Watch a young Karl-Anthony Towns interview ‘idol’ Kevin Durant (Ball Don’t Lie)
Before he was the No. 1 overall pick in the NBA draft, the starting center on the Minnesota Timberwolves and one of just four players in the last 30 years to log double-doubles in six of his first eight NBA games, Karl-Anthony Towns was just a starstruck high-school basketball player thrilled by the chance to interview one of his basketball idols. [ Play Yahoo Daily Fantasy and get a 100% deposit bonus with your first deposit ] During Thursday night's broadcast of the Timberwolves' 129-116 loss to the Golden State Warriors, TNT showed a clip from the archives of New York metropolitan area high school sports network MSG Varsity in which a precocious high-school freshman named Karl Towns, who'd just begun starring at St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, N.J., chopped it up with Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Kevin Durant before a matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers. It is pretty great. "Did anyone in your whole life playing basketball — did they ever make you feel that you had to work harder than them, and they acted like they were better just to make you feel like a better player and be a better player?" Towns asks, in a...
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