List of National Basketball Association referees

The following is a list of referees in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

2015–16 NBA officiating staff

• No. 3 Nick Buchert (6th Season)
• No. 4 Sean Wright (11th Season)
• No. 5 Kane Fitzgerald (7th Season)
• No. 6 Tony Brown (14th Season)
• No. 7 Lauren Holtkamp (2nd Season)
• No. 8 Marc Davis (18th Season)
• No. 9 Derrick Stafford (28th Season)
• No. 10 Ron Garretson (29th Season) son the late Darrell Garretson, former NBA referee and Supervisor of Officiating
• No. 11 Derrick Collins (15th Season)
• No. 12 Violet Palmer (19th Season) one of the first two full-time female officials in the major North American professional sports leagues
• No. 13 Monty McCutchen (23rd Season)
• No. 14 Ed Malloy (14th Season)
• No. 15 Zach Zarba (13th Season)
• No. 16 David Guthrie (11th Season)
• No. 17 Joe Crawford (39th Season; retiring at conclusion of 2016 NBA playoffs)
• No. 18 Matt Boland (13th Season)
• No. 19 James Capers (21st Season)
• No. 20 Leroy Richardson (21st Season)
• No. 21 Dedric Taylor (2nd Season)
• No. 22 Bill Spooner (27th Season)
• No. 23 Jason Phillips (16th Season)
• No. 24 Mike Callahan (26th Season)
• No. 25 Tony Brothers (22nd Season)
• No. 26 Pat Fraher (15th Season)
• No. 27 Mitchell Ervin (1st Season)
• No. 28 Kevin Scott (5th Season)
• No. 29 Mark Lindsay (9th Season)
• No. 30 John Goble (9th Season)
• No. 31 Scott Wall (21st Season)
• No. 32 Marat Kogut (7th Season)
• No. 33 Sean Corbin (21st Season)
• No. 34 Kevin Cutler (6th Season)
• No. 35 Steve Anderson (3rd Season)
• No. 36 David Jones (27th Season)
• No. 37 Eric Dalen (8th Season)
• No. 38 Michael Smith (23rd Season)
• No. 39 Tyler Ford (1st Season)
• No. 40 Leon Wood (20th Season)
• No. 41 Ken Mauer (30th Season)
• No. 42 Eric Lewis (12th Season)
• No. 43 Dan Crawford (31st Season)
• No. 44 Eli Roe (11th Season)
• No. 45 Brian Forte (9th Season)
• No. 46 Ben Taylor (3rd Season)
• No. 47 Bennie Adams (21st Season)
• No. 48 Scott Foster (22nd Season)
• No. 49 Tom Washington (25th Season)
• No. 50 Gediminas Petraitis (1st Season)
• No. 52 Scott Twardoski (5th Season)
• No. 55 Bill Kennedy (18th Season)
• No. 56 Mark Ayotte (12th Season)
• No. 58 Josh Tiven (6th Season)
• No. 59 Gary Zielinski (15th Season)
• No. 60 James Williams (6th Season)
• No. 61 Courtney Kirkland (16th Season)
• No. 63 Derek Richardson (19th Season)
• No. 64 Justin Van Duyne (2nd Season)
• No. 66 Haywoode Workman (8th Season)
• No. 70 Brent Barnaky (6th Season)
• No. 71 Rodney Mott (19th Season)
• No. 72 J.T. Orr (5th Season)
• No. 73 Tre Maddox (5th Season)
• No. 74 Curtis Blair (8th Season)
• No. 77 Karl Lane (5th Season)

2015–16 non-staff officials

• No. 54 Ray Acosta (15-present)
• No. 62 JB DeRosa (15-present)
• No. 65 Jason Goldenberg (15-present)
• No. 67 Brett Nansel (13–present)
• No. 68 Aaron Smith (15-present)
• No. 75 CJ Washington (13–present)
• No. 76 Vladimir Voyard-Todal (15-present)

Disgraced referee

Main article: 2007 NBA betting scandal

• In 2007, NBA referee Tim Donaghy resigned after allegations surfaced that he had secretly provided inside information to bookies and gamblers in exchange for money. He was later found guilty and sentenced to 15 months in prison.