Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns scored 60 points against the Spurs, including a whopping 32 points in just the third quarter.
The performance was the highest total any player has reached so far this season. In the game, Towns also became the first center to score 60 points in a game since Shaquille O’Neal scored as many in 2000.
Perhaps most impressive: Towns stole the show on an evening when the two MVP frontrunners, Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic, faced off on ESPN. While basketball fans came into the night expecting to pin two excellent big men against one another, it was Towns who came out as the most exciting player of the night.
