In the waning moments of the Portland Trail Blazers’ recent close win against the Denver Nuggets, Blazers forward Toumani Camara wrapped up Nuggets center Nikola Jokic from behind… and forced a jump ball.

The play was decisive. The Nuggets, out of challenges, could do nothing but stare. And the NBA’s last two minute report confirmed the play was not, in fact a foul.

In an article from Bennett Durando of The Denver Post, Nuggets coach David Adelman, son of legendary Blazers’ coach Rick Adelman, took exception to this interpretation:

“I do think you have to learn from what they say is legal,” Adelman said. “… If you’re allowed to wrap someone from behind with two arms (and) as long as you touch the ball, it’s a jump ball, that’s a fundamental I have to teach in practice. So we will defini

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