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,

The Knicks are building something new, but like any major construction project, it takes time for all the pieces to fit. The blockbuster trade sending Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns marked a seismic shift at Madison Square Garden,