So even if the players are now getting more of the revenue, rest assured that management is still getting paid, what about NBA referees? Has their pay been commiserate with league revenue? The NBA referees have a full-time job during the 8 month season. As we know, each NBA team plays 82 games during the regular season. This latest information we were able to find is hoe couple years old, but these numbers has been referenced several times on many different sites. And inOfficiating.