"Our colleague Ray Ratto possesses a bounteous and largely unpublicized trove of knowledge about NBA officials."
"This trove will occasionally reveal itself when someone complains about a call in Slack, only for Ray to respond by hitting them with some Gediminas Petraitis esoterica."
"The three of us traced the history of referees as empowered art critics, groused about the creep of technologification into the practice, and laughed at the formal bios listed on the NBA Officials website."
Internal Defector lore describes a colleague who maintains a bounteous, largely unpublicized trove of knowledge about NBA officials that surfaces during Slack disputes over calls. That colleague often replies with obscure references, including Gediminas Petraitis esoterica. Three participants traced referees' evolution into empowered art critics, criticized the growing technologification of officiating, and derided the formal bios on the NBA Officials website. The exchange emphasized deep institutional knowledge about officiating, the cultural role referees play beyond strict rule enforcement, and skepticism about technology's creeping influence on the human practice of judgment in-game.
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