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Referees A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titles ...
in the
National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...
(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
athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...
s, making calls with 95%
accuracy Accuracy and precision are two measures of ''observational error''. ''Accuracy'' is how close a given set of measurements (observations or readings) are to their ''true value''. ''Precision'' is how close the measurements are to each other. The ...
." 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.


Officials

For the
2024–25 NBA season The 2024–25 NBA season is the 79th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 22, 2024, and ended on April 13, 2025. The NBA held an in-season tournament for the second consecutive year, now called ...
, there are 75 staff officials and 9 non-staff officials:


Staff officials

* Ray Acosta, #54 * Brandon Adair, #67 * Bennie Adams, #47 * Brent Barnaky, #36 * Curtis Blair, #74 * Matt Boland, #18 *
Tony Brothers Tony Brothers (born September 14, 1964) is an American professional basketball referee who works in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been a referee in the NBA since the 1994–95 season. Now in his 31st year, Brothers has offici ...
, #25 *
Nick Buchert Nick Buchert is a professional basketball official who has worked in the National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United ...
, #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 * Robert Hussey, #85 * Intae Hwang, #73 *
Simone Jelks Simone Marie Jelks (born March 9, 1986) is an American professional basketball Official (basketball), referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 81. Jelks became the seventh woman to be a full-time NBA referee. As of the ...
, #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 Ashley Moyer-Gleich ( ; born August 5, 1987) is an American professional basketball Official (basketball), referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA), wearing number 13. Moyer-Gleich became the fourth woman to be a full-time NBA referee. ...
, #13 * Matt Myers, #43 * Andy Nagy, #83 * Brett Nansel, #44 * J.T. Orr, #72 * Gediminas Petraitis, #50 * JD Ralls, #94 * Phenizee Ransom, #70 * Derek Richardson, #63 * Tyler Ricks, #95 * 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 Osie Leon Wood III (born March 25, 1962), is an American former professional basketball player. A college All-American, he was a first round NBA draft pick, and both an Olympic and Pan-Am Games gold-medalist. He subsequently has had a career ...
, #40 * Sean Wright, #4 *
Zach Zarba Zachary Zarba (born April 28, 1975) is an American professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association. He wore uniform number 58 until the 2012–2013 season, when he changed to 28, and currently wears uniform number 15. Za ...
, #15


Non-staff officials

* Agon Abazi, #88 * Nate Cearley, #84 * Brent Haskill, #92 * Biniam Maru, #80 * Tyler Mirkovich, #97 * Pat O’Connell, #90 * Chelisa Painter, #79 * Jenna Reneau, #93 * Marcelyn Williams, #76


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External links

* * {{cite web, url=https://www.nbra.net, title=National Basketball Referees Association (NBRA) NBA referees National Bask