With the first NBA regular season game just 19 days away, Karl-Anthony Towns's mind is understandably elsewhere.
The Timberwolves center found out last night that he has now lost seven family members because of complications from COVID-19, including his mother Jacqueline Cruz-Towns in April.
"I've been through a lot, obviously starting out with my mom," Towns said Friday. "Last night I got a call that I lost my uncle. I feel like I've been hardened a little bit by life and humbled."
The 25-year-old posted an emotional video on March 25 about his 58-year-old mother being placed on a ventilator and put into in a medically induced coma because of the coronavirus.