Steve Javie

Steve Javie (; born January 17, 1955) is an American retired professional basketball referee who is currently an analyst with ESPN and a Catholic permanent deacon. He refereed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from the 1986–87 NBA season to the 2010–11 season, officiating 1,514 regular season, 243 playoff, and 23 NBA Finals games (a total of 1,780 games); he is one of few NBA referees to officiate 1,000 games. According to Referee magazine, Javie was a highly regarded referee in the NBA, and he was respected within the officiating community for his game management skills. He was also notable during his NBA officiating career for his quickness in assessing technical fouls. As a prospect in baseball, Javie signed with the Baltimore Orioles minor league organization.

Javie resides in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Baseball umpire After his baseball playing career was over at age 22, Javie began working at Johnson & Johnson in their baby products line. and Jack Madden In the sequence of events that followed, Javie ejected Ellison after protesting the call,

During the 2002–03 NBA season, Javie was fined $1,000 by the league for a verbal altercation with Pat Riley, then-head coach of the Miami Heat.

In April 2003, Javie was the referee in Michael Jordan's final game of his fifteen-year NBA career. During a game break towards the end of regulation, Javie congratulated Jordan on his career and told him he was a "class act". Other referees were sentenced to probation or a period of house arrest, and ordered to pay the taxes.

On June 22, 2017, Javie was one of four new inductees into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in Troy, Michigan. He was the recipient of Sports Faith International's Father Smyth Award on May 22, 2021.

He is a permanent deacon in the Catholic Church.

Media career In June 2012, it was announced that Javie would join NBA on ESPN, serving as a rules analyst working marquee games during the season and throughout the NBA Playoffs. Javie also appears on ESPN programming to discuss controversial referee occurrences.