![]() He averages 17.5 points, 11.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 3.7 turnovers, and 3.5 fouls per game on 45/36/81 shooting in 13 career playoff games. However, they crumble away in the postseason. Towns has stellar career stats in the regular season: 23 points, 11.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1,7 turnovers, and 3.4 fouls per game with 53/40/84 shooting splits. In Wednesday’s already must-win Game 2, Towns followed up his 5-15, 11-point, five-turnover Game 1 with an even worse 3-12, 10-point, five-turnover, five-foul meltdown. Towns will hit a huge three and follow it up with two bad turnovers and a back-breaking offensive foul. It’s the stuff you’d expect out of a 21-year-old in his third season, not an eight-year vet in his third playoff run. For all the good Towns does on a basketball court, and all the stats he puts up, he is still making the same bone-head mistakes and low basketball IQ plays. In the next, he’s ramming a school bus into a bank and causing chaos everywhere he goes. One moment he’s kicking Batman’s ass 1-on-1. Karl-Anthony Towns plays as if the Joker was seven feet tall with a wet jumper. The only one who can decide his legacy is himself. And yet here he is, staring his future in the face. He’s the self-proclaimed “best shooting big man ever,” and has done just as much in the community as he’s done on the court in his eight years in Minnesota. He won Rookie of the Year in 2016, he’s a three-time All-Star, and twice he was named third-team All-NBA. He has made more threes than anyone in a Timberwolves jersey. Towns is second in Wolves history in points scored, rebounds, blocks, field goals, and turnovers. The first overall pick in 2015, Towns has established himself as the second-best player in franchise history behind Kevin Garnett. What does he have to show for it? For a player who NBA GMs twice chose as the player they would want to start a team with, and for all the talk about his legacy and a “championship or bust” mentality in Minnesota, what has KAT accomplished? Towns is two games away from completing his eighth season in the NBA, he’ll be 28 in November, and he’s nearing the midway point of his career. His latest playoff clunkers have put the Minnesota Timberwolves in a deep 0-2 hole against the Denver Nuggets. ![]() ![]() Karl-Anthony Towns is at a crossroads in his career.
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