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Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young and Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns have been named the NBA’s Players of the Week for games played between Oct. 22 and Oct. 27. Young averaged 38.5 points, 9.0 assists and 7.0 rebounds per game for the Hawks. Towns, meanwhile, averaged 32.0 points, 13.3 rebounds and 5.0 assists per […]

It has only been a small sample, but Karl-Anthony Towns is making sure no one is sleeping on the Minnesota Timberwolves this season. Minnesota has played well through the early stages of this season. The Timberwolves are carrying a 3-0 record, which is tied for the second-best start in franchise history, and Towns is playing […]

Former player and now ESPN NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins dispelled the notion that the Minnesota Timberwolves were being overlooked coming into the 2019-20 NBA season. It seems his comments did not go unnoticed by big man Karl-Anthony Towns. The Timberwolves are now the only 3-0 team following their 116-109 win over the Miami Heat. Towns […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves will forever be linked to Flip Saunders as he served the team as its head coach. This time, Karl-Anthony Towns and the Wolves are led by his son, Ryan. Towns and the team decided to make their head coach feel at home with a kind gesture. Dane Moore revealed that their second […]

Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns has started the 2019-20 season off with a bang. Towns is just the sixth player in NBA history to record at least 35 points and 10 rebounds in each of his first two games of a season. The others are Wilt Chamberlain (three times), Karl Malone (two times), […]

D’Angelo Russell expressed hope of playing with two of his best friends on the same team one day. The former No. 2 overall pick is hoping to team up with draftmates Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns, two of his closest friends in the league after spending much […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves got a steal in undrafted rookie Naz Reid, and the team’s established players are baffled with his level of play and his draft position, most notably Karl-Anthony Towns and Noah Vonleh. Jace Frederick of the Twin Cities Pioneer Press had wonderful words to say about the big man, and Vonleh asked the […]

Now entering his fifth season in the NBA, Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Karl-Anthony Towns is looking to firmly establish himself as one of the best players in the entire league. Recently, the 23-year-old opened up about the type of impact 15-time All-Star and Timberwolves legend Kevin Garnett has had on his own career. According to Towns, […]

Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Karl-Anthony Towns has sent out a stern warning to the rest of the NBA. According to the 23-year-old, Towns and the rest of the Wolves have grown accustomed to playing the underdog role. Nonetheless, he believes that this is the very fuel they need to prove all their doubters wrong this season: […]

Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns knows he has to be “aggressive at all times” for Minnesota to win on a nightly basis. Timberwolves head coach Ryan Saunders wants his team shooting more 3-pointers this season, including Towns. KAT is a willing passer and loves to see his teammates flourish. However, the two-time All-Star is […]

Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves will face the Golden State Warriors on Thursday at the Chase Center in preseason game No. 2 for both teams. On his off day in The Bay, Towns had a funny interaction with someone. The Timberwolves star took to Twitter to explain it: Was at equinox here in the […]

It’s training camp season and spirits are high for all 30 NBA teams. The Minnesota Timberwolves don’t fall far from that description, as an injury-plagued side is now healthy enough to take the court, starting with point guard Jeff Teague, who sees big things ahead for teammates Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns. “I expect a […]

The NBA notified teams that it won’t allow players to wear the “ninja-style headbands” this upcoming season, but Minnesota Timberwolves star big man Karl-Anthony Towns apparently didn’t get the memo. Towns is still wearing the headband in his offseason workouts with fellow Timberwolves players. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2m6w0vJGfV/ Jimmy Butler, Jrue Holiday, Myles Turner, Mike Scott, De’Aaron Fox and Montrezl […]

Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is entering the next chapter of his career. The 23-year-old former Rookie of the Year has to step up even more for the Timberwolves to make a run after missing the playoffs in 2019. The fifth-year big man, at seven feet tall, developed his game in the offseason to learn […]

With the Minnesota Timberwolves looking to bounce back from a rather forgettable 2018-19 season, the team appear to be determined on developing a new role for cornerstone superstar Karl-Anthony Towns. Recently, Wolves team president Gersson Rosas spoke about how the team envisions Towns’ new function for the team this coming season, and as it turns […]

Karl-Anthony Towns is already one of the most well-rounded and effective players at his position, but the Minnesota Timberwolves center has been working on his handles through the course of this summer. The video below shows a few of the drills he has been going through, as well as combining his deft handle with his […]

There’s still some time before the 2019-20 NBA season begins in earnest, so players like Karl-Anthony Towns and Paul George are getting all the fun and games out of their system before heading to training camp. The two stars got together and played it up for the camera. Unfortunately, it involved a bit of cartoon […]

NBA players love playing the NBA 2K series as it is one of the best basketball games on the market. However, it seems like the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns is frustrated with his 2K20 rating and is taking it out on popular 2K figure Ronnie Singh. Singh, better known to the gaming public as Ronnie […]

Expectations are fairly high for Minnesota Timberwolves swingman Jarrett Culver after being selected with the sixth overall pick of the NBA Draft back in June. Fortunately for him, he has been having a great time with Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins: “It’s been great interacting with (Towns and Wiggins),” Culver said, according to Max Hengst […]

