The interesting part was who my partner was...

[Ref_in_Alberta]

Just wanted to share an interesting experience I had last night.

I was assigned to work a couple of the local men's league quarter finals of their league last night. The games themselves were the typical men's league games. Some complaining and whining, nothing unusual or "T" worthy. In fact for the level of play the games were uneventful.

I have refereed the game for 24 years now and I have be fortunate in my career to have worked games with teams from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Ukraine and USA playing the game but until last night I had never worked with a non North American official.

I worked the games with a gentleman from Paris, France. This guy had come over to Canada from Europe for his professional career in the oil and gas industry. Very nice guy, called a good game, no problems communicating - he spoke heavily accented english. I would describe his mechanics as "euro-flair" but you knew what he was calling. FIBA rules and in Canada all the calls were made in metric and both English and French.

All in all a pretty fun night.