Earpieces
The referees are wired to Secaucus
Last week I wrote about the NBA’s decade-plus effort to make calls more accurate by finding some way to transmit findings from the eye in the sky, the NBA replay center in Secaucus, to the referees on the court.
Coach’s challenges were created as a crappy now-and-again stopgap way to upgrade accuracy until they figured out something more stable and permanent.
But at the time I published that story, the league had not yet enacted what they had quietly announced was in the works: every referee with a headset connection to the replay center all game long. I ended that story with a bit of a mystery: where were those headsets, which had been promised in January?
This week, headsets magically appeared. Watch Bucks vs. Thunder. Doesn’t it seem al…
