Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
Karl-Anthony Towns is the best player nobody talks about
There was almost a 50% chance in the 2015 NBA draft lottery that Karl-Anthony Towns would land on the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers or Philadelphia 76ers, but the Minnesota Timberwolves held onto the No. 1 spot, and we have had a lot fewer discussions about Towns as a result. It is high time we have one.
Anyone who has watched the Timberwolves this season has noticed a different Towns — one more fiery and more committed to defense than ever before, which is all we ever really wanted to see from him — and it is translating to winning basketball, at least so much as it can on a young roster with a limited ceiling.
Yet, no one outside Minnesota is really talking about Towns, because we have long since written off…