Karl-Anthony Towns Open Up At Retiring At Timberwolves

Karl-Anthony Towns felt he was going to be part of that select group of players who spent their entire career with one team, but it wasn’t to be. Towns recently appeared on the Roommates Show, where he stated he thought he was going to retire with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

“I thought I was gonna retire there,” Towns said. “I thought it was gonna be the place I called home for my whole career and then after, but my former employer did not agree with that ideology I had. It is what it is. I’m here now, with my two guys here, and hoping that we can do something special for the city.”

Co-host and new teammate Josh Hart then asked Towns about his viral post on X, featuring just three dots, prior to the trade to the New York Knicks and he explained why he put it out.

“I just know how the world works, and I was as stunned as everybody,” Towns said. “I really just put ‘dot, dot, dot’ because I couldn’t come up with words to try to be the one to break my own news, because I already knew it was gonna get leaked.”

Towns spent the first nine seasons of his career with the Timberwolves after they selected him with the first pick of the 2015 NBA Draft. Despite the team struggling massively at various points during his tenure, the four-time All-Star never asked out.

Towns signed a four-year, $220.4 million extension with the Timberwolves in 2022 and was determined to help turn things around. Unfortunately for the 28-year-old, he was shipped out of town just as things turned around.

In the offseason following a trip to the Western Conference Finals, Towns was traded to the Knicks in a move that brought Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to the Timberwolves. He was focused on helping the team go a step further in 2025, but they had other ideas.

Towns’ Timberwolves career has ended with averages of 22.9 points, 10.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 0.8 steals, and 1.3 blocks per game. He now looks to help the Knicks get to the Promised Land and I give them a good shot at making it to the NBA Finals. The Boston Celtics, who they’ll face on opening night, remain the favorites in the East, though.

Karl-Anthony Towns Revealed How He Found Out The Timberwolves Were Trading Him

We have often heard about NBA players finding out they got traded from insiders like Shams Charania, but that wasn’t the case here. Towns revealed Timberwolves president Tim Connelly pulled up to his house on the night of the trade.

“I didn’t get called. Tim told me to my face that I was traded. I was in Minnesota, he came to the crib. It’s a tough situation regardless of what would have happened but the fact that it happened that way, I got to give him respect. It was me, three of my closest friends, and my pops, so shout out to him, he came to a house by himself with five dudes there who could’ve started spazzing out and crashed out and said we alright. So I gotta give him respect for that for sure.”

You do have to respect that. Considering this wasn’t an ugly exit, you wonder if Towns perhaps will return to the Timberwolves toward the end of his career. It’s clear he has a lot of love for the team and the city, and it would be great to see him playing for the Timberwolves again at some point.