Ed T. Rush (born 1942) is a former professional basketball referee.
[1][2] In 1973, he left for the American Basketball Association but returned to the NBA when the ABA merged with that league in 1976.
[3] Rush became the NBA's director of officiating in 1998,[4] and served in that position until 2003 when he was succeeded by Ronnie Nunn.
On April 1, 2013, CBS Sports reported that during a meeting before the 2013 Pac-12 men's basketball tournament Rush had jokingly offered $5,000 or a trip to Cancún to referees who would properly handle the antics of Arizona head coach Sean Miller, who was called for a controversial technical foul in Arizona's semi-final 2-point loss to UCLA, the first technical foul Miller had received that season.
Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott responded to the allegations in a statement saying that the reports had been investigated and that the conference believed Rush had made the offer "in jest.