With the rate that coronavirus is spreading, it was only a matter of time before it impacted the Kentucky Basketball family. Overnight, Karl-Anthony Towns announced that his mother, Jacqueline Cruz, has not only been diagnosed with COVID-19, but placed in a medically-induced coma.
In an emotional video on his YouTube page, Towns described his mother’s condition and issued a plea to fans to take the coronavirus seriously. Karl’s father, Karl Sr., is quarantined at home awaiting his own test results.
“I wanted to make this video to show the severity of this,” Towns said. “This disease is real.