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Starting from Saturday, nba Referees will wear earpieces to improve accuracy league The announcement was made on Friday.
Everyone Punch According to the NBA, an earpiece will be installed on his uniform to “improve game flow and increase efficiency.”
The referee will open the device and place it in Ear Only during instant replay review and other clock stoppages as needed, but not during live game,
This is the first phase of a two-phase program planned to help officials communicate in real time with the NBA Replay Center and each other.
After evaluation in the first phase, referees in the second phase will wear earpieces throughout the game – including live games. This phase is scheduled to begin in January and last until at least the All-Star break in February.
“During Phase 2, referees will be able to communicate directly with the Replay Center and each other at all times during the game,” the league said in a statement. news release.
The technology was tested in NBA preseason games over the past two seasons, as well as the NBA Summer League and NBA G League Winter Showcases.
Earlier this month, an explosive indictment accused the basketball stars and bookmakers of conspiring with four of the Five New York Families to rig illegal, high-stakes poker games across the country with high-tech equipment — with threats of violence against Marks, who was in debt from the fraudulent scheme.
Allegations unsealed in Brooklyn federal court Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones were charged with participating in the alleged scheme along with 30 other defendants.
According to prosecutors, beginning at least in 2019, the defendants and their co-conspirators “engaged in a complex fraudulent scheme to rig or defraud illegal poker games” throughout the United States, where high rollers were enticed to play with big names at the tables before being paid thousands of dollars per game.