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How To Become a Basketball Official
Basketball officiating is great if you are interested in being constantly active and closely involved with the game action. Basketball is also a sport you can officiate nearly year-round via school, club, AAU and amateur contests and therefore has a higher earning potential than many other sports.
Why Real Officials Love What They Do
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You Meet All Types
You meet just about every type of person there is and you have to learn to deal with all of them in a manner that shows that you deserve to be called an “official.” You meet cheaters, schemers, geniuses and idiots. You meet talented, mediocre and middle-of-the-road people. No matter who you meet, you have to deal with them as people who deserve the best from you. No matter what age, talent, salary, race or sex, you must give your all. You are expected to be perfect and improve after that.
Rick EberhardtBuffalo, N.Y., a 36-year basketball official
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It is the Best Seat in the House
I love officiating because of the challenge. It is by far the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. Unfortunately, we miss plays every night, but the challenge of trying to be perfect and get every play right is why I love it so much. There is no better feeling then walking back into the locker room with your partners and knowing that we worked together as a team and that we gave everything we had for those 48 minutes.
Ed MalloyNBA referee from Aston, Pa.
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It Has Toughened Me Up
Because of officiating I see clearly that life moments often are not about winning or even losing. It’s about being the best you can be in that moment and accepting the outcome. Sometimes I may not like the outcome, but I accept it knowing I did my best and move forward. I’ve learned how to deal with difficult crowds; I have been called things my mother did not name me. I have watched winners lose and losers win. Each year I learn something that makes me a better official and a better person. Each year I meet people that inspire me and people who serve my life no purpose, but I learn from all of it.
Bertha MooreHigh school basketball official from Baltimore, Md.
Things To Consider
Physical Demands
Basketball officials are moving constantly. There are no opportunities for rest while play is ongoing because basketball officials need to adjust their positions constantly to see the action as player positions shift. You will run between 1 and 4 miles during a competitive basketball game. Most basketball games take place indoors, but because of the activity level, hydration is something basketball officials take seriously. As the players you’re officiating get older and the competitive levels increase, the physical demands also increase.
Mental Demands
Basketball officials work with one or sometimes two or three partners. You will shift between the lead position and the trail or center position many times per game, and thus, your responsibilities will change constantly. Basketball officials are also closer to the players, coaches and the fans than in other sports and must be able to focus and ignore distractions. You will also need to be able to handle hearing verbal criticism from the stands and sometimes communicate with coaches. Teamwork and support for and from your partners is crucial to success in basketball officiating.
Training
Basketball requires officials to move to different positions around the court, and be responsible for watching different parts of the action depending on where they are. To maximize your success, you’ll have to learn all these positions well. You can train yourself with rulebooks and manuals from the Referee Training Center, but you should also join a local officials association where you can expect lectures, demonstrations and exercises that will prepare you for what you’ll face.
Different organizations have different requirements, but most require at least attendance at a meeting to go over any current rule changes. Additional requirements may be a written test with a minimum passing score, payment of fees for the upcoming season and association meeting attendance.
Equipment
Polished, black, athletic shoes.
Black socks.
Black beltless slacks.
A striped V-neck shirt no collar.
A whistle and a lanyard.
Estimated cost: $200. Once you join a local officiating association, there may be veteran officials who are willing to give or sell you “hand–me–downs” to help you get geared up at a reduced cost.
Game Fees
Game fees vary widely based on the players’ age group, competitive level and the state you officiate in. The fees range from $20-$35 for youth games and $45-$150 for competitive high school games. To maximize your income, you can work a combination of levels several days a week, including weekend tournaments where you can work games all day. You can also work adult amateur, club and AAU basketball year-round to make reliable income. A basketball official working youth, high school and adult amateur games, with a full schedule, can make several hundred dollars per week outside their normal jobs. College officials make more and game fees increase with the level of competition. Many high level college officials and professional officials do not have other jobs, and live on their officiating income.
Certification
Here’s the path for starting and continuing your officiating career:
Youth Level
Many officials start at the youth level. Contact your local recreation department leaders. Your local association should also help you make contacts to get games. Parks & Rec departments offer youth and adult games in many cities and you can potentially work multiple games per day on the weekends for schools and independent organizations, enhancing your earning potential.
High School
After working youth games, you may feel you have the skills and confidence to work higher levels of competition. You may also start at this level if you have a good grasp of the rules and/or experience as a player. For jr. high games, ask your association leader or contact your school district. For high school games, you’ll need to work with an assigner through your local association. Any work with sanctioned school games requires you to be registered through your state, to prove you’re competent.
The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is the nation’s governing body for high school athletics. Through them you can get all the information you need from your state to register and start the process to work High School sports.
Begin your high school basketball officiating journey at highschoolofficials.com
In most cases, your state association can put you in contact with a local officials’ association. Local associations assign games, many times offer mentoring programs and assist in training.
High school athletic directors, association assigners and other officials can also get you games.
Plan to attend local camps and clinics. They are focused on helping officials learn and improve.
