An Honest Talk about NBA Officiating and The Rule Changes Over the Years

Mind the Game

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🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of Mind the Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash. In today’s conversation we’ll be talking about the rule changes over the years including the gather step, rip through and many others. Plus the guys talk about the difficulty of being an NBA official in 2026. And finally we answer your fan questions.

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0:00.0	I was on X, like a few months ago, and a referee had a mixtape.
0:08.0	Stop.
0:09.0	Stop.
0:10.0	I swear to God, I gotta find it.
0:12.0	Stop.
0:13.0	Did you see that?
0:14.0	You didn't see the referee had a mixtape, and he had a music behind it of him making calls,
0:19.0	and it like blurred into another call. What level was this rough? He was running down. He was running down. It was like he had to be middle school basketball. But I tell you, this shit was fucking hilarious. Y'all pull this up just now? Let's go. The guy said it to it. Look, this got... Uh, to the beat. This is like middle school or freshman?
0:39.3	It's like freshman. It's like freshman. It's IMG.
0:42.3	No nonsense. No nonsense.
0:46.3	He was like this.
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:49.3	That was bullshit, man.
0:50.3	You thought that was bullshit.
0:52.3	I was dying, crying, laughing at this dude, man.
0:55.0	That's my...
0:56.0	Boom, right on beat.
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