Violet Palmer leaving NBA.....

....just kidding.

Violet Palmer will become coordinator of women's basketball officials for the West Coast Conference and continue to officiate in the NBA, where she has worked for 12 seasons.

Earlier, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Palmer would no longer officiate NBA games.

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I saw this too.

I was excited until they corrected it to say that she will still ref. Too bad, does she really need more on her mind?

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by OCBlazerFan1 on May 28, 2009 3:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Too bad

She is a terrible ref.

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by Dheepan on May 28, 2009 3:21 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

I've heard this, but I've never really seen it

Anyone got reasons (i.e. youtube clips) to show me why she’s so hated?

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by haildablazer on May 28, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This one is decent

Here you go As you can see the rocket player CLEARLY had a foot inside the restricted area, not even by a close margin. Next time you hear a game is being reffed by Violet Palmer watch closely.

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by Dheepan on May 28, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

hmm

Yeah, that’s not good, but far from the worst call I’ve seen. I’ll be watching closely when I hear she’s one of the refs, though, that’s for sure.

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by haildablazer on May 28, 2009 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

seriously

every game has a “clearly” crap call, if not seven.

I watched Violet pretty closely when she came to town this year, and all I saw was her attempt to adhere to the letter of the rules. Can’t really complain about that.

Must really really stink to be her a lot of the time.

by Section323 on May 28, 2009 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's what I was thinking

I will be the last guy on earth to blame a bad call on being a woman. I garauntee it. Unless my girlfriend is calling a game with Rasheed Wallace in it.

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by haildablazer on May 28, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've alway thought that she was alright.

I’ve seen her miss calls, but I wouldn’t call her bad.

I even saw a close call this year from her and screamed to my brother about it at a game. Then I saw the replay. I was dead wrong.

by parkinglotj on May 28, 2009 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, at least you're man enough to admit it.

I wonder how much of a sexist downplay she gets – even unintentionaly.

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by haildablazer on May 28, 2009 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

but here is one good one: Blazers at home vs. Philadelphia, towards end of season. She just stunk it up, so many bad calls on blocking/charges, and post-up, but those are subjective, so, whatever; BUT oh my god did she screw up like 6 very clear possession calls, where the big screen replay showed her to be 100% wrong. That game was brutal to watch.

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by sergioFTW on May 29, 2009 5:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

How do you find inconsitency on Youtube?

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by Blazermaniac77 on May 29, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This was great news

before the correction.

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by Roybot on May 28, 2009 4:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

She’s better then alot of stern implented refs. I actually saw her in her first game against the jail blazers she was allright

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by Dragonage on May 28, 2009 11:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

In my opionion, Violet Palmer is nowhere near as bad as Joey Crawford, Jack Nies, Steve Javie or Ron Garretson

I maintain that, while she certainly isn’t a great official, her gender leads people to notice her missed calls much more than those of her colleagues.

by jksnake99 on May 29, 2009 12:11 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

i hate javie...but i don't think hes that bad

i’d put bennette salvadore on your list tho…and tony brothers?

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by Philthyanimal on May 29, 2009 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

maybe Monty McCutchoen also

by jksnake99 on May 29, 2009 12:21 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

so basically

every ref.

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by Philthyanimal on May 29, 2009 12:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol`

I view Palmer as a slightly below average ref, but I certainly haven’t studied this nearly enough to say with any type of certainty.

by jksnake99 on May 29, 2009 12:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

considering the average ref sucks…for palmer to be below average says a lot. simmons’ piece about reffing raised some good questions. such as planting refs based on situations…or having a “good” ref be under the basket on one end of the floor, but on the half court line on the other making the officiating unequal and hard to guage.

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by Philthyanimal on May 29, 2009 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

refs switch positions after every foul call to try to avoid such problems

by jksnake99 on May 29, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

almost rec

until i saw the update. It was too good to be true.

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by Jiggamant on May 29, 2009 5:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs