The NBA's chief of referees defended his crew Friday in the wake of controversy over how it affected the outcome of the Oklahoma City Thunder's overtime win over the Portland Trail Blazers a night earlier.
Monty McCutchen, a former longtime veteran official and the NBA's vice president of referee development and training, indicated in an appearance on ESPN's The Jump that those officials would be the first to step up and acknowledge they were wrong.
"We know we're going to be imperfect at times," McCutchen said. "And this is one of those times.