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NBA Fines Knicks $200,000 for Conducting Illegal Draft Workouts

The NBA fined the New York Knicks $200,000 and team scout Rodney Heard $20,000 on Thursday for conducting illegal draft workouts. The league ruled that Heard, the Knicks' director of East scouting, violated rules restricting contact between teams and players eligible for the draft in May 2007 and May 2010. Under the...

Joe Crawford Invited to Sacramento Kings Training Camp

The Sacramento Kings have invited 6-foot-5 shooting guard Joe Crawford to training camp, according to sources close to the situation. After completing four years at the University of Kentucky in 2008, Crawford has played primarily in the NBA D-League with the Los Angeles D-Fenders, where he earned a call-up to the New...

Legends Complete NBA D-League Expansion Draft

The Texas Legends, the expansion team in the NBA D-League this season, had to start somewhere. With the Los Angeles Defenders taking the season off, the league granted the Legends their pick of the 14 "Returning players" for the Defenders. What does this mean? It means that if those players choose to return to the...

Jordan Crawford Filled In For Eric Gordon Rather Nicely

When Eric Gordon took a hard foul earlier this week against Tennessee State, Kelvin Sampson and the Hoosier faithful were pretty sure he'd be fine and available to play on Saturday against rival Kentucky. They were wrong. After barely being able to move around during Friday practice, it was decided that Gordon would...

Crawford vs. Duncan: The Tale of the Tape

In an effort to get a better understanding of who would win the proposed brawl between NBA ref Joe Crawford and NBA superstar Tim Duncan, let's break things down here. With much respect to Nick Bakay, here's the Tale of the Tape. Joe Crawford Tim Duncan...

Joe Crawford News From the Web

05/23/12 World's Largest Rail Car Being Built in New Castle Source: FOX - FOX 17/62 WKBN - Youngstown OH Employees at Kasgro in New Castle have been making heavy duty rail cars since 1993.
04/25/12 Yorktown Boys? Lax Shuts Down Washington-Lee Source: Potomac Almanac - Potomac VA Arlington The Yorktown boys' lacrosse team lost its first seven games of the season.

Background on Joe Crawford

Joseph "Joey" Crawford (born August 30, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) has been an American professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 1977 and wears the uniform number 17. Crawford is one of the most experienced, strict officials in the NBA and has developed a reputation for assessing technical fouls against both players and coaches.

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