Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns wins NBA Rookie of the Year Award
Another NBA award handed out and once again, it’s there’s no debating the winner.
FOX’s Chris Hoenig reports:
Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks a game this season, becoming just the fifth player to win the NBA Rookie of the Year in a unanimous vote.
Towns is donating the Kia that he won as part of the award to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society in Flip Saunders’ honor. Saunders is the former Minnesota coach who died of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in October:
(Towns) “They’re like my family, they’re like a second family to me. I like seeing them every single day, it brings a smile to my face. I just knew right away that I wanted to do something special for Flip and I think that was the best way I could think of doing something so special for such a special man.”
Towns also making the donation in honor of two of his grandparents, who died of cancer, as well.
Chris Hoenig, FOX News.
