As little as two weeks ago, New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns was still a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, gearing up to improve upon the team’s

Six draft night deals, descending contracts and a CBA-busting set of sign-and-trades were just a bit of what it took to get Karl-Anthony Towns in a Knicks jersey.

The weekend before the preseason began, New York agreed to its second colossal transaction of the summer, sending Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Towns, a man the Knicks had kept in the corner of their sightline for years. But the trade hardly ended with those three people.