Joe DeRosa (referee), Date of Birth
TweetJoe DeRosa (referee)
American basketball player
Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1957
Profession: basketball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Joe DeRosa (referee)
- Joseph M.
- "Joe" DeRosa (born April 11, 1957, in North Canton, Ohio) is an NCAA Division 1 men's basketball referee.
- DeRosa and Joe Forte are the only persons to have officiated both in the NBA Finals and the NCAA Men's Final Four.
- He was one of three officials selected to work the first of the two 2012 National Semi-Final games of the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
- He officiated both the 2014 National Championship game between Kentucky and Connecticut and the 2015 National Championship game between Duke and Wisconsin.
- He has officiated in the Southeastern and Big 12 Conferences since 2010.
- He started his referee career as a high school official in Western Kentucky Region 1 while he owned a liquor store in Paducah, Kentucky. Previously, he spent 22 seasons officiating in the National Basketball Association.
- During his time working as an NBA official he officiated over 1,500 regular-season games, 150 playoff games and 11 NBA Finals games.
- DeRosa has also conducted officiating clinics in Venezuela and France.During game two of 2010 Eastern Conference Finals, DeRosa was involved in an altercation with an Orlando Magic fan.
- The fan, Wyndham Vacation Ownership CEO Franz Hanning, was heckling him when DeRosa threw the game ball across the scorers' table at Hanning.
- The fan then threw the ball back at DeRosa, who had NBA security eject Hanning.
- The NBA suspended him one game for the situation.DeRosa's son, J.B.
- DeRosa, is also a basketball referee.
- J.B.
- officiated women's college basketball at the NCAA Division one level, including the Ohio Valley Conference and the Atlantic 10 Conference among others.
- He is now in his first year as an NBA Referee
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