The Timberwolves are Karl-Anthony Towns' team now

CHARLOTTE – Before the Timberwolves' opening game against Brooklyn, Karl-Anthony Towns pulled out a book by the Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran and began reading.

Towns is a fan of Gibran, specifically his most famous work, "The Prophet," which has sold millions of copies since its original publication in 1923. It's a collection of over two dozen prose poems that touch on life's major issues — love, family, freedom, friendship and death. It came recommended to Towns by his cousin, and then Towns saw it in a bookstore.

"That book, at a time in my life I needed help and needed wisdom, it gave me everything I needed …" Towns said. "I always feel like when I go into Barnes & Noble, it's…