{"id":51387,"date":"2025-11-25T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51387\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:08:10","slug":"the-karl-anthony-towns-these-knicks-have-been-waiting-for-finally-appeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/51387\/","title":{"rendered":"The Karl-Anthony Towns these Knicks have been waiting for finally appeared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Brown implored Karl-Anthony Towns to ignore the slump and keep shooting 3s. But the Knicks All-Star took a different approach<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/24\/sports\/knicks-extend-dominance-over-nets-to-historic-level\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> to pummeling the Nets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>He won by doing pretty much everything else \u2014 by scoring efficiently inside, by driving, by playmaking, by posting up, by bullying Nic Claxton.<\/p>\n<p>And in the end, he buried a few treys. A complete performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShooters shoot, of course. I know everybody wants me to shoot the 3-ball. But I\u2019m a more complete player than that,\u201d Towns said. \u201cAnd a lot of times, my career shooting the 3 allows me to get to the basket and opens the game up for myself and my teammates. And tonight was a good night where attacking the paint, getting some layups, tough layups, whatever the case may be, opened the basket up for me and made the 3-ball much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Brown implored Karl-Anthony Towns to ignore the slump and keep shooting 3s. But the Knicks All-Star took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[355,1555,1556,21,9,11,1104,10,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-51387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brooklyn-nets","9":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","10":"tag-mike-brown","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51387","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=51387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}