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Karl-Anthony Towns Calls Minnesota "Home" As He Returns To Face Timberwolves

The 29-year-old big man is set to take on his former teammates on the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday night.

(CBS Minnesota)

December 20, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — You can take Karl-Anthony Towns out of Minnesota, as the New York Knicks did with an offseason trade, but Towns' comments ahead of his return to Target Center show the inverse is certainly not true.

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The 29-year-old big man is set to take on his former teammates on the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday night — appropriately, in the midst of the biggest snowstorm of the winter so far. But when asked if the snow caused travel troubles, Towns was defiant.

"That's a New York question, that's a very New Yorker question. That's not a Minnesotan question," he said. "I ain't gonna answer that."

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