The Wizards (41-24) caught a break with a missed call, but they created their own fortune by overcoming a 21-point deficit in the second half, fighting back in the fourth game in five nights and displaying the mental toughness that has defined their dream of a season.

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“It was a hard-fought game the last two games,” Morris said, referring to the Wizards’ back-to-back road overtime victories. “We let teams get a real big lead on us but you know, that just shows our will. Our will to not quit and that’s what we did again tonight.”

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Around the same time that Morris was gushing over the Wizards’ togetherness, the game’s lead official, Rodney Mott, gutted Portland with the cold truth.

Mott held a brief Q&A with a pool reporter following the game. Although Morris claimed he didn’t believe he stepped out — “Uh, no. I couldn’t really tell but the refs didn’t call it. They ain’t call it and that’s all I know” — Mott clarified the shot with four-tenths remaining in overtime. According to The Oregonian/OregonLive, Mott said he did not see Morris step out of bounds during live action and per NBA rules an out-of-bounds play does not trigger a review. Mott saw the replay after the game, however, and realized the missed call.

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“Yes, we looked at it and if it was reviewable, it would have been called out of bounds, Portland’s ball,” Mott said, according to the report.

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Whoopsie.

“Tomorrow they’re going to come out and say, ‘Oh, with 10 seconds left, he was out of bounds,'” Blazers guard Damian Lillard said, referring to the NBA Officiating Last Two Minute Report that makes public all officiated events in games that were within five points with two minutes remaining.

“It’s a time in the season where you need these games. Every little thing counts,” Lillard continued. “That’s B.S. that you can’t look at that.”

Lillard makes a valid point and the Trail Blazers, now 28-36 and out of playoff positioning, should feel a bit cheated. But Portland’s salty tears tasted like champagne inside the visitors’ locker room.

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“It’s almost like we won the championship,” Bradley Beal said. “We were throwing water around, beating on lockers like wild animals but it was electrifying, man. We were excited, especially with a game like that when you claw back and fight your butt off.”

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Surviving the toughest stretch of the road trip, Washington has won four games in five nights. Even more captivating, the Wizards took back-to-back games in Sacramento and Portland and created a historic moment — winning consecutive road overtime games for the first time since November 1991.

“We do it together and it’s good to see,” Coach Scott Brooks said. “You win a game like this, being down by the large number we were down but we were still together. It’s always about being together.

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“This has been a tough grind. It says a lot about our toughness but mainly says a lot about we’re doing it together.”

This mentality has guided the Wizards to a 22-5 record since Jan. 11, the best mark in the NBA. It’s also allowed the team to come back 14 times while trailing by double figures. In Portland, it happened again as the Wizards showed great trust in one another.

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Understanding he would need to expand the rotation to combat possible fatigue, Brooks relied on Jason Smith for first-half minutes, and later turned to Tomas Satoransky for an energetic spurt through the fourth quarter as the bench unit trimmed a nine-point deficit to four.

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Later in the fourth, when starters were back on the floor, John Wall cooked from the three-point arc but instead of checking for more heat, with 2:11 remaining he swung the pass to Beal for the triple and the 108-106 lead, the Wizards’ first since the 5:01 mark of the opening quarter.

Then with 6.8 seconds to go in overtime and the Blazers leading, 124-123, Beal trusted Morris for the biggest shot of the game.

After Lillard missed a pullup jump shot early in the shot clock, the Wizards secured the defensive rebound, but the initial action — a quick pin-down for Beal — did not pan out. Brooks yelled for time and drew up a play for Beal to go to work on the right side. During the action, Beal saw an opening but faced Portland’s Jusuf Nurkic. Beal didn’t like his odds at the rim against a 6-11 center but loved Morris’s on the baseline.

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“It was kind of a no-brainer for me to just hit the open guy,” Beal said. “We trust everybody to make shots. Win, lose or draw, I’m riding with my teammates.”

Instead of huddling under towels in the postgame moments, his tired feet soaking in cold water, Morris watched the Comcast replay of his shot. Morris’s slight grin grew a bit wider as Steve Buckhantz called out, “Daaaaaaaggggggger!”

No, the shot should not have counted, but the Wizards deserved every bit of the joyful result.