{"id":272949,"date":"2026-06-21T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272949\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:25:15","slug":"why-do-you-think-new-york-city-fell-in-love-with-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272949\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do you think New York City fell in love with your \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Karl Towns Sr. is the proud papa of NBA champion Karl-Anthony Towns, who was a key component in the team\u2019s playoff run \u2014\u00a0which snapped a 53-year championship drought. Papa Towns take a shot at some Father\u2019s Day Q&amp;A with Post columnist Steve Serby.\u00a0 Q: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/20\/sports\/karl-towns-sr-tells-the-post-why-this-will-be-best-fathers-day-yet-after-son-fulfills-late-mothers-knicks-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Post\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Why do you think New York City fell in love with your son Karl-Anthony? A: Because he\u2019s humble, caring, loving. And he wanted to\u00a0bring something to New York\u00a0that they\u2019ve been thirsting for 53 years. When he puts on that jersey, he knew every time he put it on he was representing his mother, the city, and he wanted to give them a chance to be where they were yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/20\/sports\/karl-towns-sr-tells-the-post-why-this-will-be-best-fathers-day-yet-after-son-fulfills-late-mothers-knicks-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Post\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karl Towns Sr. is the proud papa of NBA champion Karl-Anthony Towns, who was a key component in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[679,9,24,55,54,56,90111,15480,15481,4503,1935,15482,37108,1334,950,4500,690,4499,691,949,682],"class_list":["post-272949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-accessfree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sourcehoops-hype","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcelebrities-entertainment-news","tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","tag-tagkarl-anthony-towns","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnew-york","tag-tagnew-york-knicks","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}