Karl-Anthony Towns is an NBA champion, helping the New York Knicks break the franchise's 53-year championship drought this past season. Towns and Jimmy Butler were briefly teammates with the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2017-19, and their relationship soured over the course of that time. Butler famously called Towns a "loser" following his departure from Minnesota.
Now years later, Towns played a key role on a championship team, while Butler is still in search of his first title ring. Towns' father, Karl Towns, made that fact abundantly clear during a recent exclusive interview with Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic. Jimmy ain’t got no championship.
Karl bypassed him.” “I’ve kept my head down and continued to try to be the best human I could be in the world, be the best player I could be even when I needed things to work on,” Towns, who averaged 20.1 point and 11.9 rebounds per game in the playoffs, said. And this was a year where I finally had enough lessons to really put it together and was given the opportunity to do something special.” Butler tore his ACL in January, causing him to miss the remainder of his 2025-26 season with the Golden State Warriors. He's targeting a return date in early 2027.
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