{"id":7191,"date":"2023-01-13T14:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/former-nba-guard-smush-parker-named-nba-referee\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:58:20","slug":"former-nba-guard-smush-parker-named-nba-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/former-nba-guard-smush-parker-named-nba-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NBA guard Smush Parker named NBA referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Smush Parker had a solid career in the NBA in the 2000s, and like most former players, he wants to get back into the game. But he&#8217;s looking to make a comeback to the NBA on a very unconventional away trip.<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, Parker announced that he was trying to learn to be a referee. In his post, Parker admitted that there are only three successful former players to become an NBA referee, but he wants to be the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Parker will join Bernie Fryer, Leon Wood and Heywood Workman as the only referee in NBA history to have played in a league. Fryer spent five years as a player, but as a referee he spent thirty years. Wood is currently a former top 10 pick for 25 years as a reference, and Workman became a reference in 2008 after his nine-year playing career.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>Parker&#8217;s NBA career was short-lived, playing for six teams between the 2002-2008 season. He, <span>lakers<\/span>In 2005-07, he appeared in 164 games and averaged 11 points per season. He also played for the Cavaliers, Pistons, Suns, Heat, and Clippers.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<p>If Parker is serious about becoming a referee, he&#8217;ll have to spend years mastering the craft, starting off as a youth game referee, then working his way through the league.he is now <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBLproleague\/status\/1613140629571117056\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">work as a basketball league referee<\/a>a startup professional league launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/template\" id=\"facebookPixel1103097776498609\">!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()\n{n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}\n;if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n(function(){\n    fbq('init', '1103097776498609');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    var contentId = 'ci02b5423dd00026e2';\n    if (contentId !== '') {\n        fbq('track', 'ViewContent', {content_ids: [contentId], content_type: 'product'});\n    }\n})();<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiSWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNpLmNvbS9uYmEvMjAyMy8wMS8xMy9zbXVzaC1wYXJrZXItd29ya2luZy1iZWNvbWUtbmJhLXJlZmVyZWXSAU5odHRwczovL3d3dy5zaS5jb20vLmFtcC9uYmEvMjAyMy8wMS8xMy9zbXVzaC1wYXJrZXItd29ya2luZy1iZWNvbWUtbmJhLXJlZmVyZWU?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Smush Parker had a solid career in the NBA in the 2000s, and like most former players, he wants to get back into the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/smush-parker.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}