Since last November, Wolves have been composing without Karl-Anthony Towns. Injured in the leg, no news is coming about his state of health, while the playoffs are coming in a few weeks…
100 days exactly that Karl-Anthony Towns is kept away from the parquet floors. Injured in the calf since November 28 in a meeting against the Wizards, the Wolves are forced to do without their “lethal weapon”. Today, many are wondering about his state of health just a month before the postseason.
Non-contact injury…KAT immediately holding his leg…thoughts and fingers crossed… pic.twitter.com/5zHLFax2hU
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) November 29, 2022
In fourteen weeks, we hoped that KAT would push back the floors of the big league, or at least that we would have signs of healing from the inside, but nope. However, the injury seemed benign at first sight: in January, the medical staff of Minnesota had concluded that 6 weeks would be necessary to Charles-Antoine to come back in force. Then in February, just before the All-Star Game, Shams Charania de The Athletic indicated that the interior would return to play the last 15 games of the regular seasonjust to get back in shape before the Playoffs. But today at 17 meetings before the deadline, still no clear announcement. Return rumors with no real return is the only information Wolves fans have, reported by Dan Moore, insider on the side of Minneapolis. The latter explains that the triple All-Star would be active in training, but that no timeline has not fallen at present.
Lot of people asking me if KAT was at practice yesterday. Yes he was.
I don’t know what he did in terms of participation. We only get to enter once the full-team part of practice is over. We basically only see individual drills — which I didn’t see KAT doing. But I did see him.
— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) March 7, 2023
I know there have been no updates on an injury that has now been 14 weeks, and I get that lack of info is frustrating to you as fans.
But we don’t know anything either. We also haven’t been given any updates
We ask about it often — and the answer is always “there’s no timeline”
— Dane Moore (@DaneMooreNBA) March 7, 2023
If Wolves have been able to make up for Karl-Anthony Towns’ absence at the moment – an acceptable 24-22 record without their power winger this season – his return would not hurt. Individually, KAT is 23 points, 11 rebounds and 3 career assists. A 2m11 offensive leader capable of stringing 3-point baskets with crazy skill for a player of this stature: 39% in this exercise since his arrival in the NBA. A contribution which, for example, would surely have avoided being routed by the Sixers of Joel Embiid, who did not respect Rudy Gobert too much this night.
And before thinking about postseason dreams, it would still be necessary to access them. With the loss to Philly and the recent successes of the Lakers, Suns and Warriors, KAT team is 7th of an ultra-competitive West. OKC, just 3 wins from the Timberwolves, is in eleventh place. It would therefore suffice to have a bad series of defeats at the end of the season to be ejected from the rest of the events. And even if the Wolves arrive in the spring, the situation is far from comfortable: the objectives are far from certain compared to expectations at the start of the season. Beware the fall.
In other words, it smells scorched for the Wolves in the absence of KAT until the end of the season. The inside will necessarily have to come back quickly if he wants to hope that his team manage to produce a semblance of play once they arrive in April.