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Replacement Referees Ready for Preseason

Sep 29, 2009, 10:05 PM UTC

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Oh, The Irony: NBA Referees’ Lead Negotiator Finds Himself a Replacement

With the NBA referee lockout still in full effect, the NBA is set to bring in the scab refs. The replacements will take the court for their first action this week when the NBA preseason begins. The NBA hopes the new referees fare better than the notoriously poor (which, by the NBA's standards says a lot) replacements refs in 1995 did.

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