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  • October 30, 2009 10:30 am  |  13 Comments

    Refs No Longer Allowed to Leave a Tip


    Sorry, locker room attendants. Your days of receiving tips from the zebras are now a thing of the past: “The new collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and National Basketball Referees Association prohibits referees from paying tips or compensation of any kind to locker room attendants or other team or arena personnel for personal services performed for referees by such personnel during games. Consequently, team and arena personnel are now prohibited from asking for or accepting tips or other compensation from referees’ said the memo, which was signed by Ronald Johnson, the league’s senior vice president of referee operations. ‘This is an important change to the CBA,’ the memo states. ‘While we do not believe that the pre-existing practice of tipping locker room attendants has affected the integrity of the officiating in any way, it could be perceived in a negative light, and it is therefore best to eliminate this practice.”

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    • NUPE Posted: Oct.30 at 10:39 am
      Seems like Donaghy is having even more of an impact.

    • Boing Dynasty Posted: Oct.30 at 11:12 am
      what happened to that spot in the magazine were ball boys would tell behind the scenes stories about players? That was a pretty good idea, even if poorly exicuted.

    • Allenp Posted: Oct.30 at 11:39 am
      You want a tip?
      Don’t eat egg salad on the bus.

    • doyouwantmore Posted: Oct.30 at 4:36 pm
      At least the refs are still allowed to RECEIVE tips just before the game.

    • Michael Scorn Posted: Oct.30 at 5:02 pm
      This fixes everything wrong with the NBA.

    • Ben Posted: Oct.30 at 10:35 pm
      This fixes everything wrong with the NBA.

    • Joball McGhee Posted: Oct.30 at 11:48 pm
      greatest move in NBA history. This ensures fair play from now until…

    • Sam Z Posted: Oct.31 at 4:41 am
      until now cus it barely does anything to clean up everything thats been suspected of happening. but it is a step in the right direction

    • Rashard Lewis Posted: Oct.31 at 12:39 pm
      They should just eliminate the locker room attendants if this is such a huge problem!

    • Exist4eva Posted: Oct.31 at 1:37 pm
      WTF? How can giving someone 5 bucks to get your coffee and donuts be seen in a bad light?

    • Tarzan Cooper Posted: Oct.31 at 3:14 pm
      this is dumb, im sure attendants dont get paid much, i bet they relied on those tips

    • Dacre Posted: Nov.1 at 12:59 am
      Yeah sure… giving an attendant 20 cool ones to go and take KG’s kicks whilst in the shower really harmonises the ‘we not me’, adidas were after… :|

    • dial up Posted: Nov.1 at 12:20 pm
      obviously taken from donaghy’s book, as the nba was “investigating” what was put on deadspin about him bettin with refs on who’s gonna tip who. The nba lacks such credibility, such as if lebron is gonna average .4 fouls throughout the playoffs while also getting around 20 free throws a game. enuf said.

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