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NBA leaves a mistake at Luka Doncic NO-Call in Refs' latest NBA playoffs blunder

The head coach of Lakers, JJ Redick, can feel a little confirmed that he was indeed right that the referees misunderstood the call when Jaden McDaniels were not called a foul on Sunday after the stumbling from Luka Dončić against the Timberwolves player late on Sunday.

In its last 2-minute report, the NBA admitted that the call had been missed and that the officials should have made a call in this specific instance.

“McDaniels (min) occurs in Doncics (LAL) path and initiates the illegal foot contact that loses it to the loss of its balance,” the NBA wrote in the report.

The Lakers star had tried to move the ball over half a place when he got in touch with McDaniel's foot and lost his balance.

The Los Angeles Lakers Guard Luka Doncic (77) calls a break after the striker of Minnesota Timberwolves, Jaden McDaniel (3), calls for the fourth round of the first round for the 2025 NBA playoff in the target center. IMagn pictures about Reuters Connect

The game occurred with a little more than 30 seconds in the game, and the Lakers were only one.

Los Angeles got a break, but they turned around the ball and the game ended shortly afterwards with a loss of 116-113.

After the game, Redick was angry with the call and found that Dončić had been stumbled down when trying to advance the ball.

JJ Redick praises due to a Minnesota Timberwolves player, who in the third quarter of the first round of the first round for the NBA Playoffs 2025 in the third quarter of the first round in the third quarter. Matt Blewett-Mimagn pictures
Luka Doncic (77) reacts after a foul called the Lakers in the first half of game 4 of an NBA basketball playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday, April 27, 2025 against the Minnesota Timberwolves. AP

“Luka stumbled. It was an obvious journey. He not only falls alone. We watched and he was stumbled. We should have been on the free -wire line, that is not an excuse for why we lost, but he was fouled,” said Redick.

It is the second missed call of an NBA official in a big moment in so many days after the crew boss David Guthrie admitted that a foul should have been called hard when he contacted Tim Hardaway Jr. on his Summer-Beater that the game had won for the pistons.

“During the live game, it was judged that Josh Hart made a legal defensive game,” said Guthrie. “After the review after the game, we found that hard -and -mortar has made physical contact, which is more than marginal to Hardaway jr. and a foul should be called up.”

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