Minnesota Timberwolves: Grading Karl-Anthony Towns’ season

Grading Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns' 2019-20 campaign was a bit of a surprising exercise, as it turned out...

Most NBA advanced stats are made up of two components: a box component and a plus-minus component. In other words, “What did the player do?” and “How did the team perform when he was on the court?”, respectively. In this case, we're examining Minnesota Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns and his impact on the Wolves' 2019-20 season.

For this reason, team-centric metrics like ESPN’s Real Plus-Minus (RPM) have a tendency to contradict others, and, at least when it comes to Towns, specifically FiveThirtyEight’s RAPTOR. Where RPM gives much more weight to the…