Salary Discrimination In The NBA

Referees The outcomes of games are affected by referees, especially the racial mix of referees (Price, 2010). Referees, like fans, favor their own race as described by Price (2010). Fouls are the most affected with the mix of referees for the game. Not only are fouls affected but the behavior of the players are affected due to the referees. NBA makes sure that referees are randomized for every game. This way there is no connection between the racial makeup of referees and the teams playing. The NBA has approximately sixty referees every season and for every game there are three referees. The assignments of referees are random as well as being made to where a group of three referees work together for only a couple of games before they are regrouped. The rules that every referee needs to follow includes the following, “they can’t officiate more than nine games for any team, or referee twice in a city within a fourteen-day period” (Price, 2010). 70-75 games a year are officiated by each referee. Along with referees …show more content…
In the 1980s salary discrimination was a big issue especially in the NBA. By the 1990s it was on a steady decline. In baseball and football in 1990s there was hardly any evidence of salary discrimination. With this information salary discrimination, in sports is not as big of a problem as it once was (Kern, 2000, pg. 126-127). On the other hand customer discrimination still has a long way to travel before it can truly be considered eliminated as stated by Kern (2000, pg. 127). From where we have started in sport discrimination, we have improved greatly. We are nowhere near able to say it has been eliminated in sports altogether, but the improvements we have made are remarkable. For example blacks were not able to join sports until the 1940s, now they are the highest paid athletes in the United