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I was a referee for a middle school basketball season. My sisters and I—we were like 15 or 16 at the time—and it doesn’t matter that you’re a young kid. I was getting $15 a game, basically an hour. And people are yelling at you, calling you blind if they don’t like your call.

— Chiney Ogwumike

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