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Top pick Towns vows to deliver for Timberwolves

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Jun 25, 2015; Brooklyn, NY, USA; NBA draft pick Karl-Anthony Towns walks off stage after being picked …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Karl-Anthony Towns is a young man with many gifts, but the 19-year-old top pick of the National Basketball Association Draft vowed to give all he can to help turn around his new team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The 19-year-old Towns, who has thrived academically and aspires one day to become a doctor, is focused on helping to cure the ills of the Wolves, who have missed the playoffs for the last 11 years.