Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum's weekly devotional here on the Sports Spectrum podcast.

Let's get to Bryce Johnson from unpacking it

and hear what this week's devotional has to say.

There's an ongoing concern in the NBA

that the refs make countless questionable decisions,

especially during the last two minutes of games.

Instead of getting involved by making the right calls,

refs often choose the no call and let players keep playing by swallowing their whistles

in crunch time.

Being a professional ref must be difficult at the end of a game,

but nobody wants to see their team lose after a blatant,

missed call.

Recently, the Pistons lost the game to the Knicks after the refs didn't call a foul

that was clearly happening right in front of them, and instead they stood there watching

without blowing the whistle and just looking the other way. This concept of swallowing

the whistle or choosing the no-call can also creep into our own lives. Are we seeing a player

get clearly fouled and doing nothing about it? If we look with open eyes at our friends, coworkers, extended family,

neighborhood, and city, there are plenty of opportunities to blow the whistle, so to speak.

Yet we often choose to swallow our whistle by not getting involved or not trying to make a

difference. We all witness people in pain.

There are problems and injustices taking place every day.

From the homeless to impoverished children to abused women to addicts to the moral decay of society

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