Tim Connelly went to KAT’s house to inform him he was being traded

Former Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns was told in a private conversation that he was being traded to the New York Knicks.

Towns, who was the center of a blockbuster trade with the Knicks in late September, told the Show roommates that he was home when Wolves president of basketball operations Tim Connelly came to his house to inform him of the trade.

“I didn’t get a call. Tim told me to my face that I was being traded,” KAT told the newspaper Show housemates, which is hosted by his current teammates Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart.

Brunson and the show’s other hosts seemed surprised by the news, but credited Connelly for breaking the news personally, showing “respect.”

“It was gangsta. I’m not going to lie,” KAT continued. “He came to my house. I respect it. Honestly, it’s a difficult situation regardless of what was going to happen. The fact that it happened like that, I have to respect him. It was me, three of my best friends and my father. So, shout out to him. He came to my house alone with five guys there who just started splashing and crashing out. So I definitely have to give him respect for that.

In the wake of the trade, Connelly has stated that he did not take the decision to trade a franchise player lightly. Connelly even said, “The whole idea of ​​trading people is, I think, pretty gross and weird.”

Towns said he found out he was being traded four minutes before NBA insider Shams Charania announced the news on social media.

“By the time the shock wore off, Shams had already tweeted,” Towns said.

Towns, who had spent his entire career in Minnesota since being taken No. 1 overall in the 2015 draft, said he thought he would spend his entire career there.

“I thought I was going to retire there,” Towns said. “I thought this would be the place I would call home for my entire career and beyond. But my former employer didn’t agree with that ideology I had. It is what it is.”