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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 5351385, member: 6620"] [B]ESPN Article Surveys Array of WNBA-Connected People on Englebert, Officiating, CBA, Etc.[/B] What caught my attention on the officiating was the institutional lack of support for refereeing, from not having a control center to the ability of certain arenas to support multiple camera angles. Here's an excerpt: "Players, coaches and executives across the league have flagged a lack of consistency by referees as well as the level of physicality allowed. A team executive said those are valid concerns, but some of the issues have deeper roots. "My first issue with officiating is not the officials, it's that it's not resourced from the arenas we play in, to not having a replay center," they told ESPN. "That's a fundamental [resource], I think, that objectively needs to be changed." "The executive pointed to the WNBA arenas in Dallas, Connecticut, Chicago and Atlanta as problems -- those courts don't have the same technology and camera angles that other markets have that are viewed as crucial for calling a game correctly." Well, that countered my frequent asides to my wife about "why doesn't the control center just get this done?" Mr. Silver...want to make your NBA center available? Here's a link the rest of the story: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/46607235/wnba-2025-cba-negotiations-cathy-engelbert-officiating[/URL] [/QUOTE]