MIAMI

Karl-Anthony Towns has spent nearly half his life in the NBA. The Knicks’ big man is in his 12th season. But the NBA wasn’t his first job and maybe not his first love.

His first job was at Menlo Park Mall in New Jersey, working at a sports memorabilia shop. And his latest venture, after partnering with Topps sports cards, is an Instagram account — bigbodegacards — in which he playfully opens up packs of cards and checks whether he’s scored big or lost money on the pack.

But it’s not the money, even if the real job affords him the ability to take a loss on a pack that doesn’t contain the big money cards, that has lured him back. It’s something he loved as a child and now can renew his passion.

When I raised the subject to him, he said, “Now you want to touch my soul.

“I did [alw

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