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NBA: Referee Joey Crawford, the guy who threw out Tim Duncan of San Antonio Spurs

SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Joey Crawford's nearly four-decade career spans from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Michael Jordan to Stephen Curry.

He has officiated in over 2,561 regular season games and 344 playoff games, including an amazing 50 NBA Finals games.

And yet many might remember Crawford, the often hot-headed official with the perennial grumpy look, as the guy who ejected Tim Duncan for laughing at him from the bench and drawing a suspension from David Stern in 2007. Others might recall Crawford for his sometimes ridiculously exaggerated physical theatrics when making a call which would go viral like this one.