Monday night was K arl-Anthony Towns' breakout game of the 2025-26 season ; after a bit of a slow start to life under new head coach Mike Brown, Towns finally erupted for the New York Knicks this season in a 119-102 win over the Washington Wizards. He put up 33 points, 13 rebounds, and five assists, putting both Alex Sarr and Marvin Bagley III in the weight room, as he provided production that was reminiscent of his very successful first season in the Big Apple.
Towns has put up six double-doubles in his first seven games this season, so it's not like he hasn't been stuffing the stat sheet like in years past. But it's his scoring that was finally unlocked on Monday. It was his first 30-point outing of the season (he had 22 games with 30 or more points last year), and in so doing, he p

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