Like moving to the four, or power forward, when they made the trade for Gobert. Finch said Towns best and most selfless basketball came last season in the playoffs, when the team asked him to guard Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic in the first two rounds of the playoffs.

There are about 220 million valid ways to dissect the shocking trade that sent Karl-Anthony Towns to New York on the eve of NBA training camp. There’s the unusual timing on both sides. For the Timberwolves,

Minnesota Timberwolves star guard Anthony Edwards addresses the absence of his fellow All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns.