[canuckrefguy]

In FIBA, there is no specific rule regarding an "inadvertent whistle" or whistle in error, as far as I know.

A time-out opportunity in FIBA exists when the ball is dead; the ball is dead in FIBA when the whistle goes.

In this situation, once the official blows his whistle and stops the game, there would seem to be a time-out opportunity.

Doesn't seem right, but can someone locate, in the FIBA rules or interpretations, an exception where we deny the TO or sub where the buzzer is sounded in error?

Closest I could find was an interpretation case where there was a TO opportunity that ends, and then when the ball's about to be thrown in, a coach requests a TO and the table "sounds the horn in error" and the official blows their whistle. The FIBA interpretations say even though that is a dead ball and TO opportunity, the TO is not granted because the coach was too late.