NBA union head, refs to meet over tension

NBA players association head Michele Roberts is meeting with members of the referees union to discuss "growing tension" between the players and officials,

NBA players association head Michele Roberts is meeting with members of the referees union to discuss "growing tension" between the players and officials, according to a report from ESPN.

Per the report:

"After Lee Seham, the general counsel for the National Basketball Referees Association, had grown increasingly dissatisfied working with the NBA on contentious issues between game officials and players, he called the players association's executive director, Michele Roberts: Let's get together and talk, Seham proposed."

Roberts told ESPN that players seem to feel as if the refs are becoming unapproachable.

"Our players also complained about being ignored, told to 'shut up,' told to 'move' or, in extreme circumstances, hit with a technical," she said.

"There have been four or five occasions when a player has gone to say, 'Hey, what's up with that?' and the official holds his hand up like a stop sign, like, 'I don't have time to talk to you.' ... Lee [Seham] told me, 'That's what they're trained to do.'"

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