Karl-Anthony Towns shines in return to town | Lakers looking for trades?
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Karl-Anthony Town’s returned to Minnesota with the Knicks had a near perfect night as they demolished the Timberwolves. Dave DuFour, Zena Keita, and Jon Krawczynski discuss Towns’ return to Minnesota, a potential Wolves lineup change, and where the Wolves may look to improve. Then, Dave and Jovan Buha get into LeBron’s comments on the state of the game, the Lakers trade targets, and what happened to their offense.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita, Jon Krawczynski, Jovan Buha
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for December 20th, |
| 0:10.0 | 2024. |
| 0:11.0 | Coming up, Carl Anthony Towns was back in town in Minnesota, so we got John Krasinski to talk about it. |
| 0:16.0 | Yo Von Buhas stopped in to talk to me about some Lakers trades. |
| 0:20.0 | Zena, why are people complaining about ratings? |
| 0:24.4 | Isn't that like the thing to do? |
| 0:26.2 | I guess. It's boring. |
| 0:32.2 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. |
| 0:37.3 | Good evening, John Krasinski, live from Wolves, Knicks, |
| 0:42.5 | Carl Anthony Towns big return to town after being traded away to the Knicks. |
| 0:48.8 | And man, Zena, this game at times, I just felt like I was confused by what the wolves were trying to do. |
| 0:59.2 | I was shocked that Carl Anthony Towns played like this. |
| 1:02.4 | And the game got a little bit boring after a minute. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah, I don't think I was watching the game. |
| 1:08.2 | I started with a solid like, oh, look, Timberwolves got it together. |
| 1:11.6 | They're showing up. And I think I fell asleep towards the third, woke up at the top of the fourth. So, yeah, it was tough. It was a tough watch. Well, John, you were there. You've covered this team for a long time. You've covered Carl Anthony Towns for his entire career. I want to ask you just personally, |
| 1:29.1 | what was it like having him back in Minnesota and then to see him come through with this |
| 1:35.2 | sort of performance? I mean, just the statistics are pretty incredible. Tom Thibito, it was just |
| 1:42.3 | effusive in the praise that he gave him. |
| 1:47.3 | And I do want to put the numbers out there because I do think they're important. |
| 1:54.1 | 32 points, 20 rebounds, six assists, two steals, five of five from three. |
| 1:56.1 | Man, that would have good on the wolves tonight. |
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