Karl-Anthony Towns

With Karl-Anthony Towns deserving acknowledgment as the unanimous rookie of the year for the 2015-16 season and the NBA Draft heating up after Tuesday night’s lottery, a debate came into my mind. If I could pick any big man in the NBA to start my franchise with and have as the cornerstone of my franchise [...]

Karl-Anthony Towns just followed in Stephen Curry’s footsteps. Sort of. Just like the Golden State Warriors point guard unanimously won the NBA’s 2016 MVP award, the Minnesota Timberwolves neophyte wrapped up 2016 NBA Rookie of the Year honors without facing any real challenger: [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/732210966893629445] Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated provided a snapshot of [...]

John Wall is a smart dude. And probably a bit of a Kentucky homer. Ahead of the Washington Wizards’ 104-98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night, Wall was asked who deserved to be named the NBA’s Rookie of the Year. He, of course, chose fellow Kentucky alum Karl-Anthony Towns, per Kyle Ratke of [...]

Will the Golden State Warriors be making a move at the NBA’s trade deadline? LOL. Oh, you’re serious? Well, then here’s general manager Bob Myers on the teams plans, per Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group: Bob Myers to 95.7 The Game on trade deadline "It'd have to be something unbelievable to really [...]

Kevin Garnett has no qualms with Minnesota Timberwolves interim head coach Sam Mitchell. He may be in the minority. Still, what the 39-year-old forward is saying matters. The Timberwolves essentially employ him as a player coach—that powerful voice and steadying presence who commands respect in the locker room and the ears of young stars. What [...]

It should be clear to anybody not too wrapped up in the Porzingis mania that Karl-Anthony Towns is living up to his billing as the number one draft pick. He is easily the best rookie in the NBA this season. Through 48 games Towns is averaging 16.6 points, 9.9 rebounds 1.8 blocks and 1.4 assists [...]

When the New York Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis with the fourth-overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft, they were rolling the dice. Here was a talented 7-footer with, at the time, the ceiling of a generational talent and the floor of a bust. It was a risky move and a gutsy, dare-to-be-amazing call by team [...]

Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns plans on rivaling New York Knicks newbie Kristaps Porzingis for years to come. Make that decades to come. Following the Knicks’ Tuesday night victory over the Timberwolves, a game the marked the first time these two Rookie of the Year candidates squared off, Towns waxed optimism at the thought of [...]

Nikola Pekovic believes that his day with the Minnesota Timberwolves will come once again. Forgive us if we don’t share those sentiments. Pekovic has yet to play this season as he recovers from Achilles tendon surgery, and he’s appeared in just 85 games over the last three campaigns. Now, apparently, he’s nearing a return—one that [...]

Karl-Anthony Towns is a monster. We knew the Minnesota Timberwolves selected a special talent at No. 1, someone who projected as the future of all big men, that three-point-shooting, rebound-wrangling, shot-blocking machine. But it was unclear how long it would take for him to develop into the complete package. He was mostly used as a [...]