Karl-Anthony Towns got a huge surprise when it was announced that he would be inducted into the Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame. The former No. 1 overall pick only spent one season (2014-15) with the Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team, but that didn’t stop him from making a big impact on the program.

Towns played 39 games in which he averaged 10.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 2.3 blocks per game and led the Wildcats to the 2015 NCAA tournament Final Four, where the Wisconsin Badgers stopped them.

Towns left the program as a very exciting prospect, which led the Minnesota Timberwolves to pick him and make him their franchise cornerstone. Now, with the Knicks, Towns received major news right after speaking with fellow alum Mark Pope, the current coach of the Wildcats.

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