutes reports that detail the performance of referees at the ends of games which the point differential is within five points with two minutes or less remaining in the contest.[2]

Officials

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For the 2023–24 NBA season, there are 74 staff officials and 8 non-staff officials:[3][a]

Staff officials

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  • Ray Acosta, #54
  • Brandon Adair, #67
  • Bennie Adams, #47
  • Brent Barnaky, #36
  • Curtis Blair, #74
  • Matt Boland, #18
  • Tony Brothers, #25
  • Nick Buchert, #3
  • John Butler, #30
  • James Capers, #19
  • Derrick Collins, #11
  • John Conley, #56
  • Sean Corbin, #33
  • Kevin Cutler, #34
  • Mousa Dagher, #28
  • Eric Dalen, #37
  • Marc Davis, #8
  • JB DeRosa, #22
  • Mitchell Ervin, #27
  • Che Flores, #91
  • Tyler Ford, #39
  • Brian Forte, #45
  • Scott Foster, #48
  • Pat Fraher, #26
  • Jacyn Goble, #68
  • John Goble, #10
  • Jason Goldenberg, #35
  • Nate Green, #41
  • David Guthrie, #16
  • Intae Hwang, #96
  • Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling, #7
  • Robert Hussey, #85
  • Simone Jelks, #81
  • Matt Kallio, #53
  • Bill Kennedy, #55
  • Courtney Kirkland, #61
  • Marat Kogut, #32
  • Karl Lane, #77
  • Mark Lindsay, #29
  • Tre Maddox, #23
  • Ed Malloy, #14
  • Suyash Mehta, #82
  • Sha'Rae Mitchell, #98
  • Dannica Mosher, #89
  • Rodney Mott, #71
  • Ashley Moyer-Gleich, #13
  • Matt Myers, #43
  • Andy Nagy, #83
  • Brett Nansel, #44
  • J.T. Orr, #72
  • Gediminas Petraitis, #50
  • Phenizee Ransom, #70
  • Derek Richardson, #63
  • Natalie Sago, #9
  • Jenna Schroeder, #20
  • Brandon Schwab, #86
  • Danielle Scott, #87
  • Evan Scott, #78
  • Kevin Scott, #24
  • Aaron Smith, #51
  • Michael Smith, #38
  • Jonathan Sterling, #17
  • Ben Taylor, #46
  • Dedric Taylor, #21
  • Josh Tiven, #58
  • Scott Twardoski, #52
  • Justin Van Duyne, #64
  • Scott Wall, #31
  • CJ Washington, #12
  • Tom Washington, #49
  • James Williams, #60
  • Leon Wood, #40
  • Sean Wright, #4
  • Zach Zarba, #15

Non-staff officials

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  • Clare Aubry, #76
  • Brent Haskill, #92
  • Biniam Maru, #80
  • Tyler Mirkovich, #97
  • Pat O’Connell, #90
  • JD Ralls, #94
  • Jenna Reneau, #93
  • Tyler Ricks, #95

Notes

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  1. ^ #6 was retired league-wide in 2023 to honour Bill Russell.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "NBA referee biographies".
  2. ^ Larsen, Andy (February 26, 2016). "Jazz struggling with NBA referee respect". KSL.com. Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  3. ^ "2023–24 NBA Officiating Staff" (PDF). Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  4. ^ Lopez, Andrew (August 11, 2022). "Bill Russell's No. 6 to be retired across NBA following legend's death last month". ESPN. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved February 5, 2023.
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