Today we are going to get to the point, first of all, please take a look at a GIF:
The clear-eyed people can see it at once, Doncic is on the sidelines to pick up the referee, three words and two words make the female referee in the picture difficult to hide her smile, and getting along with the girl can be described as young and not shallow.
Since the words have already been said on this, it is not appropriate to give you a complete restoration of the events, so let's expand the review a little.
It was in a focus battle in the NBA last month, when the Lone Rangers played the Clippers at home, and between Paul George's free throw line, Doncic came to the sideline to chat with the female referee.
DONCIC: Hey, did you see someone pull me along?
Referee: Who, who pulled you?
DONCIC: You didn't see anyone pulling me?
Referee: Who pulled you?
DONCIC: You, you pulled me into love.
Of course, this is my earthy love story that I have slightly adjusted according to Chinese, Doncic's original words are a combination of foul "Foul" and falling in love "Falling in love", very bluntly saying "Fouling in love with you" to the referee, just behind the two Tyrone Lue was stupid.
Good you Doncic, can you still do this?
However, Director Lu may not know that in fact, more than 2 years ago, his disciple Paul George was still playing for the Thunder, and he was also conquered by the smile of the female referee.
Recently, following Doncic, Dwight Howard was also filmed talking to the referee on the court for a long time, and the two were in a state that was almost like shooting a basketball idol drama, which made people call the sweetness exceeding the standard.
In this special season, it is difficult to see expensive Hollywood actresses on the sidelines, and cheerleaders can often only perform in the second-floor stands, but the female referee suddenly becomes the focus of the camera, which can also be regarded as adding a long-lost bright color to the NBA this season.
Her name is Ashley Moyer, the fourth full-time female referee in NBA history. If you are sharp enough, you may have discovered that this is a girl who loves to laugh, but behind the smile, she also has her own legendary story.
Ashley Moyer certainly loves basketball.
She is from Lebanon, but don't get me wrong, this is just a place name in pennsylvania, she has been involved in basketball since she was a teenager, and like most girls in the United States who love basketball, this love comes from the influence and inheritance of the family.
Ashley's father was Named Dave Moyer, a veteran who had left his mark on the Pennsylvania High School Basketball League, and When he was young, Dave Moyer fantasized about what kind of level he could play, and occasionally had the simplest and noblest dream of "breaking into the NBA." But Dave knew in high school that he was too far behind, and the talent gap was there, and he looked at the tall high school teammate and already knew that that kind of player was the material for playing in the NBA.
Dave Moyer's high school teammate was Sam Bowie, the man who was selected before Michael Jordan in the 1984 NBA Draft.
Although everyone talks about this name today, it is more to complain that the Blazers at that time did not have vision, but with Bowie's performance in the student era, he did not get such a draft pick. But injuries have destroyed his NBA career, and only in the basketball sky of Pennsylvania, there is still a legend of Bowie's youth.
Ashley Moyer, too, slowly walked into the sky.
The 10-year-old Ashley once won the MVP trophy in the women's MVP at a peer competition in Mannheim, Pennsylvania.
Then she went all the way up, from Cedar Kleist High School to Millersville University, which is an NCAA second-tier college, so you can get a glimpse of Ashley's level, she devoted herself to basketball, but did not have the top level of talent, and her dream in college was to become a basketball coach in the future, and if not, it was okay to do some sports medicine work.
On the official website of the University of Millersville Athletic Department, you can still find Ashley's name in the women's basketball roster of the 2009-10 season, and it was also that year that they reached the "Sweet Sixteen" stage in the NCAA Second Division Championship, when Ashley, as the team's main defender, wrote the highest highlight of his college basketball career.
But after the defeat in the Sweet Sixteen, Ashley's playing career came to an end. After retiring from the military, she went on to pursue graduate studies in sports management at millersville University while working as an assistant on the team, and when head coach Mary Flegher heard that she also wanted to be a coach in the future, she suggested that Ashley take the referee qualification exam to better understand the rules in this way – unexpectedly, her life would change.
After earning his master's degree, Ashley got a full-time job as a lecturer at an academy. But at the same time Ashley was given the opportunity to blow the penalty for the Pennsylvania High School League. "I've always loved basketball, and my favorite thing is playing on the court," Ashley Moyer said, "but I'm not used to sitting at home and watching other people's basketball games." "So for Ashley, watching someone play on TV is the most pointless, and to love it is to be involved, and she is involved in it, so she threw herself into her refereeing career."
