NBA L2M: Karl-Anthony Towns Was Fouled by Terry Rozier on Pivotal Hornets-Wolves Play

Karl-Anthony Towns scored 62 points during Monday's game against the Charlotte Hornets, but he apparently should have been given the chance to score two more and perhaps lead his team to a victory.

With the Minnesota Timberwolves trailing by one in the final seconds, Towns drove toward the basket and lost the ball. Replay suggested he was fouled, but the officials didn't call it and the Hornets then put the finishing touches on a 128-125 win.

As Ian Begley of SNY noted, the NBA's last-two minute report revealed the big man should have been on the free-throw line:

The update is surely of little solace to Towns at this point considering he was robbed of the chance to play hero during a night when he was otherwise unbelievable.

He finished with 62 points and eight rebounds on 21-of-35 shooting from the floor and 10-of-15 shooting from deep. His performance was part of a head-turning night in the NBA, as Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid poured in 70 points in a win over the San Antonio Spurs.

Towns' 62 points set a franchise record for the Timberwolves, and his 44 points in the first half was the highest total in the play-by-play era, which dates back to the 1996-97 campaign.

Yet not even that was enough to defeat the 10-31 Hornets at home. Charlotte outscored Minnesota by 18 points in the fourth quarter alone, and the Timberwolves struggled to generate much offense when Towns was on the bench.

It is a loss that will surely sting, especially since it shouldn't have even come down to a missed call in the final seconds.

Minnesota is still 30-13, but it has lost two in a row and starts a four-game road trip on Wednesday. It is just a half-game ahead of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets in the race for the Western Conference's No. 1 seed, and it cannot afford to drop winnable games at home against some of the worst teams in the league.