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Thu 04 Apr 2007Referee's punishment seems to be rather foulAmerica at Large:Thirty years later I may be conflating the memory, but I seem to recall that I covered the first NBA game Joey Crawford worked. If not, it was one of the earliest.He was a 25-year-old rookie referee, and the word quickly spread that he was the son of legendary National League baseball umpire Shag Crawford.