Ísak Ernir Kristinsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ísak Ernir.

Ísak Ernir Kristinsson
Born	(1993-07-22) 22 July 1993 (age 31) Iceland
Nationality	Icelandic
Basketball career
Position	Basketball referee
Officiating career	2009–present

Ísak Ernir Kristinsson (born 22 July 1993) is an Icelandic FIBA referee and a politician.[1]

Basketball

Ísak Ernir started refereeing in the Icelandic national leagues at the age of sixteen and soon established himself as one of the top referees in the country.[2] In 2017 he was selected to referee in the NBA Summer League.[3][4] On 24 January 2018, he ejected a fan from a game between ÍR and Njarðvík's after the fan had leaned over him from the sidelines and called him a racist.[5][6]

In August 2019, Ísak Ernir was named an official FIBA referee.[7]

On 16 October 2019, Ísak was involved in a controversy with KR player Unnur Tara Jónsdóttir, who is a practicing medical doctor outside of basketball, after she requested permission to enter the court during a stoppage to attend to a teammate who had been suffered a serious leg injury after a hard landing moments before. Ísak denied her the permission and gave her a technical foul after she indicated that she would then ask one of the other referees at the game for permission instead.[8] After the incident caused an uproar with fans, the Icelandic Basketball Association Referee Committee issued a statement where it stated that Ísak admitted that it had been a mistake on his behalf to deny Unnur permission to attend to her injured teammate and that the Committee agreed with that assessment.[9]

Politics

In 2016, Ísak Ernir ran for Alþingi as a member of the Independence Party. In July 2018 he was appointed by Bjarni Benediktsson, the Financial Minister of Iceland and leader of the Independence Party, as chairman of Kadeco, a state owned redevelopment company that was created in 2006 to oversee the sales of buildings that belonged to the former US Naval Air Station in Keflavík.[10][11] In 2019, it was revealed that Ísak was dating Bjarni's daughter.[12][13][14]

Personal life

Ísak Ernir is the son of long time basketball referee Kristinn Óskarsson.[15][16] In 2020, he had his first child with Margrét Bjarnadóttir, the daughter of Bjarni Benediktsson.[17]

References

1. "Ísak Ernir nýr stjórnarformaður Kadeco". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 2 July 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
2. Kjartan Atli Kjartansson (28 June 2017). "Joey Crawford vildi fá Ísak í NBA". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
3. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (10 July 2017). "Ísak Ernir dæmdi í NBA-deildinni í nótt". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
4. Runólfur Trausti Þórhallsson (26 June 2017). "Ísak Ernir dæmir í sumardeild NBA körfuboltans". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
5. Tómas Þór Þórðarson (24 January 2018). "Stuðningsmaður ÍR kallaði dómarann rasista og var hent út úr húsi". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 26 January 2018.
6. Ástrós Ýr Eggertsdóttir (25 January 2018). "Læt það ekki óátalið að vera kallaður rasisti". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 26 January 2018.
7. "Ísak orðinn alþjóðadómari". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
8. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (17 October 2019). "Atvikið þegar læknirinn fékk tæknivíti fyrir að spyrja hvort hún mætti hjálpa meiddum liðsfélaga". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 17 October 2019.
9. Kristinn Páll Teitsson (17 October 2019). "Dómaranefnd KKÍ: Mistök að refsa leikmanni KR í gær". Fréttablaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 17 October 2019.
10. Þorgeir Helgason (2 July 2018). "Ungur Sjálfstæðismaður gerður að stjórnarformanni opinbers fyrirtækis". Stundin (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
11. Kolbeinn Tumi Daðason (2 July 2018). "Ísak Ernir nýr stjórnarformaður Kadeco". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
12. "Er samband ísaks og margrétar, dóttur bjarna ben, dæmi um hagsmunaárekstur?". Hringbraut (in Icelandic). 18 April 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
13. Lára Ómarsdóttir (17 April 2019). "Óvíst um hagsmunaárekstur". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 27 January 2021.
14. Hjálmar Friðriksson (16 April 2019). "Skipaður stjórnarformaður opinbers fyrirtækis". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). Retrieved 27 January 2021.
15. "Feðgar dæma saman í fyrsta sinn í úrvalsdeild". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). 19 March 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
16. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (13 February 2015). "Dómarasagan var skrifuð í Þorlákshöfn í kvöld". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
17. Stefán Árni Pálsson (3 April 2020). "Margrét og Ísak eignuðust sitt fyrsta barn og Bjarni Ben því orðinn afi". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 27 January 2021.

External links

• 2016 Alþingi election profile at ruv.is