When NBA games come down to the wire, you want the play and the skill of the competitors on the court to determine the outcome of the game. The last thing you want is some dork in a gray shirt to blow a shrill whistle, stop play, and completely change the outcome of a close game.

That’s almost exactly what happened late in the Portland Trail Blazers’ come-from-behind win last night against the Oklahoma City Thunder when Blazers forward Toumani Camara was whistled for a shooting foul on the Thunder’s Isaiah Joe with the Blazers up three with less than a second to go.

The Thunder heaved a three, got their own rebound, then – when Deni Avdija failed to foul on the floor to send the Thunder to the line for two – Oklahoma City kicked it out to the open Joe at the top of the key who attempted

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