College
College basketball officiating is highly competitive. Officials with one year of youth experience would most likely not be a candidate even though there isn’t a designated number of years of experience to reach the college ranks. Obtaining a conference schedule and advancement within a conference is based on the league or conference. When first trying to enter a college conference, talk with officials who are currently in the conference. They can give you valuable information such as the conference commissioner and officiating camps to attend. College athletic directors or sports information directors can also be helpful.
You may start your career in the NAIA, work a NCAA Division III conference, advance to a Division II schedule, then on to a smaller Division I conference and culminate with a major Division I schedule. Attending officiating camps is an important tool to improve your officiating. Not only can you learn from experienced veterans, you can be seen by those who assign games at that level, most often conference commissioners or officiating supervisors.
The collegiate national governing bodies:
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) PO Box 6222 Indianapolis, IN 46206-6222 317-917-6222
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) 120 W. 12th Street Suite 700 Kansas City, MO 64105 816-595-8000
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) PO Box 7305 Colorado Springs, CO 80933- 7305 719-590-9788
Professional
The NBA and WNBA are two of the world’s premier sports and entertainment enterprises; a diverse group of high performing individuals delivering joy and excitement to hundreds of millions of basketball fans all over the world. It should be no surprise that much of our success depends on the Referees who ensure the integrity of the game and a forum where player’s skills, team dynamics, passion and dedication determine game outcomes.
The NBA and WNBA recruit referees from around the globe to become part of our team, but also to provide those who want to pursue this exciting career with insight into how they can develop their skills to achieve professional-level officiating excellence.
The NBA and WNBA review candidates based on expertise of officiating in live events. Prospective officials should contact any of these organizations to begin their professional journey. Candidates are evaluated by the NBA Scouting Group.
NCAA & Conference Camps
High School
Intramurals/Recreation
College (all Levels)
Pro Am
International
National Try Out
Please refer to nbaofficials.com for further information.
National Association of Sports Officials
You may also consider joining NASO, the only nation-wide officials support organization. As a member-driven community; NASO exists to unite, celebrate, develop and protect all officials so that they can reach their goals and take pride in their contributions to the benefits that sports provide society.
Learn more about NASO at NASO.org.
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The situation in our basketball is such that there are problems not only with the emergence of new competitive players and coaches, but also with referees. Our arbitrators are currently practically absent at the top world and continental championships.
I have heard questions more than once, and the site periodically receives requests about how to become a representative of this profession in Russia? Where to start, where to study, how to get practice, and then a license and appointments for serious matches and improve your skills? Today we will try to sort out these issues. Not everyone can become professional players and coaches, but wants to stay in basketball, so why not take the refereeing path.
First, let's decide on a license. It is issued for 1 year and is required only for servicing matches of the Russian Championship. To get it, you need to pass 3 exams:
1. Basketball Rules and Interpretations (at least 20 correct answers must be given for 25 questions). 2. Regulations of the championship and superiority of Russia. 3. Metronome physical fitness test.
Top judges, and there are about 120 of them, who regularly serve the championships of the Premier League, Super League (women and men), pass the rules twice a year, and physical training - the Metronome test 1 time. Those. if they take a regional seminar in the fall, they are admitted to the central seminar, and they take the same exams there. Those who successfully pass them receive a license for a year.
In January, a central off-season seminar is held, which highlights changes in the rules, corrects mistakes, sets some criteria and passes a theoretical exam only according to the rules and a running standard for physical training "Metronome" for field judges. If the current judge does not pass the winter exam, then he is not allowed to the second half of the season. Such cases happen.
Where to start? It is necessary, of course, to start with city competitions - first for children, then for students, for adults. In many regions there are Schools of the Young Arbiter, where classes are held free of charge. Novice judges go through a certain course and then, over time, begin to be attracted to the games of the children's championship of the city. After a person gains experience and practice, the referee committee of the regional federation recommends him to the championship of Russia, but there is also a selection system that allows children to referee competitions Championships of Russia. Further step by step, year after year on the way to the Super League, Premier League, VTB League. and FIBA.
Where to get knowledge? One of the sites that is suitable for obtaining up-to-date theoretical knowledge on basketball refereeing is ReferyPro. ru . This information portal contains the latest information on refereeing in Russia and the world. There are a lot of interesting and multifaceted things there: methodological materials, rules, video clips and recordings of seminars. The official representation of VKONTAKTE of this unique basketball portal for beginners, professional referees, as well as for all basketball fans is located at vk.com/referypro . The ReferyPro website was created by the School of Young Referees (SMA), headed by its leader - an international category referee and the head of the educational and methodological commission of the refereeing department of the RFB Fedor Borisovich Dmitriev with the support of the Moscow Regional Basketball Federation (MOFB).
In what regions are SMAs held? In addition to Moscow and the Moscow Region, these are St. Petersburg, Samara, Pskov, Omsk, Izhevsk, Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Khabarovsk, Rostov, Krasnodar, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg and some other cities. In particular, in Moscow, free lessons are held on Tuesdays. In the Moscow region - on Tuesdays, Fridays at the Moscow Basketball Federation or at games. But all this is still functioning separately, there is no centralized and organized work yet. A number of European countries already have well-established training programs for judges, while we are only on the way to this.
