After 39 years, longtime NBA referee Joey Crawford says he is hanging up his whistle after the season.
"I'm done," Crawford told the Delaware County Daily Times.
Crawford, 64, has been sitting out this season after undergoing knee surgery. He plans to return to the court by March 1 and hopes to referee through the playoffs.
"There's nothing to be sorry about. You know what happens? It's not that you lose your passion. I have that. That's insanity," Crawford told the newspaper. "But it just comes to the point where you say, 'I don't want to make a fool out of myself.