{"id":151656,"date":"2025-08-16T23:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151656\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:07:35","slug":"the-crickets-around-karl-anthony-towns-knicks-arent-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/151656\/","title":{"rendered":"The crickets around Karl-Anthony Towns, Knicks aren&#8217;t surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An All-NBA selection is up for an extension, and nobody is talking about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lack of attention to Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019 situation is understandable after crunching the numbers, but I still find it noteworthy \u2014 and at least worthy of exploration \u2014 that the Knicks center has until Oct. 20 to add two years to his contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, he just averaged 24.4 points and 12.8 rebounds while shooting 42 percent on 3-pointers. He and Nikola Jokic were the only players with those types of numbers last season. Offensively, it was the best campaign for a Knicks center since Patrick Ewing\u2019s prime. Adding two more years to Towns\u2019 deal would further align New York\u2019s starting lineup contractually. The Knicks just gave a near max extension to a zero-time All-Star in Mikal Bridges. Towns has a handful of All-Star selections, including a fifth last season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, crickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An All-NBA selection is up for an extension, and nobody is talking about it.\u00a0 The lack of attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":151657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,24115,1260,405,403,3122,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-151656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115040960268232257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}