NBA referee ended the legendary career – Virtual Poland

WP.PL | in 2014-08-20 (14:09) 28 minutes ago

AFP

74-year-old Dick Bavett will no longer be running around the NBA. The best recognized basketball referee in the world after 39 years, decided to end his career.
 
 Bavett began work in 1975. Sędziowanym his first game was a duel New York Knicks and Boston Celtics. For over four decades, he led 270 games in the playoffs and 27-fold refereed games in the NBA Finals.
 

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gained fame in 2007 when former NBA star Charles Barkley challenged him to a duel race. Barkley jokingly complained Bavecie senile age and put them to win basketball with him sprint from the end line to end line. Bavett took up the challenge and during the NBA All Star Weekend defeated Barkley.
 

– I am most proud of the fact that he never screwed up. Whether it was a friendly match, the match of the regular season, I always took my to where I had to be and never explained the disease or cold – said Bavett, who led the 2635 consecutive games of the regular season, which of course is the NBA record.
 

After retiring Bavett, New Yorker, settle permanently in Ocala, Florida, where it mixes together with his wife Paulette.

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