2k23 Real Referees Project

I'm opening this topic hoping there is a lot of us who would like to have expanded game realism with real referees.
By following the community for the last couple of editions of NBA2K, I realized the biggest issue for cyberface creators was the lack of good reference pictures.
As I'm not one of the creators, I'll do my best to provide here good reference pictures hoping that one of many cyberface creators around here will be willing to deliver to the community fresh real ref's cyberface pack.

Female refs:

LAUREN HOLTKAMP

Photo 1 - https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1442888006/photo/utah-jazz-v-washington-wizards.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=epFjoXE7jkwz1KtULt7-VYDdeq0Va2Vij_n3ofw5NPQ=
Photo 2 - https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1231622210/photo/brooklyn-nets-v-houston-rockets.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=X44cUGXwBKBNLrx3y6-u7TfXCWiSz3C4o1pq7dxYJXI=
Photo 3 - https://media.gettyimages.com/id/461879670/photo/dallas-mavericks-v-sacramento-kings.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=Qup5LAPQRlCv5SIV9amowMyGeHySu9IF0d4w9nCd9a0=

ASHLEY MOYER-GLEICH

Photo 1 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-ashley-moyer-gleich-looks-on-during-the-game-news-photo/1232040856
Photo 2 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-ashley-moyer-gleich-waits-for-a-play-during-the-news-photo/1197660858
Photo 3 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-ashley-moyer-gleich-looks-on-during-a-game-between-news-photo/1178631623

JENNA SCHROEDER

Photo 1 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-jenna-schroeder-and-suyash-mehta-talk-during-a-game-news-photo/1237634111
Photo 2 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-jenna-schroeder-looks-on-during-the-game-between-news-photo/1231630784
Photo 3 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-jenna-schroeder-looks-on-during-the-game-between-news-photo/1236207669


Male refs:

TONY BROTHERS

Photo 1 - https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1236459169/photo/new-orleans-pelicans-v-sacramento-kings.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=gPGGhlyrN1XJWSjLZi9BsA1LgdjJm7kSuFcSNJgZrZs=
Photo 2 - https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1193654078/photo/cleveland-cavaliers-v-los-angeles-lakers.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=8gLBrsVKul--OC8SYj5kUelY90usXSUelYZKd104rh4=
Photo 3 - https://media.gettyimages.com/id/938365374/photo/cleveland-cavaliers-v-brooklyn-nets.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=n_wOvuW326EcZa6YBNFangm4SDx9cVimhnSPwcEm4uE=

BILL KENNEDY

Photo 1 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-bill-kennedy-looks-on-during-the-game-between-the-news-photo/1238274331
Photo 2 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-bill-kennedy-looks-on-during-the-game-between-the-news-photo/931630820
Photo 3 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-bill-kennedy-officiates-the-game-between-the-new-news-photo/1239242926

MARC DAVIS

Photo 1 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-marc-davis-makes-a-call-during-phoenix-suns-vs-la-news-photo/1232714478
Photo 2 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-marc-davis-during-the-toronto-raptors-nba-game-news-photo/888660854
Photo 3 - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/referee-marc-davis-looks-on-during-the-game-between-the-los-news-photo/1228661611

Official referees' website where you can find some good but smaller headshot photos of these refs - https://www.nbra.net/nba-officials/referee-biographies/

Looking forward for feedback and also for an cyberface creator willing to make these!

Great idea! It's strange that 2K hasn't bothered to license real referees yet.

I would love older "retro" referees as well.

Great idea! It's strange that 2K hasn't bothered to license real referees yet.

I would love older "retro" referees as well.

I hope at some point they do that and they add a TNT broadcast package for a realistic presentation just like EA did with ESPN.

It would be nice to see old retro referees!And they write a lot of different information here and here!

Last edited by WilliammLesly on Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:45 pm, edited 5 times in total.

Great job, MB22

I just need to add and repeat - I didn't do anything except share these reference photos. Unfortunately, I'm not a cyberface creator/modder (although I wish I'm), and I can't turn them into cyberfaces myself... Tried earlier with some players but found it to be too difficult...
So I really hope someone who knows how to make them will deliver this much-needed project to all of us here.