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Earl Strom: NBA’s Oldest Referee Does It His Way, 1982

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Nov 08, 2021
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[Referees tend to be homers. Not Earl Strom. He was known around the NBA as being tough on the home team and cantankerous about it. In this 1982 profile of Strom, then the oldest referee in the league and known to his friends as “Yogi,” the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Chuck Newman tags along with Strom for several games. Newman’s profile ran first in the Fe…

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