What is our representation in Europe? Last year we had about 15 FIBA referees. This includes 12 FIBA referees from Russia. Two years ago, the Euroleague was served by three judges: Semen Ovinov, Ilya Putenko and Alexey Davydov. Then only Semyon remained, although he gets more Eurocup matches. In addition, FIBA has now changed the system. It has become similar to football - the national federation, by its rating, together with FIBA, determines the circle of referees who are worthy to work at FIBA matches. They must comply with the requirements of the European, national championship and have no violations.
What refereeing events are coming up? In the near future there will be a departure of young judges for a seminar in Sweden by a delegation of 12 people. It will be a ScaniaCup tournament. In May, the educational and methodological commission of the Department of Professional Refereeing, together with the Moscow Regional Basketball Federation, will hold two camps on the basis of the championship of the Moscow Region among boys and girls at the sports base in Pokrovsky. Judges will be invited from all regions of Russia, as well as from Belarus, maybe from Kazakhstan. This will be the 10th such camp in 4 years. In June-July, there will be a trip to the clinic of referees in the NBA or the NCAA. Fedor Dmitriev, together with one of our judges, will go to study and exchange experience with those who hold this event. This will be part of the work of the educational and methodological commission. This happened already in 2016. Plus, in June, at the invitation of the Basketball Federation of Kazakhstan, for the third time a large camp is planned in Astana to work mainly with young referees. There will be 4 days of workshop and 3 days of work on the site with feedback and video analysis of each judge.
Fedor Dmitriev shared about the work of the School of the Young Arbiter and his mission:
“Now it is most relevant and effective for me to work with young people - from 14 to 25-30 years old. To lead the continuity of generations and prepare young cadres in the right direction, who will be chosen by the federation to serve the matches of the National Championship. Recently, together with Evgeny Ostrovsky and Alexey Davydov, we successfully passed the exams for the FIBA national instructor. Therefore, we would like to pass on the knowledge we have gained to the next generations. As the chairman of the WMC and the head of the School of the Young Arbiter of the Moscow Region, I consider it my task not only to competently educate young people, but also to control the correct implementation. Now I am adjusting my training program in order to involve young guys more, so that they not only listen, but do it themselves under our control. This is the most basic thing at this time, and this is what FIBA is now demanding.
We try to set the required criteria so that they understand the difference between the mentalities of a Russian person and a European. After all, it is important not only to know the rules of refereeing, you need to correctly apply them. FIBA itself is constantly engaged in the training program for young referees, but we need to adapt their recommendations to our country in accordance with the requirements of European and international competitions.”
The best young judges from all regions of the country travel to Prifib clinics - seminars throughout the year. Now the Department of Professional Refereeing has developed a mentoring program, according to which 10 young referees from the TOP-50 best referees in Russia by rating are assigned mentors from among five current FIBA referees.
Each year, the educational and methodological commission prepares two manuals for various types of training of judges: psychological, physical, psycho-physiological; on communication and interaction; methodological recommendations and practical advice. 6 such manuals have already been issued. We get positive feedback from them. it is useful and we will move in that direction.
Another important task that faces us as teachers who should train referees is to develop and shape simple human qualities so that the referee, in addition to fixing fouls and violations, can understand basketball, the profession and the complexity of the work of the coach and players. In a word - be human! This is very relevant at the present time."
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What is our representation in Europe? Last year we had about 15 FIBA referees. This includes 12 FIBA referees from Russia. Two years ago, the Euroleague was served by three judges: Semen Ovinov, Ilya Putenko and Alexey Davydov. Then only Semyon remained, although he gets more Eurocup matches. In addition, FIBA has now changed the system. It has become similar to football - the national federation, by its rating, together with FIBA, determines the circle of referees who are worthy to work at FIBA matches. They must meet the requirements of the European, national championship and have no violations.
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A Ukrainian who has worked in the NBA for 15 years: “In America, no one gives a fuck where you are from! Do your job!"
The NBA is not only an American league, but a whole international conglomerate where the best in their field are brought together. Not only basketball players, but also pros in their industries.
Ukrainian Sergey Khmelevsky worked as a massage therapist for the Philadelphia 76th NBA team (Sixers) for 15 years. Next to the legendary Allen Iverson. Before moving to the USA, for many years he was a coach-masseur of the legendary Kyiv handball Spartak Igor Turchin. The master did not really want to let Khmelevsky go to America.
It's been a year since Khmelevsky left the NBA, and in an interview with Sport Arena he spoke about life in America, salaries, the National Basketball Association system and scientific progress.
— The main message that I want to convey to my countrymen from Ukraine is that we underestimate ourselves. If you are a professional in your field, then you will be in demand both in Kyiv and in America. I can say this with my example.
- How is it even possible that when you joined the Philadelphia 76s team (2004) there was no full-time massage therapist? It seems to us from Ukraine that in the NBA the space level and all the details are calculated.
