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Karl-Anthony Towns shines in return to town | Lakers looking for trades?
20 Dec 2024
Karl-Anthony Town’s returned to Minnesota with the Knicks had a near perfect night as they demolished the Timberwolves. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Jon Krawczynski discuss Towns’ return to Minnesota, a potential Wolves lineup change, and where the Wolves may look to improve. Then, Dave and Jovan Buha get into LeBron’s comments on the state of the game, the Lakers trade targets, and what happened to their offense.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita, Jon Krawczynski, Jovan BuhaExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodySubmit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 20th, 2024. Coming up, Karl-Anthony Towns was back in town in Minnesota, so we got John Krasinski to talk about it. Jovan Buha stopped in to talk to me about some Lakers trades. Zena, why are people complaining about ratings? Isn't that like the thing to do? I guess. It's boring. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. Good evening.
John Krasinski live from Wolves, Knicks, Carl Anthony Towns, big return to town after being traded away to the Knicks. And man, Zena, this game at times, I just felt like. I was confused by what the wolves were trying to do. I was shocked that Carl Anthony Towns played like this. And the game got a little bit boring after a minute.
Yeah, I don't think I I was watching the game started with a solid like, oh, look, Timberwolves got it together. They're showing up. And I think I fell asleep towards the third, woke up at the top of the fourth. So, yeah, it was tough. It was a tough watch.
Well, John, you were there. You've covered this team for a long time. You've covered Carl Anthony Towns for his entire career. I want to ask you just personally, what was it like having him back in Minnesota and then to see him come through with this sort of performance? I mean, just the statistics are pretty incredible. Tom Thibodeau, it was just effusive in the praise that he gave him.
And I do want to put the numbers out there because I do think they're important. 32 points, 20 rebounds, six assists, two steals, five of five from three. Man, that would have looked good on the Wolves tonight.
It sure would have, Dave. I mean, you know, you're right. I've covered him his whole career. I've heard him disparaged, discounted, knocked down his whole career. And some of it has been valid, the criticism that he's gotten, certainly. But I've always felt like a lot of people didn't really look at the full context of who he is as a player, what the Timberwolves did and didn't do around him. And
And to see him kind of return here and absolutely lay waste to the Timberwolves was just a weird feeling. You know, I went to New York for the preseason game with them. And so I've seen him in a Knicks uniform before, but to see him in a Knicks uniform again, at Target Center, it was definitely weird. It's kind of like, this is really happening. And there he was.
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