The New York Knicks finally got their man. For years, whispers around the NBA told the same story: Knicks head of basketball operations Leon Rose wanted Karl-Anthony Towns at Madison Square Garden. Some believed it was only a matter of time before it happened. And now it has.
The NBA landscape quaked once more — as if the Mikal Bridges trade in June wasn’t shell-shocking enough — when it was reported that Towns was headed to the Knicks in a package for Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo, with the Charlotte Hornets greasing the wheels as the third team.