Richard Jefferson said it himself regarding jumping in and refereeing an NBA Summer League game between the New York Knicks and Portland Trail Blazers : He did it because “not many people would dare to put themselves in this position” and it would help as a broadcaster.
So of course we shouldn’t have expected him to be perfect, to get every call right, and there was one that got overturned by a fellow official — an out-of-bounds whistle in which he gave possession to the Knicks when the other ref said it should go to the Blazers. He was overruled.
Check out the moment in which the crowd went nuts before it was overturned:
