The emotions welled in Karl-Anthony Towns as he found out he had been named an All-Star for the second consecutive year.
Towns, in a video the Timberwolves released on social media, broke down crying as his parents came to congratulate him.
On Friday, Towns said the honor came at the end of a trying year both personally and professionally.
“It meant a lot to me, especially through everything I’ve went through from work to personal life,” Towns said. “A lot of emotion came out when I found out because I just felt like I had so much doubt against me and I worked so tremendously hard on my body, on my mind, on my spirit.