Former Minnesota Timberwolves interim coach Ryan Saunders is now promoted as a full-time head coach and one of the first things on his wish list is seeing franchise superstar Karl-Anthony Towns work on his pick-and-roll defense. According to Chris Hine of Star Tribune, the young coach feels that Towns needs to improve his defense for […]

Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas wants to build around All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns similar to the way the Houston Rockets have built their team around 2018 MVP James Harden. Rosas worked with the Rockets before taking the Timberwolves job this summer: Rosas said the Wolves will build around KAT much like […]

It’s a new era for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Gone are Tom Thibodeau and others who prevented Minnesota from joining the modern age of NBA basketball, replaced by a combination of forward-thinking decision-makers who both maintain the Timberwolves’ longstanding sense of family and will no doubt stray from that organizational edict to push the team to […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves enter the 2019-20 NBA season with new vigor with Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins leading the charge once more. Unlike last season where they had to deal with issues that involved Jimmy Butler, the road ahead seems pretty wide open. One reason for that is the emergence of Towns. The 23-year-old has […]

The 2019-20 NBA campaign is still two months away, but we already know the prime candidates for the MVP award. Your Kawhi Leonards, Giannis Antetokounmpos, James Hardens, that sort of thing. But there are some players who you wouldn’t normally consider to be top MVP candidates who actually do have a shot of winning the […]

An anonymous NBA executive says his team, and every other team in the league for that matter, will start “circling” around Karl-Anthony Towns after the Minnesota Timberwolves endure a “couple more years of losing.” Towns signed a five-year, $158.25 million extension with the Timberwolves last summer. Minnesota is nowhere near close to contending in the […]

All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns believes the Minnesota Timberwolves will “have a really good team” in 2019-20. Towns says the Timberwolves can’t rush anything and have to take it day by day if they want to make the playoffs in the rugged Western Conference. “We all can’t rush in and think we’re going to win […]

The general consensus is that because Minnesota is a small market, NBA stars do not want to play there because they won’t have as many opportunities as far as endorsements and things of that nature. But Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns, who originally believed that notion, says it’s completely false: “I thought when you were in […]

Minnesota is not typically a city in which NBA players love playing, which is what makes the fact that Kevin Garnett actually enjoyed spending his first 12 seasons there and actually went back to end his career there all the more unique. But perhaps Karl-Anthony Towns will follow in Garnett’s footsteps. In spite of making just […]

Karl-Anthony Towns seems perfectly happy to be a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, but that does not mean he approves of the way he has been utilized up until this point. As a matter of fact, Towns feels he has been compromised quite a bit and thinks Ryan Saunders could be the man to change […]

Minnesota Timberwolves star center Karl-Anthony Towns has no hard feelings toward good friend D’Angelo Russell for choosing the Golden State Warriors instead of joining forces with him. D’Angelo Russell entered the summer as one of the top free agents on the market. The Timberwolves were one of the teams favored to get him. Karl-Anthony Towns […]

Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the only true star left on his team. Jimmy Butler left unceremoniously last season, and Andrew Wiggins has not developed into the player he was expected to become when he was drafted first overall in 2014. The team’s pursuit of D’Angelo Russell ended with the guard being sent to Golden […]

Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns had some negative things to say about former coach Tom Thibodeau’s development style on Thursday. The big man claimed that Thibodeau actually held back the development of young players, both on and off the court: “And that’s a disrespect and a slap in the face to their development, you know, […]

Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns is looking forward to having a full year of Ryan Saunders as his head coach. Saunders took over for Tom Thibodeau on Jan. 6. The Timberwolves went 17-25 under Saunders and missed the playoffs after making it in 2017-18. Towns is excited for the 2019-20 season. He believes […]

The NBA free agency frenzy has ended. With the regular season two months away, this is a great time to determine where players rank among their respective positions. Center is an intriguing position to rank in today’s NBA. Despite the league featuring plenty of small-ball lineups, centers remain the backbone of most teams’ defenses. The […]

New Minnesota Timberwolves president Gersson Rosas has impressed many with his aggressive style, hitting the ground and running upon his hire, surrounding himself with like basketball minds and putting the pieces in place to tackle this upcoming season with a bolstered roster. Yet his main weapon remains Karl-Anthony Towns, a player he deems as one […]

Just like the rest of the NBA world, Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star big man Karl-Anthony Towns is fascinated by Kawhi Leonard’s free agency, also known as #KawhiWatch. Leonard has yet to make his free agency decision. The Timberwolves star feels like the NBA has never seen anything like #KawhiWatch before: Have we ever witnessed something like […]

Talks of free agent All-Star guard D’Angelo Russell potentially joining the Minnesota Timberwolves are starting to heat up according to reports. The Wolves are still trying to make some trades that will allow them to free enough cap space to sign the former Brooklyn Nets star, but it seems that D’Lo and Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns […]

The NBA has changed. No longer are the head honchos in charge. Sure, they write checks and pay for hotels, meals, and shake hands, but how much power do they actually have? In the early days of the NBA, it was their way or nothing else. In today’s game, the real power goes to the […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves seem to be brewing something up as rumor has it that Karl-Anthony Towns has set up private meetings with a couple of free agents. Per Sagar Trika of the Early Bird Rights, JJ Redick — who’s currently a free agent — revealed that Towns has set up some meetings some free agents. […]