I have preserved this segment of an article for forty-five years, published in Alif Baa magazine (Issue No. 505) on April 4, 1978. It features an interview conducted with me by the late journalist Abbas Al-Janabi. In the interview, I discussed the standard of basketball at the time, as well as the training courses for federal referees we organized within the Higher Referees Association in Iraq, which I presided over during that period.