Kids rec league

[RefsNCoaches]

That's pretty cool. Years ago...when Isaiah Thomas was the coach of the Pacers, I worked a local rec league with a friend....we had one of Thomas' daughters on a team...I was hoping he would pop off so I could say I ran him but he was pretty cool...

[Mark Padgett]

Maurice Lucas had his two sons - Maurice Jr. - called "Reece" and his younger son David play in our league. My son went through school with Reece. Maurice didn't coach, but came to a lot of games to watch his sons. He displayed excellent sportsmanship and never said anything negative to any of the refs. Frankly, I wish all the fans had behaved like him.

There was one game where the other team was going to shoot free throws. Reece was in the bottom lane space. The player shot the ball, it missed and Reece jumped up, grabbed the rebound and kind of growled loudly while swinging the ball back and forth. Then he realized the shooter had one more shot coming. Maurice yelled at him from the bleachers, "REECE - GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME!!!" He then said in a normal tone of voice, "Nice board, though."

I was working the game and, like most of the fans there, cracked up.