Skip to main content
Come Fan with UsMonday, June 22, 2026

Karl-Anthony Towns is too tall to be this good

It should be illegal for a big man to have handles like this.

NBA: Los Angeles Lakers at Minnesota Timberwolves
NBA: Los Angeles Lakers at Minnesota Timberwolves
Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports

Karl-Anthony Towns is really good at basketball, and it seems he gets better every game.

On the first possession of Minnesota’s game against Boston on Monday, Towns dug deep into the treasure chest for this mammoth of a move that left Celtics big man Al Horford completely out of position.

Towns took the league by storm when he decisively won 2015’s Rookie of the Year award. The move he put on Horford looks a lot like a big man’s version of this James Harden step-back.

See More: