It started off as a dream, then it became a reality. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve wanted to become a referee. To set the scene, I would go to my older brother’s basketball games when I was younger. At the time, I was about four or five years old, and no one my age was at the games. The technology that we live with now was not really a thing then, so I needed to entertain myself somehow. It was during this time, I saw two older gentlemen wearing striped shirts, blowing