What a difference a year makes for Karl-Anthony Towns’ All-Star vote
NY Post
OKLAHOMA CITY — Karl-Anthony Towns’ market bump in the All-Star voting didn’t go unnoticed by his teammate.
“KAT, you see the difference between New York and Minnesota?” Josh Hart said Friday morning before the Knicks’ 117-107 loss to the Thunder. “Difference of a million.”
Towns, who had 17 points and 22 rebounds in the loss, received roughly 1.1 million votes in the first returns of the fan All-Star ballot, the third-highest in the East behind just Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jayson Tatum.
Last year with the Timberwolves, Towns only accumulated just 139,642 votes in the first round of fan voting.
So it’s not quite a million, but close enough.
“Geographical differences,” Towns, a four-time All-Star but never a starter, answered Hart.
CHICAGO — If it’s not a minutes distribution problem, it’s a depth problem.
Even after the Rangers snapped their four-game losing streak with a win over the Bruins on Thursday night, the hole they have to climb out of to get back into the playoff picture is no joke.
At this point in the offseason, the Yankees have a pretty good idea of what the back end of their bullpen will look like, with newly acquired Devin Williams sliding into the closer role and Luke Weaver setting up the ex-Brewer and finishing games on occasion.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Karl-Anthony Towns’ market bump in the All-Star voting didn’t go unnoticed by his teammate.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Isaiah Hartenstein played his former team Friday on a production binge with the Thunder.
Normally, when a team signs a player just two years removed from winning an MVP award, there aren’t many questions about how he’ll play in the near future.
Mike Kafka’s future could turn in a lot of different directions.
Before he was a Tush Push expert, Jalen Hurts was the type of gift that could make every downtrodden Giants fan feel differently about last week’s win.
If the Rangers are going to make history by coming from seven points back of a playoff spot the first week of January with seven teams to pass in order to qualify for the tournament, then Jonathan Quick is not a bad place to start.
Karl-Anthony Towns was coached by Tom Thibodeau for 2 ¹/₂ seasons early in his NBA career in Minnesota, and they didn’t always see eye-to-eye over the young big man’s development.