Ronnie Nunn (born in

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) is a former

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in the

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(NBA) for nineteen seasons and served for five years as the league's Director of Officials, until being reassigned in 2008 in the wake of the Tim Donaghy scandal. More recently he was host of ''Making the Call With Ronnie Nunn'' for seven seasons on

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. He officiated 1,134 regular season, 73

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, four

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games, and the

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Early life

Nunn attended

Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn Technical High School, commonly called Brooklyn Tech and administratively designated High School 430, is an elite public high school in New York City that specializes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It is one of th ...

where he was an All City Basketball player and Honorable Mention Baseball player and later played for George Washington Revolutionaries. He was inducted into the GWU Basketball Hall of Fame as well as being part of GWU's Basketball's All Century Team After college, he played two seasons of professional basketball for Leon of the Circuito Nacional de basket

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and named by the Mexico press as the North American player of the decade during the 70's. He was a member of two NBA team camps, the

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and

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and a member of the ABA Denver Rockets Camp. Nunn became a ten-year Special Education Teacher and Administrator and later became a Pace University Assistant Basketball Coach from 1978 to 1982 before being appointed to the NBA Officiating staff in 1984.

References

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