The refs should be severely penalized when the don't rule a challenge correctly.

[SHAQATTACK]

Public embarrassment or good ol tar and feather treatment 

[freshinthehouse]

Every team’s fans think their team is getting mistreated.

This pretty much sums up every one of these referee posts.  It's never objective.

[johnnygreen]

Before reviewing the replay, does the referee that made the call need to explain why he called the foul? For instance, the ref thought the defender went to block the shot but hit the offensive players arm. Replay shows the defender never hit the arm, but the defenders left hand touched the offensive players back. I've seen too many times, the referees justify the foul in this manner. Is it correct under the current rules. If not, shouldn't that be changed?

[Celtics2021]

Before reviewing the replay, does the referee that made the call need to explain why he called the foul? For instance, the ref thought the defender went to block the shot but hit the offensive players arm. Replay shows the defender never hit the arm, but the defenders left hand touched the offensive players back. I've seen too many times, the referees justify the foul in this manner. Is it correct under the current rules. If not, shouldn't that be changed?

It is correct under the rules, and I’m fine with it, because the point of replay is to get it right.  I’d like that expanded a bit — they can switch fouls from defensive to offensive and vice versa, but if they call a foul after a player committed an uncalled traveling violation, for example, they should be able to call the travel and wipe out the foul.

[johnnygreen]

I really wish players would stop complaining to the referees on virtually every play. I would imagine the referees review their own games to see if they either missed something or if they were correct. I can't help but be reminded on the fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. If Jayson and Grant complain on virtually every time they shoot the ball, then why should the referees believe them?

[nickagneta]

I just want consistency throughout the officiating. For instance, you see guys that live at the line like Harden, Jah, Durant, Giannis, etc pick up a ton of calls from getting fouled from body contact. Yet a guy like Jaylen that gets tons of body contact on most of his drives never gets those fouls. Now that Brown is shooting FTs in the mid to high 80's, that really hurts the Celtics.

And you see stars hammer guys defensively only not to pick up fouls, yet a good inside defender like Theis just breaths on someone and he picks up a foul.

Consistency! I just want consistency. What a travel is for Grant Williams should be what a travel is for Lebron. But it's not. What's a foul in game one on TNT in a Philly-Miami game isn't a foul in the 2nd game on TNT when it's LAC-GSW. This is the problem with the NBA product and simply never is addressed in the NBA. At least the three other sports have made very public attempts at fixing past and current officiating inconsistencies. You don't see that with the NBA.

[Sophomore]

At least I’d like to see some accountability for missed calls in a last-2-minutes report. Be cool if a website looked through a sample to see whether some refs are outliers for blown calls in the L2Ms and whether there’s any sign of league action. E.g., do they still get assigned to playoff games?

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

At least I’d like to see some accountability for missed calls in a last-2-minutes report. Be cool if a website looked through a sample to see whether some refs are outliers for blown calls in the L2Ms and whether there’s any sign of league action. E.g., do they still get assigned to playoff games?

Someone (on this thread, I think) called the "last two-minutes" reports a form of accountability, but from what I can tell, they're really not, because I'm not seeing any tangible change happening as a result of them—I'm not seeing refs improve, and I'm not seeing the league penalizing refs in any way. Maybe there's some stuff going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, stuff the league wouldn't advertise, but since we keep seeing the same bad officiating, I have to assume that there aren't any actual negative consequences for the officials who keep screwing up, other than (perhaps) not being allowed to ref playoff games.

[ozgod]

Scal did mention one thing that I agree with the other night...these days everyone seems to be able to talk and complain to the refs. It's starting to be like soccer, with flops and complaining. Back in his day he said he was never allowed to speak to the referee, only the likes of PP, KD and Ray could do that