I could spend hours upon hours rattling off reasons why Karl-Anthony Towns is one of my all-time favorite basketball players–not just at Kentucky, but ever. Example No. 483 was what happened on Tuesday night at his high school alma mater, St. Joseph High School (NJ).
Towns, who graduated from St. Joseph in 2014 before establishing himself as a future No. 1 NBA Draft pick during his lone season at Kentucky, was recently inducted into his former high school’s Athletic Hall of Fame and will soon have his No. 44 jersey retired. The Hall of Fame ceremony was actually held on Friday, but Towns could not attend until Tuesday due to his NBA preseason schedule with the Minnesota Timberwolves.