T-wolves celebrate Karl-Anthony Towns, team scoring record

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This is Karl-Anthony Towns' seventh season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, his status well established as the franchise player for this long-languishing organization.

For the first time in his NBA career, Towns has said often, he's feeling fully appreciated.

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His latest feat was quite the showstopper: a franchise-record 60 points in a 149-139 win at San Antonio on Monday night. Towns did it in just 36 minutes, too.

"He’s just that talented. He’s just that type of player," teammate D'Angelo Russell said. "You look up and see 60 and the whole team happy. That’s everybody being selfless about it. I think that was more of what I appreciated. The performance was amazing, but everybody wanted to see it, too."

As Towns conducted a postgame television interview on the court, multiple teammates snuck up behind him and mischievously doused his head with water to mark the occasion of the most points scored by a NBA player this season.

The Timberwolves, from the bench to the locker room, have cheered each other on with childlike enthusiasm and a selflessness like no other in team history.

"I appreciate it so much, because I ain’t never been celebrated," said Towns, whose previous career best was a 56-point game against Atlanta on March 28, 2018. "They make these moments special."

Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is doused by teammate D'Angelo Russell, rear, after an NBA basketball game against the San Antonio Spurs on Monday, March 14, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)

Affable and emotional, Towns has been known to speak in hyperbole like this. The difference in chemistry