First woman will ref NBA playoff game
Violet Palmer, one of the NBA’s first female referees, is set to be the first woman to officiate an NBA playoff game.
For Palmer, 33, working the playoffs is a goal she has been working toward for years.Palmer also runs the Violet Palmer Referee Camp. Hotness."I wasn't sure I could reach it," Palmer said. "I knew I had the ability but this is the top of the pedestal for me."
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I remember when Violet Palmer was working (boys) high school tournament games in 1990 in Los Angeles. (I was also employed by the tournament, as a public address announcer.) She was a great official then and climbed all the way up to the NBA.
(One thing though, she was in her late 20's in 1990, so she sure as heck isn't 33 now.)