MINNEAPOLIS – A positive COVID-19 case for star player Karl-Anthony Towns, plus contact tracing, forced the postponement of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ home game Friday with the Memphis Grizzlies.
Towns revealed Friday that he has tested positive, months after his mother and six other relatives died from COVID-19.
Minnesota’s next game on the schedule is Monday, the league’s traditional game on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Atlanta. The news that any player has the virus would be crushing, and that it was Towns was particularly so given what his family has endured.
“Karl is the most important part of this organization,” Timberwolves President Gersson Rosas said. “For what he’s gone through, what Karl Sr.’s gone through, it couldn’t be more heartbreaking today.”
-information from the Associated Press was used in this report-
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