The NBA should fire the official who called the double-dribble in that Portland game and number 30, who called the technical. Literally, review it this morning, ask them for an explanation, and if they say anything other than "it was an egregious mistake, I'll say so publicly, and I need to spend a couple weeks in the G-League" they should be terminated immediately.
There's so many things wrong there it's hard to even specify..
1) Brogdon is fouled, beyond question - he had a scratch on his face from it
2) Brogdon sure seemed to be calling timeout with his hands early on (though I have not heard/seen Portland saying so)
3) You can see Billups yelling something, presumably "timeout"
4) The ball was touched in the scrum, so it isn't clear to me it actually was even a double dribble
5) You blow the four above and then don't even talk to each other to see if anyone saw or heard the timeout (though, I have a level of sympathy for this getting lost by the actions and Billups' reaction--it still should have happened before they did anything else)
6) After blowing 1-5, they had an absurdly quick T. I suppose if they come out say that Billups used a racist or homophobic slur I would feel ok about the T. But as that hasn't been reported there's no other words he could have said that justifies a T in that game situation, period. And that's even more true becuase they blew 1-4 above.
In terms of the contact, the ref turned and bumped into Billups, not the other way around. I get you can argue he's out of the coaching box and that's the T...but that's weak. It is not the case that Billups initiated that contact. In context, it's an atrocious T to call. The ref lost his cool and may have changed the outcome of the game---that's a firable offense, at least it should be, for that job. I guess if you're willing to say any contact, even if incidental, even if it is the ref initiating, is a T that's a way to legislate it but that's not reasonable and also not what they do.
I love it if Portland is challenging the game; teams should do that publicly more often. I get that this usually happens privately, and given the sorry state of NBA officiating and the reality that the refs respond to public pressure, teams should be doing this more to get their story out and to highlight the growing problem wtih bad officiating and bad emotional control (as these techs show).