{"id":827374,"date":"2026-07-26T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T15:17:09","slug":"this-is-a-career-changing-bucket-for-all-of-us-and-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/827374\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a career-changing bucket for all of us. And he \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you see that ball go through the hoop, what is that feeling? Are you even having thoughts? Karl-Anthony Towns: No. When you see me in the game, it\u2019s so loud I didn\u2019t hear the whistle. I just see people running on the court so my first reaction is to tell everyone to get off the court right now and stay focused on the game, but then I look back and see the ref grabbing the ball and I\u2019m like, Oh, it\u2019s a timeout. I see OG, and OG is very, uh, OG. He doesn\u2019t have a lot to say. Karl-Anthony Towns: New York all knows how OG is. I saw him, and it was one of those things \u2014 you want to hype him up and stuff. I have such a close friendship with OG. I was like, Nah, you\u2019re gonna get a hug for this one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/25\/magazine\/karl-anthony-towns-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:This is a career-changing bucket for all of us. And he gave us a chance. We still had to get a stop, and he gave us a chance to get that stop;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;This is a career-changing bucket for all of us. And he gave us a chance. We still had to get a stop, and he gave us a chance to get that stop&quot;}\" class=\"link \">This is a career-changing bucket for all of us. And he gave us a chance. We still had to get a stop, and he gave us a chance to get that stop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/25\/magazine\/karl-anthony-towns-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you see that ball go through the hoop, what is that feeling? Are you even having thoughts?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,17593,459,82],"class_list":["post-827374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}