The running mate of Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, is always ready to step up as the occasion demands. In case the franchise superstar has everything under control, ‘Uncle Drew’ ensures he does his part in being a pest for defenders. While Luka finished the night with a triple-double tonight, Kyrie contributed 20 points as the team’s second-best scorer.

However, it seems like Kai might have gotten one of those scores on the back of a no-call. There were just 47 seconds left on the clock when Irving appeared to have knocked the ball off Jaden McDaniels’ hands. Minnesota was up two at the time. The Mavericks challenged the possession, which was originally awarded to the Wolves for an out of bounds off Kyrie. Upon review, the call was overturned and Dallas recovered the ball. But it looks like that wasn’t the case.

Pool report has the facts in favor of the Wolves

The pool report interview conducted by Star Tribune’s Chris Hine saw ref Zach Zarba admit that a foul should have been called on Kyrie Irving. “Conducted the pool report tonight in which Zach Zarba said a foul on Jaden McDaniels “should have been called” on Kyrie Irving on the play that was reviewed, but officials couldn’t rule it a foul on the Dallas challenge because it was only reviewing who touched it last.”

As Zarba explained, the officials then were just looking for who touched the ball last. At the time, it was McDaniels. However, in the “post-game review, we did see illegal contact from Irving to the forearm of McDaniels that should have been called a foul.” Nevertheless, since the Mavs had already challenged an out-of-bounds call, the Wolves lost the chance to challenge the same play for a missed foul.

Anyway, there is no use discussing the past. After all, this NBA season has been notorious for the refereeing issues. The Wolves have two chances to make it even and then take it from there. However, the fans aren’t so easily forgiving.

The NBA world dropped fierce comments on league officiating for the Kyrie Irving foul on Jaden McDaniels

This season has been one for controversial officiating incidents. With coaches and players getting mad and frustrated with the refs for their no-calls and calls when there aren’t any, has claimed quite a chunk of headlines regularly. With the start of the postseason, it seemed to have dropped. Even so, tonight’s Kyrie Irving-Jaden McDaniels issue was one that NBA fans just couldn’t turn a blind eye to.

This one individual just can’t seem to wrap their head around the no-call. “@NBA needs to fix their rules. Replay where kyrie Irving fouls Jaden McDaniels gives them the ball…?” It’s clear that they were annoyed that despite Irving’s obvious foul, the ball was overturned to the Mavericks.