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2 female officials work NBA game

With more female referees now in the NBA than ever before, it was only a matter of time before two women would be scheduled to work the same game.

And Monday was that day.

Natalie Sago and Jenna Schroeder made up two-thirds of the crew assigned to the Charlotte at Orlando game, the first time in NBA history that two women were assigned to work a regular-season contest together. Sean Wright was picked to be crew chief, Sago the referee and Schroeder the umpire.

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