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Randle had to be held back by teammates at the end of the game.

For those who don’t know basketball, here’s a quick refresher on one of the game’s primary rules. When you dribble along the court with the ball, you need to keep moving to maintain control over it. If you stop with the ball, you have to either shoot it or pass it to a teammate. If you try to start moving with the ball again, that’s traveling, and it’s penalty-worthy. Good? Okay, moving on.

On Monday night, the New York Knicks played a fierce game against their rivals and fellow New Yorkers, the Brooklyn Nets. In the last leg of the game, the score was an extremely close 115-112, with the Knicks down by 3 points. In the last 5 seconds of the game, the Knicks’ Julius Randle made a go at a three-pointer, but was contested by the Nets’ Kyrie Irving. Randle jumped up to make his shot, but when Irving interfered, he held tight onto the ball and came back down. Referee Scott Foster blew the whistle on Randle for up-and-down traveling, but based on the replay, Irving’s hand did make contact with the ball, leading Randle to contest the call. Foster wouldn’t give Randle’s objections any room, and forced the game to continue, eventually resulting in the Nets cementing their victory at 117-112.

Julius Randle was called for a travel down 3 and under 5 seconds remaining.

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— ESPN (@espn) March 16, 2021

When the game ended, Randle began to advance menacingly toward midcourt, presumably in search of Foster, but his teammates swiftly jumped in and escorted him back to the locker room, though not before Randle angrily smacked a chair on his way out.

After the game, when talking to reporters, Foster did concede that Irving touched the ball, but in his words, it wasn’t “dislodged” from Randle’s hands, which is what prompted his traveling call.

Randle, meanwhile, did his best not to put his foot in his mouth, keeping his comments on the matter neutral. “There was a conversation, but I think it’s just best that I don’t comment on the situation,” he told reporters. “There’s a lot of frustration behind it, for both sides. I’ll just let it be in the past and just move onto the next game.”