- Massage is very underrated and not up to par in the US. They prefer "physical therapists", who can only "massage" the calf muscle, but not make a complex massage. Club leaders believed that massage was the lowest level. In Soviet times, there was a whole profession of a coach-masseur. This is what they studied at the institutes. And the doctors prescribed massage treatment. In the US, it was a dark forest. I was the first professional massage therapist on the Philadelphia-76th NBA team.
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— We even have two massage therapists in most football clubs…
— We have always used football or other sports as an example. Igor Evdokimovich Turchin, when he found out that I wanted to leave for the USA, swore at me and said that I was a traitor to my homeland. And then he hugged and offered to thump. He says: "Serge, if you work with me, then you can work with anyone. " I remember it to tears now. And we say, because I mean colleagues from the former Union countries who worked in the American leagues. Volodya Shulman recommended me to the NBA. He was a legend with the Boston Celtics for 35 years. We knew each other from handball. When I moved to the USA, I worked as a massage therapist in a squash club. In the "76th" they were looking for a massage therapist. The head coach of the team worked with Shulman. So he advised me. At the interview, I first spoke about myself, and then offered to do a massage so that everyone understood my level. Anyone can tell, but doing it is another matter.
— How are Ukrainians treated in the NBA?
- And nobody cares where you are from. Ukrainian or Colombian, if you play, do your job. In America - fuck everyone! The main thing is to do business. Even though Slava Medvedenko won the NBA with the Lakers, he was still drawn home. How many communicated with him, I felt it. America is not his country. But let's say Vitalik Potapenko is another story. They were afraid to play against him! They called it "Ukrainian train". After skirmishes with him, the players were bruised. Potapenko stayed to live and work in the USA - he was an assistant in Cleveland, and now in the Memphis Grizzlies.
Let's take the younger generation: Swie Mykhailyuk - simply score and there will be no questions for you. Nobody cares where you are from. America is also called the cauldron where all nations get along. Yes, there is a lot of racism, but if you do your job, no one cares what country you are from.
There was a funny moment about this topic. A new coach is coming - Doug Collins. And I completely forgot that he was in the team that lost at the Olympics-72 SRSR. I introduced myself - Sergey. He answered: “Sergey fakin Belov?” I say: "Sergey fakin Khmelevsky." And so far I have him Sergey Fakin Belov. This is old school.
- NBA - a league where everyone wants to work, plus a lot of intrigue and pitfalls. How will they last 15 years in the NBA?
- As my coach at the children's school used to say: "I took the ball - damn it." I was just doing my job. And there was no such thing as this work forever. Every year at the end of the season we had an interview. First, the management talks to the players about the personnel. Who like it, who don't. And how did Volodya Shulman work in Boston for 35 years? Serezha Chekmarev is still a hockey massage therapist for the Detroit Red Wings. There was also the legendary Asker Barcha from CSKA Moscow. Generally 50 years of work. Professionalism.
There are different situations. A player comes in and says, "I didn't sleep well and my neck hurts or my shoulder muscles hurt." If I say, “Most likely it’s not because you didn’t sleep well or a bad pillow, but because you’re quitting all the time and all that. This is fine!". And if I don’t relieve this spasm for him, he won’t come to me anymore and will say to his neighbor in the locker room: “My shoulder hurts in the morning, but Seryoga didn’t help, what kind of #whack is this?”. And so people lose their jobs if they don't know what to do.
— What is the most difficult part of this job?
- wear schedule. Flights, transfers. I don’t complain, but when a year has not worked, you ask yourself: “Why did I do this for so long?”. I left and now I sleep well. In American football, the main problem is concussion, hands break. And concussion affects the future. That in the NBA and NHL is a sleep problem. Because the schedule is very torn. 3 games in 4 days or 4 games in 7 days in different cities. The game, recovery procedures, and we can't leave until the basketball players talk to reporters, you get on the bus at 11 pm. (There, by the way, the media is now even more important than the medical staff. Until the guys give an interview, medical recovery does not begin. Everything is spelled out in the rules of the league).
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The longest way to the airport is 45 minutes in Toronto. You drive 45 minutes. Then customs, fly an hour, two, three. Then another bus. You go to the hotel, fall asleep at 3-4 o'clock, at 12 meeting, and they called you at 7 and woke you up. This is a feature, but I'm not the first. And many couldn't resist. I had a massage therapist from Brooklyn. He worked for 3 years and asked: “How do you do it? And why?". It's 7-9months of the year with your family you are on Skype. Let's just count the loads: the regular season is 82 games, plus there used to be 8 exhibition games before the season. Now they have been reduced to 4. This is somewhere around 85-86 + playoffs, about 100 games come out. Here is a minimum of 100 days you are not at home, plus preparatory training camps.
— How did your family feel about this?
