Karl-Anthony Towns is expected to take the floor Monday against the Sacramento Kings after a wild three days since surviving a car accident. The Minnesota Timberwolves center was involved in a car accident on Thursday, Feb. 21 after being rear-ended by a semi-truck and trailer, escaping with only a minor injury.

The 7-footer returned to practice on Monday after clearing the concussion protocol, feeling fortunate events played out how they did:

“It's been a blessed three days, just to be here talking to y'all and to be able to do what I'm doing is a blessing,” said Karl-Anthony Towns. “Accident could have [gone], I'd say I had a 5 percent chance of making it out alive, I hit the 5 percent mark. I'd say 4 percent was to be seriously injured, the 1 percent was to be minorly injured — and I came out in the 1 percent, so that's not bad.

Karl-Anthony Towns explained how the car ahead of the one he was riding in, a 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe, came to a sudden stop, reacting to an accident ahead of him, which caused a hard stop from the Santa Fe.

His trainer, Kurt Joseph, had told Towns that the car behind them wasn't stopping — something Towns didn't come to realize until after the accident:

“I'm just glad everyone is safe in accidents,” said Towns. “Everyone is alive. It could have been much worse. In all honesty I shouldn't have made it out like I did, but I'm glad I did.

“There is so many ways I could have passed on and died that day. The seatbelt is definitely one of them — I've done PSAs about driving with seatbelts, not driving and texting, stuff like that — if I didn't have that seatbelt, I'm going right through the windshield on that 35-West.”

Karl-Anthony Towns isn't only a major component of the Timberwolves, but also a player the community has learned to embrace. He just gave everybody a glimpse of how fragile life can be, and that even monstrous 7-footers can face a similar fate as many do on a daily basis in car accidents.