NBPA: No Scott Foster in the Finals, please

Player survey not good for Foster, John Goble, David Guthrie, Rodney Mott, others

The NBPA sent, and many reporters shared, the results of an NBA player survey of referees.

One name leapt out: Rodney Mott in Tier 3. Tier 3 is almost all new referees; Mott, on the other hand, is in his 28th season.

And, doubling down on the idea there’s something a little off about Rodney Mott: the league didn’t assign him any playoff games.

But then when I went to dig in, it seemed a little weird. The chart above is missing some referees. I found where the chart is hosted on the Players Association website, and that chart is different in important ways.