Camara on Pace to Shatter Single-season Record for Offensive Fouls Drawn

The Portland Trail Blazers’ all-defensive wing pursues screens aggressively. If he figures a player is about to move, he beelines into the guy. But for the first time, a foul-drawing hound cannot be accused of disintegrating just to sell calls.

Over the last three weeks, Camara has drawn nine illegal screens and has fallen on only one of them.

He has perfected the lean. He’ll angle backwards and extend an arm at an awkward position, as if he were playing some mishmash of Twister and limbo.

Camara’s screen defense (along with his prolific charge-taking) could become an under-the-radar storyline in the basketball geek world. He led the league last season, drawing 91 offensive fouls. This season, he’s pacing to shatter that: 129, which would demolish the single-season record. Since the NBA began tracking this stat in 1999, no one has gotten into triple digits.