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NBA to test bigger ref crews in D-League

The laboratory that is the NBA D-League is open for business again.

The NBA will use its farm league to experiment for nine games with four- and five-person officiating crews starting later this month in an attempt to see if more eyes can create a better game.

The expanded crews will be deployed in different manners over the experimental phase, which is a nine-game stretch of home games for the Long Island Nets, the farm team of the Brooklyn Nets.

“I like the way our game is now and I don’t know if adding officials is going to change it or improve it but if it does, let’s go for it,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said Monday.