— It's hard with a family, but work is work. And this work fed me and my family. But besides that, I had a second job. In one sports center I worked in parallel. When I came to the manager and said that I had finished with basketball, they answered me: “This is their loss, but our gain. ”
— Instead of you in Philadelphia, the 76s hired a girl as a massage therapist…
— Couldn't stand it for a long time. I don't know if she left on her own or if they left her. There is no substitute for experience. Experience and reputation. There's a trend in the league right now to hire masseuses. But this work is worn out, and not everyone can handle it. You can not go to all the whims of the players.
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- What are you talking about?
- Sometimes players call at night, give me a massage. We must respect, we are not servants. If he wakes up at two in the morning because he has a muscle spasm, I will react. And if you just took a walk and thought up a massage for the night, then I'm sorry. Most importantly the players are not afraid and do not live their lives. There were other situations. A youngster comes and says: “Give me a massage!”. I say that before the game I give massages only to the starting lineup and veterans. And in the locker room begins to nail me. So veteran Jason Richardson told him: “Listen, stop it, because Sergey is right.” The guy came up and apologized. The whims could be: “Do it to me first, and push that one aside or come to my room, and not me to you.” In the locker room, it is immediately clear who is shit and who is not. If you respect all the rules, then everything is fine. And if you tell something to someone and no one yet ... Everything in this life must be earned. If you want a massage, make an appointment, I will come not in 3, but in 4 hours. But 2 hours before the game is the time of the starting lineup and veterans. The most important thing is not to be afraid, to live without fear.
— How is that?
— Don't be afraid to do your job as you see fit. And what someone tells you is like that. A person has a sense of fear, but when you come and fawn over Iverson or Messi, you are no longer a person and not a professional. As soon as he turned off the righteous path and began to fawn before people.
- And how did you, man, work in the women's handball team of Spartak for so many years?
— In the 80s, our girls from the team often met Dynamo football players. And now the Dynamo player Vanya Yaremchuk once told me: “Seryoga, not everyone is not so lucky in work and life!” And laughed. I replied: “I come to work every day and do my professional duties.”
— In our sport, some actions are often performed “for luck”. Does the NBA have this?
— It's everywhere! Sergeer Rodriguez, a Spaniard, he also played in CSKA, now in Milan, was in my team and still remains my friend. We met, we sit at the table, we have lunch. He has a beard, I once asked him: “You came to the NBA without a beard, why is there such a beard now?” He replies: “The beard began to grow and some injuries stopped bothering me, I thought so and did not shave. ” And it's not that superstition. Each player in everyday life has his own chips. They eat at certain times and sleep at certain times. And one player, let's say, eats a certain food or drinks beetroot juice. And everything is calculated by the minutes before the game and training.
There was a situation where a player came in for an ankle taping. If the coach forgot that he is taping on the left foot and started on the right, there will be a scandal.
— How often do players cheat, invent illnesses?
— Why is the NBA good? Here everyone is minding their own business. And you don't have to think of anything. The player has something in pain, he goes to the head of the medical service. And now it's all quickly checked. 5 years ago, a company from Australia entered the league, which created its own agency of scientists and conducts a very strong examination of all medical issues. Athletes are under full control, they play and train with sensors, every step is monitored. This was not the case before. When I came to work in the team, in addition to the head coach, there were only 4 people of the medical staff: a physical training coach, a massage therapist, an athletic trainer (the person in charge of the medical part) and an assistant athletic trainer. Now there are a lot of people. Even reaches 10-12. I don't mind, but sometimes it's too much. There should be one chef in the kitchen, and there are a lot of them in the NBA now. The state is a little inflated, but this is a separate conversation. The owners have a lot of money, all billionaires.
Our owners bought the team 7 years ago and paid 285 million, and now the 76th club is worth about 2 billion. The owners are ready to invest money for development. Approaches are different. Even the Navy SEAL came to lecture the players on how to work through I can't.
— Scientific groups of teams developed before your eyes. How it was?
— New owners have come to Philadelphia and with them a new general manager, strong Houston Rockets analyst Sam Hinkey. It was he who brought a researcher who put the entire training process under a scientific basis. Basketball players began to train in special sensors. They began to control who works on what pulse. This is the health of the athlete and the progress of the team. But dry analytics figures will not replace the human factor.
- How much did it change the league in terms of the training process? In terms of parsing the opponent in terms of technology.
- Again, the question is not for me. We had meetings where we were told what and how we would do, I was a participant in a scientific symposium. We gathered all the teams and invited people who are experts in sleep and nutrition. They discussed how flights affect, how not only sports science can improve and protect an athlete from injuries and serious consequences. Big sport is not physical education. Every person going to training and playing risks their health and career.
— And what are these specialists?
- They make graphs, analyze how a person sleeps, etc. And according to the results of these daily studies, they determine what kind of load to give them, to let them play for 20 or 30 minutes. Suppose this was not the case during Iverson, he played as much as he wanted. It was at the discretion of the coach, he knew everyone, but not on the basis of science, but on the basis of sensations, he visually felt how much time to give the player.
- Science, medicine and proper recovery help players to play an incredible number of matches?