The refereeing profession may have been more suitable for Ashley than Ashley herself thought.
She spent three years promoting from a middle school referee to a college referee, but fate fell in love with her so violently that one day in February 2016, she was blowing a NCAA third-tier league game when there was a knock at the infirmary's room at halftime.
El Batista and J.B Caldwell, the two expeditions, had come to see the previous game in the same gymnasium, which was a major game in the basketball world at the University of Pennsylvania, and naturally there were some prestigious referees enforcing the law. However, after staying a little longer, they decided to talk to the female referee, and they could see that Ashley was still very young, but what attracted them even more was the confidence and skill she showed when blowing off the game.
J.B Caldwell, then head of operations for the NBA's refereeing department, asked a question that Ashley hadn't expected at all.
"Hey, have you ever considered becoming an NBA referee?"
Ashley still had her habitual smile on her face, but couldn't help but respond, "What? What are you talking about? ”
She was only enforcing women's games in the NCAA Third Division, and she was asked if she was not interested in blowing the NBA sense — which sounded like either a lunatic or a liar.
But Ashley, after confirming it, decided to accept the challenge.
"Ashley has a fearless quality," said her mother, Patti Roman, "and she doesn't deliberately seek to get into the spotlight, but she's also never afraid of anything." ”
It was in 2016 that Ashley blew off the NCAA's Three Division Women's Basketball National Championships (above), and then she accepted the invitation to enter the NBA's refereeing system and began to accept the guidance of the world's highest level basketball referees. As I've said before, Ashley doesn't often sit in front of the TV and watch the ball, "so I don't watch the NBA very often, I just love basketball itself, but I was really shocked when I had the opportunity to witness the physical fitness and ability of athletes at this level." ”
The pace of the NBA game is so fast, which puts higher demands on the referee's ability to blow penalties, and the 28-year-old Ashley began to constantly consult the seniors with 20 years of law enforcement experience to listen to their pertinent advice, such as Caldwell asked Ashley to watch higher-speed videos to exercise his eyesight; then Ashley boarded the development league arena and began to exercise his "practical level" from the lower leagues.
"It's like this feeling of controlling the game, a little bit like playing point guard," Ashley said, "because whether it's playing point guard or being a referee, you can't really control the other people on the court, it's more of a psychological game, I'm going to look for a sense of control — of course, a lot of times, I may not be able to control it." ”
With the pleasure of immersion, Ashley progressed rapidly in the development league, and in 2018, just two years after she entered the development league, the NBA referee committee decided to promote Ashley Moyer to the NBA referee team, when she was only 30 years old, she was not the youngest NBA referee in history, but it took only 2 years to complete the leap from the development league to the NBA, which set a new record.
Ashley became the fourth full-time female referee in NBA history.
However, like all top players, entering the NBA is not the ultimate success, it is only the beginning.
For example, when a player first blew up on Ashley, she was frightened, and when someone sprayed her with the word "F" to start, she did not immediately give a technical foul - she was not instigated, she was just stunned, and revealed a soft side of the heart, every technical foul blow penalty, may affect a player's season and even career, not to mention the league will also fine him.
Retired Joey Crawford, the one who gave Ashley the most advice, has been guiding him on how to properly grasp the scale of punishment, while another referee, Ray Acosta, told her, "You want that demon (B**ch) in you to pull out." That is to say, the moment the referee whistles, Ashley has to forget about his smiling self.
Now that Ashley has cultivated successfully and become a good Enough NBA referee, Crawford will not hesitate to praise every time he talks to Ashley on the phone, but all the praise may not be as moving as this passage from his mother Patti Roman.
The mother said:
"As her mom, I think it's all amazing, watching her grow up, watching her put so much effort into basketball and other things she loves, and now she's not only doing what she loves, but maybe even leaving her own legend." 」
"What mother can not love all this?" I can't imagine anything better for a parent than to see a child have such an opportunity. ”
Oh finally, Ashley's full name is Ashley Moyer-Glitch, the last name is her husband's surname, and the family has married a referee colleague, Doncic Howard, you have no chance!
Of course, the chat with Doncic Howard was just a small episode in Ashley's life, allowing more people to discover her existence. But the beautiful main theme of her life has long been played, and her father could only watch a genius like Sam Bowie enter the NBA, but now her daughter has entered the highest hall of the basketball world through another path.
Ashley had carved his name in the pantheon.