The Reason the Knicks are World Champions
When the New York Knicks traded for Karl-Anthony Towns right before the 2024 training camp; the instant reaction was heavily cautious. Towns has been largely labeled as a player with a horrible contract and someone who couldn’t get out of his own way. “Can Towns swallow that ego come into this situation… and just surrender that [ego] for the good of the team? He hasn’t done that yet for Minnesota.” Those words were uttered by me on my own podcast right after the trade was announced. I was warning Knicks fans that they would regret the day they traded for Karl-Anthony Towns. Boy was I wrong. The trade for Towns felt like a true fork in the road moment in real time. It was a surprise to everyone given the state of both teams. The Knicks had gotten eliminated by the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals and were looking to move past the second-round playoff wall they had run into. Mitchell Robinson wasn’t going to be ready for the start of the 2024 season because...
