Patrick Fraher - NBA Referee
Sports Spectrum Podcast
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4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Episode 513
Patrick Fraher has been an NBA referee since 2001. He has officiated over 1,100 regular season games and over 50 playoff games in his 19 NBA seasons. In 2015, he officiated the NBA All-Star Game in New York City.
Prior to joining the NBA, Fraher officiated for seven years in the CBA where he worked the Finals and All-Star Game and also spent four years in the WNBA.
He attended the University of Minnesota, where he was awarded the Evans Scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Patrick about being scheduled to referee the Utah vs Oklahoma City game in March that was suspended and led to the postponement of the NBA season. We also hear how he became an NBA referee, his favorite Michael Jordan story, and his incredible story of coming to faith in Christ at age 43.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, guys, welcome to the show. Today we are presented by IJM, the International Justice |
| 0:25.5 | Mission, helping to protect more than 150 million people from violence worldwide. And right now, |
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| 1:22.1 | Very excited to welcome to our show on sports spectrum. |
| 1:26.2 | Patrick Frere. |
| 1:27.0 | He is an NBA official, basically an NBA |
| 1:30.6 | referee. He became a referee back in 2001 and has officiated more than 1,100 NBA games over his |
| 1:39.6 | 19 seasons as an NBA official and actually worked the 2015 NBA All-Star Game in New York. |
| 1:47.7 | Before joining the NBA, he officiated for seven years in the CBA, where he worked the |
| 1:52.8 | finals in the All-Star game there and has spent a few years in the WMBA as well. |
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