Curtis Blair is a retired American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player and current referee in the NBA

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

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A 6'3" and 185 lb point guard

Point guard

Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

, Blair played college basketball for the University of Richmond Spiders

Richmond Spiders

The Richmond Spiders represent the University of Richmond, a member of the NCAA's Division I and a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference for all sports except football and women's golf, which participate as members of the Colonial Athletic Association....

. Blair was honored as the Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year

The Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Colonial Athletic Association's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1982–83 season, when the conference was known as the ECAC South basketball league...

 in 1991-92 season, as well as a two-time first-team All-CAA

Colonial Athletic Association

The Colonial Athletic Association is a NCAA Division I college athletic conference whose full-time members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to Georgia. Most of its members are public universities, with five in Virginia alone, and the conference is headquartered in Richmond,...

 and three-time CAA All-Tournament team selection.http://www.uncwsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=19800&ATCLID=204808758

He was selected by the Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1967, and played in San Diego, California for four years, before being...

 in the 2nd round (53rd overall) of the 1992 NBA Draft

1992 NBA Draft

The 1992 NBA Draft took place on June 24, 1992, in Portland, Oregon. At the time, the draft was considered to be one of the deepest drafts in NBA history. The top three picks were considered can't-miss prospects. O'Neal and Mourning are likely Hall of Famers...

, though he never played in a regular-season game for the Rockets.http://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2508&Itemid=158

Following a brief career playing overseas, Blair became a referee in the NBA, where he wears the number 74.http://www.covers.com/pageLoader/pageLoader.aspx?page=/data/nba/referees/2008-2009/referee371004.html

External links

• http://www.thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2508&Itemid=158 at TheDraftReview.com
• http://www.covers.com/pageLoader/pageLoader.aspx?page=/data/nba/referees/2008-2009/referee371004.html Referee Statistics