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Ken Hudson; NBA referee who founded Boston Shootout

By Marvin Pave

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 13, 2012

In 1968, Ken Hudson became a pioneering black referee with the National Basketball Association. Four years later, he founded the popular Boston Shootout, which featured the best high school basketball players in the country. “He also had an affinity for dealing with young people,’’ said Tom “Satch’’ Sanders, the former Celtics star who coached the victorious Boston team in the first Shootout at Boston University’s Case Center.

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