Knicks’ Karl-Anthony Towns is feeling all the love in return to Minnesota
NY Post
MINNEAPOLIS — It was a winter wonderland lovefest for Karl-Anthony Towns.
The center returned to snowy Minnesota with two planned video tributes Thursday night — one before the Knicks-Timberwolves tip-off, another during the game — as Towns gushed about the “warm feeling” of stepping back into the Target Center.
“I was here nine years. That’s a long time. I called this place home,” Towns said. “To be back here, to be able to sleep in my house one more time, it was really a nostalgic feeling.”
Towns, who spent nine seasons with the Timberwolves after being drafted first overall in 2015, was appropriately greeted with 6 inches of snowfall but dismissed the idea that he’d have trouble commuting to morning shootaround.
“That’s a New York question. That’s not a Minnesotan question,” Towns said. “Come on. I ain’t going to answer that one.”
Towns, unlike former Knick Julius Randle, clearly carries no ill-will about his former team or being traded just a day before training camp.
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