DENVER – The Timberwolves practiced Saturday in Ball Arena. As teammates shot three-pointers, Karl-Anthony Towns, the longest-tenured Wolves player, donned an oxygen mask and, working with a trainer, slammed a medicine ball against a wall, then went through a series of exercises that would have looked at home on a yoga mat or in a boot camp.
Towns' offensive skills led the Wolves to make him the first pick in the 2015 NBA draft and to him becoming an All-Star and self-proclaimed greatest shooting big man in history.
The Wolves were practicing Saturday because Towns defied every clichéd notion about him in Game 6 of this series.