Norm Drucker, the only NBA referee to toss Wilt Chamberlain from a game, died Friday. He was 94.
Norm Drucker worked NBA games from 1953-69, then moved to the ABA from 1969-76, also serving as that league’s supervisor of officials for five years. He returned to the NBA when the leagues merged to spend one more season on the court (1976-77) before becoming the NBA’s supervisor of officials until 1981.
Perhaps his most famous call came in 1962 when he called a second technical foul on Chamberlain, then with the Philadelphia Warriors. The ejection was the only one of the Hall of Fame center’s career.