- Coach Doug Collins once said that for another 30 years the NBA played the same 82 games, the same back-to-back, only the basketball players did not have charter and own planes, the players calmly went on ordinary flights, how we traveled with handball Spartak — ordinary flights with ordinary people. And now the players have all the conditions, everyone has their own room, everything is scheduled for each player, given: here's a meal, lunch, here's a hotel, here's a bus, just play. Here you have a specially equipped plane, here you have sports medicine, science, masseurs. I think that in some cases it even indulges in something. They believe that this is how it should be, but they forget how it was before. They have everything to play their favorite game 100-200%. The league creates the best conditions for teams and players.
Are the players super professional?
- In most cases, yes. But there were different situations. One of the young basketball players ate fast food right in the locker room, the elder saw it. "What are you doing? There are 7.5 billion people on earth, millions play basketball, and everyone dreams of playing in the NBA. 30 teams of 15 players. 450 carefully selected basketball players! Many strong basketball players don't fit in the NBA and play in Europe or China! You are among the best and must fill the best gasoline in your body, ”he said.
90 percent of your body depends on nutrition, the rest is exercise. Previously, individual training was for fans of their craft, like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. Now individual lessons and approach to everyone is the norm. In addition to training, the player works individually: gym, recovery, procedures. All this takes 5-6 hours. And my working day took an average of 8 hours. After all, the staff arrives earlier and leaves later.
In order not to get a fine, one player, who is late for training, enters the training session with the driver of the emergency vehicle. The coach asks: “Where are you and what are you? And who is this? He replies: “I had a tire puncture, I brought a witness, otherwise you would not have believed it.” There were no video cameras back then. He called an emergency gang, they replaced his wheel, and says that he does not need to be fined.
- What is the specifics of the daily routine of a massage therapist who works in the NBA? How is your day?
— It all depends on whether it's a game day or a practice day. Training - usually training at 11:00, the medical staff who tap the players all gather 3 hours before the start of training. Then the players arrive - according to the schedule. Beginners first, veterans pull up later. Everyone tries to show up early to get some sort of short massage to prepare themselves for the workout. Then a workout.
I preferred to be at training with a towel when the floor gets wet so that someone doesn't fall, slip, wipe.
- During training, do you stand with a towel and look to get out, if anything?
Yes. Well, it's not just me, it's the entire medical staff.
— Why does an athlete need a massage? And what is the feature of your massage under a basketball player?
— Firstly, before training you warm up your muscles, they work every day, they quit. This is a preliminary, preparatory, warming up massage so that he feels that at the beginning of the training he could start 100% prepared. If you do not warm up the body, then you can easily get injured.
— How often did people get injured because they were not prepared? Or prepared incorrectly.
- There are no devices that can tell whether you are prepared or not. If a player on any team felt that the massage therapist did something wrong, then that person would not be on the team. This is the NBA and the best in their fields work here.
- Tell me, training and you are on the alert, and then what?
– After training, restorative massage, 2-3 hours of work. I gave you one training day. And in conditional 5-6 hours I am free.
Tell me about Allen Iverson. You were lucky to see the legendary basketball player in everyday life
- Iverson is a man of great talent and sparkling reaction. I have not seen a more efficient person who did not pay attention to any injuries and did not work with him. With little growth, Iverson has become one of the toughest players in the NBA. For a very long time, he believed that training was not important. The main thing is the game. And he even talked about it publicly.
But at one point the team was led by Larry Brown and was able to take Iverson to another level. Brown wanted Iverson to reconsider his attitude to training, not to underestimate their benefits. Iverson believed that he could play in any physical condition, even with an injury. Endured! After all, the game was everything to him. The best indicator is the game with Orlando, when he scored 60 points.
After the first quarter, when he scored in the 20s, I thought “wow, this is going to be interesting!”. In training, he could easily get up and score 70-100 free throws in a row. Already at the end of his period in our club, he began to change his attitude to training. In order to understand his psychology, you need to know his childhood. Iverson grew up without a father in a very difficult area, where there were constant problems with the law.
Despite his star status, I never had any problems with him. I was a professional in my field, and he respected that. And I respected him.
- Did Iverson have competition in the team, or was he above all?
I don't think he had any competition. Any team, any team sport is built around stars and superstars. And so the Iverson team was built around him. Many people say that he could have achieved more if he had been on a regimen or exercising more, like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. I don't know, I wouldn't say.
— Why?
- This is his personal choice, and I would not talk about this topic. It is what it is. He made his choice, but left a huge mark on the history of the NBA. Superstar. An African American idol, he brought in a certain culture with his pigtails. A well-known fact: in Philadelphia, a 13-year-old boy was shot dead in his area with a random bullet. When he was shot, he was wearing the number 3 T-shirt - Iverson. Iverson paid for his funeral, didn't know him at all, but he did.
Once a young player - Larry Hughes - once looked at Iverson and said: "You have such a car, wow!". Iverson gave him the keys to the Bentley and said, "Bring it tomorrow." And what's even more remarkable about this story is that this boy Larry went for a drive and did not fill up. At night, he ran out of gas in some disadvantaged area. Later he said to Iverson: “Why didn’t you warn that you had little gasoline?”
