Worlds Laziest Ref Calls High School Game Sitting In A Folding Chair At Mid Court
Yahoo – When a teenage basketball prospect (or his parents, for that matter) sign up for a major regional recruiting showcase, they expect to see college assistant coaches in attendance, some experiences coaches and other top recruits on the other side of the court. What they don’t expect to see is a referee sitting in a folding chair at halfcourt, calling their game without moving. Incredibly, that’s precisely what happened during the afternoon session of the recent ScoutsFocus Elite Showcase in Greensboro, North Carolina, where one referee decided she had had enough running up and down the court for one day. Never mind the fact that the players at the event were running at least as much as she was, and much faster, too. Or that the players she was officiating were paying for the privilege of playing at the event, while she was getting paid. Evidently neither of those factors was enough motivation to keep this referee on her feet. According to the list of referees for the event, the midcourt sitter was a woman named Nicole Henry. While it’s likely that Henry was working the event predominantly as a way to earn some extra weekend cash, that hardly justifies her decision to quite literally sit down on the job.
Ain’t no shame in that game! I know most of you are gonna be like “Fuckin female referees are the worst! She probably had her period or something!” Yada yada yada fuck that noise. I admire this chick’s hustle or lack thereof. She probably spent all day watching these 15 year old kids pretend they were Skip To My Lou or Hot Sauce at the Rucker Park. Watching these little shits pretend they were on the And 1 Tour lookin to impress the crowds. So why am I gonna spend my day busting my ass up and down the court? You want me to call 3 second violations and watch for contact underneath while I gotta worry about the hot shot who’s been carrying the ball and traveling at the top of the key every possession? Fuck that noise. Give me a lawn chair and a whistle and I’ll just put my hands up every time someone hits a three. Other than that you little pricks are on your own.
There must be a black joke here somewhere
it’s not like she’s dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
That is NOT how I envision regional recruiting showcases to look like.
typical lazy black woman. How many kids she got? How many baby daddies?
At least get her a rolling chair so she can scoot her way from three point line to three point line
@tornopen , whats up, when you going to post that rape story bro, its pretty damn cool
George Costanza strikes again
What’s up with having a showcase on a mini court? Half court was 3 steps behind the 3 point line. Probably part of the reason why she was reffing from half court. Still, not a good look home girl.
this was a bs game, who cares.
Or maybe the gym is just too small for the ref to be running around… dickbag… just another attempt to belittle a black person… approve
This should be re titled laziest reporter in America. Why you ask because Cameron Smith did not take the time to interview the ref to find out her side of story, have you ever hear the term “fair and balanced reporting”? If he could find out the name of the ref and the agent that hired her than he could have surely found out a way to contact Nicole Henry and find out her side of the story like a true reporter would do. But that would be to much work and it would have not got him the publicity of slandering my hard working sister. If he had talked to her he would have found out the true story.
First we both have degrees in communications so we know the proper procedures and ethics of checking the facts of a story before printing or broadcasting something that would slander someones name and reputation. Mrs. Henry has a masters degree in communications can Mr. Smith say the same. He must have been the lazy on sleep threw his class on ethics and how to check his facts to present a fair and balanced story. Lets go over the errors and misinformation in this story that would have easily been cleared up with one phone call to Mrs. Henry and you decide who is the lazy one.
1. No other players or refs played or called all 9 games scheduled for that with only a 20 minute break between each game which lasted a minimum of 1 hr each. The sponsors of the event did not provide any of the refs with water or food. And by the way the womens rest room was all the way on the other side the facility.
2. Greg Williams, who was the agent and Mrs. Henry’s boss, did not schedule enough refs for the days events and was aware of and approved her calling her last game of day in this manner so that she would stay and work all 9 games. Other refs who were aware of Mr. Williams practices of doing such left after 3 games. Mrs Henry’s strong work ethic and love for the kids and the game motivated her to tuff it out for 9 games, tell me if that sounds lazy to you and what would have you done?
3. Mrs Henry is the co-founder and co-owner of Salem-Sitters, and a proud mother of 4 kids by the same man she has been happily married too. And by the way all the kids are excelling academically and athletically.
The parents, kids, organizers of the event and Mr. Williams should be thanking Mrs. Henry for staying on her post for the kids and sticking it out under deplorable working conditions. The true lazy person was the reporter that wrote this story that didn’t take the time to pick up the phone and call Mrs. Henry to get her side of the story and check his facts.
Lorin, you are an elitistl. Only a smug cunt would find it necessary to pre-qualify their criticisms by highlighting how awesome and educated they are. To make matters worse, you focus on Cameron Smith’s failure to do his due diligence but you made yourself look like an idiot savant with solid facts but ZERO ability
Lorin, you are an elitistl. Only a smug cunt would find it necessary to pre-qualify their criticisms by highlighting how awesome and educated they are. To make matters worse, you focus on Cameron Smith’s failure to do his due diligence but you made yourself look like an idiot savant with solid facts but ZERO ability
to form a complete sentence.
Since the reporter or blogger that wrote this story was so lazy that he could not call Nicole Henry to get her side of the story let me fill you in on the fact that he did not. Mrs Henry was booked by her agent to work the tournament where this video was recorded but was not told that the agent only booked 3 refers to work over 9 consecutive basketball games. While the other refers were familiar with this agents practices Mrs. Henry was not and did all that she could to be there for the kids and parents that had paid for their kids to be in this event. The other refs left after 3 games. They always say no good deed goes unpunished and this video and slanders irresponsible reporting is proof of that. Now I am Mrs. Henry’s brother, I grew up with her and in our household everyone pulled their weight and it didn’t matter what sex you were you did everything from the cooking and the cleaning to yard work and manual labor. We both graduated from college as did our parents and my sister Nicole Henry went on to get a masters degree in communications as well. Our family has never been on welfare and our bloodline includes Doctors, Lawyers, Nurses, Teachers, Architects and Entrepreneurs. Our grandfather on my mother side owned his own moving company in Washington DC and was called by LBJ himself to move his families personnel belongs into the White House after President Kennedy was assassinated. Our grandfather’s cousin, Vivian Thomas, invented the tools, procedures and techniques still used by today’s heart surgeons. So before you believe everything you read or see on the internet do what the report that wrote this article did not do and take the time to check the facts before comment or cast judgment on my sister and our family. Mrs. Henry as well as I and my father own real estate and provide quality housing for families in our communities. We also own our own business; Mrs. Henry is co-owner and founder of Salem Sitter, providing quality sitting services for all in the Winston-Salem area. For more information text SALEMSITTERS to 90210 on your cell phone or go to http://www.salemsitters.com/ So before you mess with me or my family and have the gall to call one of us lazy or anyone of the other things that I read on these websites look at yourself and your family and see if you have been raised to be able to walk a mile in our shoes. Claude Trotter