NBA Referee Profile
Dee Kantner
Dee Kantner has worked 247 NBA games, and the numbers show a referee who lets play run. Her personal foul rate sits 1.8% below league average at 43.8 per game — she is not looking to blow the whistle, and pace-friendly totals bettors should note that. Free throw attempts tell a slightly different story at 51.4 per game, running 2.0% above league average, meaning when contact does get called, it tends to happen near the basket where it counts. The most significant number on her sheet is a 63.6% home team win rate. The league-wide home win rate historically hovers in the low-to-mid 50s, so 63.6% is not noise — it is a persistent lean that makes road teams a harder sell on the spread when Kantner is on the crew. Bettors tracking referee assignments should weight her crew assignments heavily toward home-side value and away from over-reliant game scripts.
Career stats
Games officiated
247
Personal fouls / g
43.8
-1.8% vs league
Free throw attempts / g
51.4
+2.0% vs league
Combined points / g
192.7
+1.2% vs league
Home vs visitor
Home teams win 63.6% of games officiated by Dee. That's well above the league's ~57% home-court baseline — a signal his crews lean home when the game is close.
Recent seasons
| Season | Games | PF/g | FTA/g | PTS/g | Home W% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-02 | 50 | 41.1 | 47.6 | 194.3 | 64.0% |
| 2000-01 | 57 | 41.9 | 48.7 | 189.3 | 66.7% |
Top team splits
Teams Dee has officiated the most, and how those franchises have fared under him.
| Team | Games | W-L | W% | Pace | PTS/g |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NJN | 24 | 13-11 | 54.2% | 91.8 | 94.5 |
| MEM | 23 | 4-19 | 17.4% | 91.4 | 91.0 |
| PHO | 23 | 13-10 | 56.5% | 92.1 | 96.6 |
| MIL | 22 | 11-11 | 50.0% | 91.0 | 100.1 |
| DET | 20 | 14-6 | 70.0% | 93.4 | 103.1 |
| SAC | 20 | 10-10 | 50.0% | 94.6 | 101.5 |
| POR | 19 | 12-7 | 63.2% | 88.2 | 95.1 |
| GSW | 19 | 4-15 | 21.1% | 92.3 | 90.9 |
| CHA | 18 | 10-8 | 55.6% | 89.7 | 92.3 |
| WAS | 17 | 8-9 | 47.1% | 90.9 | 92.1 |
| IND | 16 | 7-9 | 43.8% | 91.7 | 98.0 |
| OKC | 16 | 9-7 | 56.3% | 92.0 | 98.1 |
| PHI | 15 | 9-6 | 60.0% | 90.9 | 95.1 |
| SAS | 15 | 10-5 | 66.7% | 88.6 | 95.7 |
| BOS | 14 | 2-12 | 14.3% | 93.9 | 94.2 |
| LAL | 13 | 11-2 | 84.6% | 93.2 | 103.2 |
| LAC | 12 | 2-10 | 16.7% | 89.1 | 88.6 |
| ORL | 12 | 7-5 | 58.3% | 93.0 | 97.5 |
| UTA | 12 | 9-3 | 75.0% | 87.4 | 94.3 |
| ATL | — | — | — | — | — |