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Replacement refs to start season

By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The NBA told its teams in a memo Tuesday that it was proceeding forward with plans to use replacement officials in the upcoming season after referees shot down the latest offer from the league. Locked out NBA referees voted 43-14 to decline the league's proposal, and a changed vote by one member of the union's executive board played a major role in scuttling the deal, ESPN.com learned Tuesday. The vote took place Sunday in Washington as the league's 57 referees met to review a new offer made b ...

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