KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS: How I Survived the Hardest Year of My Life

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Feeling Welcome in New York

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The conversation turns to the trade that sent Towns from Minnesota to New York. He's candid about the shock: there were no signs, no rumors, not a single whisper in the NBA ecosystem before it happened. He went to his home office, saw a room full of Minnesota achievements, and realized the book had ended mid-sentence and he hadn't been consulted. 'I thought I was the author, and I became the character in the book.' ^{[1] — Karl-Anthony Towns "No whisper, no sign, no warning. Towns's Minnesota career ended in an instant, and he had to walk past his own trophies and accomplishments…" 48:04 Play} The bitterness is real but brief. He acknowledges, with genuine humility, that maybe he needed to go somewhere else to show his true worth — and that New York gave him the chance. There is still a bittersweet ache, he admits: part of him wished he could have brought the trophy to Target Center for the Minnesota fans who raised him. But he leaves that with grace.