Hey, Timberwolves, wake up and high-five Karl-Anthony Towns
C’mon, Minnesota Timberwolves. Your teammate Karl-Anthony Towns is legit amazing. I know it can be hard to stay attentive throughout the process of someone else’s free throws, but extend your hand to your man when he comes through looking for a little love, will you?
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After Towns made the first of a pair of freebies during the second quarter of the Wolves’ Saturday meeting with the New York Knicks, he reached out for some low-fives from his brethren … only to find Andrew Wiggins and Shabazz Muhammad asleep at the wheel. A lot has changed over the past half-dozen years in Minnesota, but apparently, not everything:
Neither Kevin Love nor Wesley Johnson wears a Timberwolves uniform anymore, but their spirits live on. (Or, rather, their ghosts haunt the halls they once roamed.) One can only hope an enterprising team reporter can follow in the footsteps of Jonah Ballow, who’s since moved on to cover the Knicks, by launching a full investigation into this failure to connect. After all, if we don’t learn from our mistakes, we’re doomed to repeat them.
Credit Towns, by the way, for refusing so simply mime his way through the motions, like James Harden and Gary Neal, or going the self-love route, like Andrew Bogut, Kosta Koufos, Steven Adams and Jabari Parker before him. He went after his dap, refusing to be left hanging and forcing his teammates to both acknowledge and respect him. Quite a bit of poise from the youngster.
Towns finished with 24 points, eight rebounds, four assists, three blocks and one steal in 41 minutes of work, but the Wolves fell to the Knicks, 103-95. Wiggins added 24 points and Muhammad pitched in 20 off the bench, but one suspects KAT wasn’t, like, racing to shake their hands on their production after the game. Turnabout’s fair play, after all.
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