In his younger days, Monty McCutchen, now the Senior Vice President and Head of Referee Development & Training for the NBA, had few prospects for a professional basketball career. Money was tight for ...

Fans scrutinizing every whistle and non-call has always been just a fact of life in basketball. Unfortunately, the ridiculous rhetoric is only getting worse in the NBA’s replay review era. Thankfully, ...

The post Exclusive: NBA VP explains how ‘processing powers’ separate great referees appeared first on ClutchPoints. When Monty McCutchen, the NBA’s Senior Vice President of Referee Development and ...

The league made that announcement Friday, rolling out a two-phase plan to implement the devices. The first phase, which is expected to continue into January, will see referees having the earpiece ...

JAMESTOWN, New York -- After wrapping up a 24-hour shift as a firefighter in Toledo, Ohio, this past weekend, Myles Copeland went to New York to suit up for his other job, a player for Toledo Glass ...

Starting Saturday, NBA referees will begin using headsets during regular-season games for the first time. The league made that announcement Friday, rolling out a two-phase plan to implement the ...

From this Saturday, November 1, NBA referees will begin wearing headsets to improve real-time communication with the league’s replay center and with one another, the NBA confirmed on Friday. The new ...

The play went down between Minnesota lynx forward Napheesa Collier and Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas in the last 30 seconds of the game. Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve questions ...

NBA referee Zach Zarba explained why Kevin Durant wasn't assessed a technical foul near the end of overtime during the ...