Iverson is very loyal to his environment, to people. If we were sitting at a bar in the evening or having dinner at a restaurant or hotel, he could come in and say to the waiter: “Send the bill to my room.” To the people he knows and feels, he is always as loyal as possible.
- You saw the approach of American and coaches. How do you now look at the methods of work of the legendary handball mentor Turchin. You worked for Spartak for many years…
— The Soviet school of trainers is a totalitarian approach. Said they did it. Need, Need. If it is pure baseless authoritarianism, then no one will accept it. And if a specific task is given to a separate group or team and the coaches see that they are not doing it to the end, then Turchin could stop the training and say: “We are doing 10 accelerations!”. And try not to do it.
When I told the story in the NBA that coach Turchin died in the locker room, they just didn't understand because it's business for them. The team for Turchin is his child, especially the first generation. Everyone was like a family, for the athletes he was God. So he recruited 12-year-old girls at school - Zina Turchina, Zakharova. And he said: "I will make champions out of you." And did. Legendary person. They all loved him terribly and idolized him. He demanded discipline. In America it's different. If the player is late, star, the plane can wait 15-20 minutes. And at Turchin 15 minutes late, wherever we are - get there yourself. As a coach of the USSR national team, he gathered the best in Kiev Spartak. If a player did not play at full strength, did not give himself up to the game, he could not send home, but to the base: sleep there and come to training in the morning.
— Is this impossible in America?
- Forget it. In America, especially now, the sport belongs to the players. Now LeBron ... They took a coach to the Lakers who stands on the sidelines and does not interfere with LeBron James winning the NBA championship. Coach Frank Vogel, a very good friend of mine. When he came to the League, he was a videographer, and now he has risen to head coach of the Lakers. See how Frank Vogel progressed from videographer to NBA winner as head coach. The task for him is to find an approach to the stars.
Players affect a lot, but not everything. I would call it symbiosis. If the player is right and demands something, management looks into it. But when he crosses the line, he will be stopped.
— Among the coaches, no one behaves like Turchin in the NBA? So I said, and so it should be?
- Here is a more democratic approach. Let's say someone is exercising coolly. The trainer could stop the session and say so. Turchin was so emotional, he could shout, swear. At the World Championships, he called the German judges swear words and he was disqualified for six months, the international federation. For six months he could not sit on the bench at international competitions. He called them pigs. He couldn't contain his emotions. The man won 20 USSR championships in a row, I was lucky, of course, to work with such a coach.
On the other hand, when Turchin went to work in Norway, his methods were not accepted there. Another mentality. The most interesting thing is that he graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in basketball, and then it was the Soviet system, that they called him and said: “We are cultivating a new sport - handball. You will train!" There was no choice. Appointed - do it, it was the Soviet Union. Now the conditions are different. And he went to an ordinary school on Otradnoye, it seems, and recruited girls. And he brought them to Spartak, to gold medals. Unique story.
One of the success factors is iron discipline. As long as the team traveled abroad, there were no conflicts. Representatives of various sports, football, and others were caught stealing. No one escaped from us, no one did anything, we had "better to die than let the team down in this way." It was a feeling of pride for the team, for the country.
I remember the first time I put on a suit with the letters USSR on the back, it was a pride. Or let's say someone told me that I would work with such a great coach, I would say: "Is this a joke?". These places have long been occupied by someone. But if you do your job professionally, then there will be a chance. I have nothing but respect for this man. He taught me a lot. When I left the team and said about emigration, he flared up. Such a person.
I have been in Ukraine 2-3 times in these 30 years. On one of his visits, I went to Spartak and saw former players, Zina Turchina, Zakharova. Then with his daughter we went to his cemetery and there was a good feeling.
- Why did the 76ers stop working in Philadelphia?
- I worked alone all the time. Then a new coach came, seven years ago, and things started to change. He asked to prepare 7 masseurs, so that they would come and we “worked out” the whole team in 2 hours and they went to rest. But I told him that if you want me to be the organizer of this, then I, accordingly, should be the head of the department and receive accordingly.
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We used to come back from a match, and the coach would say right at night what time tomorrow a group of massage therapists should be at the base. I was dissatisfied, because this is disrespect for people. They also have their own plans. Collecting this pool is a separate job. They didn't want to pay for it. They said goodbye to me, took a blonde girl, but she quickly left. They are looking for someone again.
- Were you called back?
- Other teams called me, but I had already left. There is an expression “You cannot enter the same river twice”. If some local team invites me for home conditions and games, I will go, but I don’t want to go. Although the owners are developing the clubs, they really don’t like to raise salaries. Volodya Shulman and I had some of the highest salaries in the NBA as massage therapists in the league. Appreciated ...
- Have you earned a comfortable pension?
- Well, I can't say comfortable. Can't say I'm rich, but I'm not on the street. I don't have a big house, I have a three-room apartment, I help my children. But still have to work.
