Offspring of officials

JRutledge

Thanks Bad, that helps me and I am sure others understand who we are talking about.

Peace

tomegun

Tommy Nunez Sr - retired NBA ref
Tommy Nunez Jr - NBA ref

Raymond

tomegun wrote
Tommy Nunez Sr - retired NBA ref
Tommy Nunez Jr - NBA ref

forgot about Father & Son Garretson's in the NBA. Does Ronny Nunn have a son working?

Also, David Guthrie (rookie NBA ref) is son of John Guthrie, former supervisor of officials for SEC/OVC/et al (also coached Georgia pre-Dominique Wilkins)

Is this what happens in this forum after March Madness?:o

ChuckElias

Hank Nichols' son is a big-time D1 official.

refTN

Don't forget the whole Crawford family. Joey, an NBA ref, and his brother (don't know his name) is a MLB umpire. Their dad before them, Shag Crawford was an MLB umpire. What a family of officials. I wish mine was like that.

BktBallRef

Jerry Crawford.

Wonder how many of these guys would have made the big time if it hadn't been for the old man?

Jurassic Referee

BktBallRef wrote
Jerry Crawford.

Wonder how many of these guys would have made the big time if it hadn't been for the old man?

Earl Strom always took credit for getting Joey Crawford into the NBA.

sleebo

John Clougherty has a son who officiates D-1 basketball. His name is Tim Clougherty. Doug Hampton, a former SEC official, has two sons who officiate in D-1, John and Brent.

The New Guy

Ken Mauer (NBA ref) has a brother, who I believe did the D-II championship game a few weeks ago. The brother also runs the shot clock at Timberwolves games, I think.

refTN

I also believe that Ken Mauer, an NBA ref, has a son or a younger brother who works college ball.

AZ_REF

Can't forget Ed Rush who was a longtime NBA official, then Commisioner breifly, then Head of referee development, and now I believe he's a group supervisor.

His son Eddie F Rush is in his 18th season in the NBA.

EDIT-

Doh! I knew Ed's son had something to do with officiating and the NBA so I put two and two together and grabbed his name off the nba ref's website. I humbly apologize. Thanks for the correction. I thought it was odd that Ed's son had been in the NBA for that long but hey, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Dribble

Careful...Ed T. Rush is Caucasian and Eddie F. Rush is African-American, so no relation there.

Ed T. Rush's son, Michael, runs the Coast to Coast Camp.

Dribble

On the Canadian scene, Ron Foxcroft who was the inventor of the Fox40 whistle has two sons, Steve and Dave, who are officials. Steve has worked numerous Canadian basketball finals and is a member of the Buffalo Bills' Chain Gang, while Dave is a CFL (Canadian Football League) official.

JRutledge

Dribble wrote
Careful...Ed T. Rush is Caucasian and Eddie F. Rush is African-American, so no relation there.

Ed T. Rush's son, Michael, runs the Coast to Coast Camp.

Let us not start that conversation again. 🙂

Peace

BktBallRef

AZ_REF wrote
Can't forget Ed Rush who was a longtime NBA official, then Commisioner breifly, then Head of referee development, and now I believe he's a group supervisor.

His son Eddie F Rush is in his 18th season in the NBA.

LOL! No, Eddie F. is not his son.

AZ_REF

Doh! I knew Ed's son had something to do with officiating and the NBA so I put two and two together and grabbed his name off the nba ref's website. I humbly apologize.

JugglingReferee

JRutledge wrote
Let us not start that conversation again. 🙂

Peace

Are Ed T and Eddie F friends, acquaintances, or mere colleauges? 😛

Snake~eyes

JugglingReferee wrote
Are Ed T and Eddie F friends, acquaintances, or mere colleauges? :p

Who knows but I heard they look alike. 😕

Nevadaref

1. Jack Ditty is the supervisor of the WCC conference. His son Ken works that conference and a couple others. He did the conf. tourney champ game this year.

2. Tim Higgins son is John Higgins.

Corndog89

My youngest daughter called a season of little kids b-ball at a YMCA a couple of years ago...does that count?🙂