Poor officiating has been one of the major issues that the NBA has been trying to address in the past few years like the review of goaltending, block and charge calls in the final two minutes and overtime.
On Friday, the NBA revealed that it will create and use a centralized replay center to assist referees in making the right calls and in turn speed up the pace of the games.
ESPN.com quoted NBA president of basketball operations Rod Thorn as saying about the project: "What we're in the process of doing is we're going to create a central location where we'll have people there who will be watching every game. When the referees go over to the side, in many instances the [central replay center] will already know what happened and they'll be able to tell the referee, which will hopefully take less time."
The proposal is one of the initiatives of new commissioner Adam Silver. According to ESPN, the world's premier basketball league is following the footsteps of the NHAL which in 2011 created what is called as the 'situation room' where 'all goals from all games can be reviewed with calls communicated to the officials on the ice.' That experiment has led to shortened time replays while lessening the pressure from the referees in making the right calls.
Thorn said of the proposal: "It's still a work in progress for exactly how it's [going to work]. On the line calls, like whether it's a 3-pointer or 2-pointer, or in many occasions they'll be able to tell the referee the ball was definitely [out of bounds], whatever team. That should help."
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