I have watched winners lose and losers win. Each year I learn something that makes me a better official and a better person. Each year I meet people that inspire me and people who serve my life no purpose, but I learn from all of it. 
You will shift between the lead position and the trail or center position many times per game, and thus, your responsibilities will change constantly. Basketball officials are also closer to the players, coaches and the fans than in other sports and must be able to focus and ignore distractions. You will also need to be able to handle hearing verbal criticism from the stands and sometimes communicate with coaches. Teamwork and support for and from your partners is crucial to success in basketball officiating.
You can also work adult amateur, club and AAU basketball year-round to make reliable income. A basketball official working youth, high school and adult amateur games, with a full schedule, can make several hundred dollars per week outside their normal jobs. College officials make more and game fees increase with the level of competition. Many high level college officials and professional officials do not have other jobs, and live on their officiating income.
You may also start at this level if you have a good grasp of the rules and/or experience as a player. For jr. high games, ask your association leader or contact your school district. For high school games, you’ll need to work with an assigner through your local association. Any work with sanctioned school games requires you to be registered through your state, to prove you’re competent.
Not only can you learn from experienced veterans, you can be seen by those who assign games at that level, most often conference commissioners or officiating supervisors.
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If the current judge does not pass the winter exam, then he is not allowed to the second half of the season. Such cases happen. 
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In particular, in Moscow, free lessons are held on Tuesdays. In the Moscow region - on Tuesdays, Fridays at the Moscow Basketball Federation or at games. But all this is still functioning separately, there is no centralized and organized work yet. A number of European countries already have well-established training programs for judges, while we are only on the way to this. 
There will be 4 days of workshop and 3 days of work on the site with feedback and video analysis of each judge. 
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6 such manuals have already been issued. We get positive feedback from them. it is useful and we will move in that direction. 
They must meet the requirements of the European, national championship and have no violations. 
The first day July 24, 2021 
Not only basketball players, but also pros in their industries. 
" I remember it to tears now. And we say, because I mean colleagues from the former Union countries who worked in the American leagues. Volodya Shulman recommended me to the NBA. He was a legend with the Boston Celtics for 35 years. We knew each other from handball. When I moved to the USA, I worked as a massage therapist in a squash club. In the "76th" they were looking for a massage therapist. The head coach of the team worked with Shulman. So he advised me. At the interview, I first spoke about myself, and then offered to do a massage so that everyone understood my level. Anyone can tell, but doing it is another matter. 
But let's say Vitalik Potapenko is another story. They were afraid to play against him! They called it "Ukrainian train". After skirmishes with him, the players were bruised. Potapenko stayed to live and work in the USA - he was an assistant in Cleveland, and now in the Memphis Grizzlies. 
How will they last 15 years in the NBA? 
And so people lose their jobs if they don't know what to do. 
Here you have a specially equipped plane, here you have sports medicine, science, masseurs. I think that in some cases it even indulges in something. They believe that this is how it should be, but they forget how it was before. They have everything to play their favorite game 100-200%. The league creates the best conditions for teams and players. 
Previously, individual training was for fans of their craft, like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. Now individual lessons and approach to everyone is the norm. In addition to training, the player works individually: gym, recovery, procedures. All this takes 5-6 hours. And my working day took an average of 8 hours. After all, the staff arrives earlier and leaves later. 
Training - usually training at 11:00, the medical staff who tap the players all gather 3 hours before the start of training. Then the players arrive - according to the schedule. Beginners first, veterans pull up later. Everyone tries to show up early to get some sort of short massage to prepare themselves for the workout. Then a workout. 
If you do not warm up the body, then you can easily get injured. 
For a very long time, he believed that training was not important. The main thing is the game. And he even talked about it publicly. 
In order to understand his psychology, you need to know his childhood. Iverson grew up without a father in a very difficult area, where there were constant problems with the law. 
A well-known fact: in Philadelphia, a 13-year-old boy was shot dead in his area with a random bullet. When he was shot, he was wearing the number 3 T-shirt - Iverson. Iverson paid for his funeral, didn't know him at all, but he did. 
How do you now look at the methods of work of the legendary handball mentor Turchin. You worked for Spartak for many years… 
In America it's different. If the player is late, star, the plane can wait 15-20 minutes. And at Turchin 15 minutes late, wherever we are - get there yourself. As a coach of the USSR national team, he gathered the best in Kiev Spartak. If a player did not play at full strength, did not give himself up to the game, he could not send home, but to the base: sleep there and come to training in the morning. 
I would call it symbiosis. If the player is right and demands something, management looks into it. But when he crosses the line, he will be stopped. 
You will train!" There was no choice. Appointed - do it, it was the Soviet Union. Now the conditions are different. And he went to an ordinary school on Otradnoye, it seems, and recruited girls. And he brought them to Spartak, to gold medals. Unique story. 
When I left the team and said about emigration, he flared up. Such a person. 
I was dissatisfied, because this is disrespect for people. They also have their own plans. Collecting this pool is a separate job. They didn't want to pay for it. They said goodbye to me, took a blonde girl, but she quickly left. They are looking for someone again. 
