Can Karl-Anthony Towns block out instability, put Timberwolves on his back?

Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns, center, poses with new team ownership partners Marc Lore, right, and baseball great Alex Rodriguez, leftThere is a complicated answer and a simple answer to explain why the Timberwolves have struggled in recent years.

Complicated: They are a franchise that always seems to have something go wrong, leading to restarts and the sort of instability that never allows real traction.

Simple: Their best player, Karl-Anthony Towns, missed 22 of 72 games last season and 29 of 64 games the year before that, preventing the Wolves from getting more than a passing glance at how their most recent reboot featuring Towns, D'Angelo Russell and Anthony Edwards looks on…