The night Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid met in Philadelphia, Karl-Anthony Towns pointed out that there are now more than two incredibly talented centers in the NBA. In the Timberwolves’ 149-139 win over the Spurs on Monday, Towns went completely nuts, scoring 60 points on incredible performance.
Overall, he scored 19 out of 31 (61 percent).
He made seven of his 11 three-point attempts.
He made it to the free throw line 16 times, flopped 15 times.
Towns’ big night was tied to deeper emotions, as he shared on his Twitter in a series of tweets that Monday’s performance also happened two years before the date both his parents were admitted to the hospital with COVID-19. .
“Yesterday marked two years since my parents walked into the emergency room at JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey and were hospitalized with COVID-19.” Placed cities. “The same hospital where my mother gave me life, and sadly the same hospital where I saw her life begin to slip away. Two years later, I walked into the AT&T center with the greatest guardian angel I could ever dream of and dropped 60 against the best coach of all time.
“I say this to say… whatever life throws at you, you can come out of it stronger. Hard times don’t last long, but tough people stay. I miss you mom. This game… my life… is for you.”
Towns’ 60 points, a Timberwolves franchise record, is the highest league single-game total this season, surpassing LeBron James and Trae Young, both of whom scored 56 points. There were 56 cities in three quarters. He returned late in the fourth to put on a bow for his evening with the top-of-the-case 3.
Towns had a really good game with 24 points at halftime. He took him to the core with 32 points in the third quarter, the fifth most points ever scored in a single quarter, according to StatMuse.
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Towns’ night adds to the league’s recent run of high-scoring eruptions. There have been four 50-point games in the last two weeks alone: LeBron (50, 56), Jason Tatum (54) and Kevin Durant (53). Add to that 47 and 46 for Trae Young, 45 for Jordan Clarkson, 44 for Josh Hart and De’Aaron Fox (who also had 41), 43 for Giannis Antetokounmpo and Joel Embiid, 41 for Darius Garland and 40 for Nikola Jokic.
And now 60 Townes, which was the 15th game this season in which the player scored at least 50 points. Most importantly, the Wolves are now 10 games over .500 and just two games behind the Denver Nuggets for a top-six seed. The Wolves still have one game to play against Denver on April 1, and if they win that, they will also secure a 3-1 head-to-head tiebreak of the season.
In a season in which the Timberwolves surpassed all expectations, Towns was the driving force behind Minnesota becoming a playoff contender in the West. Monday night’s performance was the latest example of his impressive performance, and that Towns did it on a day when he shares such a tragic personal connection makes his performance all the more powerful.