Sentence examples for worked playoff from inspiring English sources

It took him 11 years in the N.B.A. before he worked playoff games; he is now a postseason fixture.

In his early years with the NBA, Rudolph quickly became an established official as he worked playoff games within his first two years in the league.

Javie has worked 210 playoff games, including 21 finals games.

Corbin, 44, spent 17 seasons in the N.B.A. and worked 51 playoff games.

He returned for the 1995-96 season wearing a helmet for the first time, but he never worked a playoff game again.

John Ashley, 77 — The N.H.L.'s top referee of his era and a Hall of Fame inductee, he worked every playoff Game 7 between 1964 and '72.

Violet Palmer became the first woman to call an NBA game in 1997, and after Sarah Thomas made her debut as an NFL official in 2015, she worked a playoff game between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Chargers this January.

Hochuli has worked numerous playoff games, including two Super Bowls.

DOUG HARVEY, a 25-year National League veteran with five years of playoff experience, and Larry Barnett, a 17-year American League veteran who has worked four playoffs, will head their six-man umpiring crews in the League Championship Series.

(He has worked the playoffs three times, but never a World Series, and his calls have sometimes been controversial).

Garrett Rank already worked the playoffs, but if given a choice between the Stanley Cup finals and a top-10 finish at the Open, he'd choose golf.