{"id":29847,"date":"2024-03-08T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/29847\/wolves-karl-anthony-towns-to-have\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:22:58","slug":"wolves-karl-anthony-towns-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=29847","title":{"rendered":"Wolves&#8217; Karl-Anthony Towns to have surgery on torn meniscus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves&#8217; Karl-Anthony Towns to have surgery on torn meniscus\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPN<span class=\"timestamp \">March 8, 2024, 03:49<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns will undergo surgery to repair a torn left meniscus, and sources told ESPN on Thursday night that he should be back by the start of the conference playoffs West.<\/p>\n<p>Towns will be re-evaluated in four weeks, but the procedure should give him the opportunity to return early in the playoffs, sources said.  The Timberwolves (44-19) are fighting for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, maintaining a half-game lead over the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The cities will undergo the operation at the beginning of next <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/week\/\"   title=\"week\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Towns spoke with team doctors and specialists about what to do once an MRI discovered the tear in recent days, and vowed to proceed immediately because it gives him a chance to rehabilitate and return to the team for what becomes the best regular season.  in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Towns, who appeared in his fourth All-Star Game in 2024, is one of five players in the NBA averaging 20 points, 50% shooting and 40% 3-point shooting, according to ESPN Stats &#038; Information research .  The Timberwolves have an offensive efficiency rating of 116.5 with Towns on the floor \u2014 and 106.1 without him, according to Stats &#038; Information.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves have a deep front line and Naz Reid will see his playing time increase in Towns&#39; absence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolves&#8217; Karl-Anthony Towns to have surgery on torn meniscus\u060c Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNMarch 8, 2024, 03:49 Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns will undergo surgery to repair a torn left meniscus, and sources told ESPN on Thursday night that he should be back by the start of the conference playoffs West. Towns will be re-evaluated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11687,4507,2060,2698,11688,5007],"class_list":["post-29847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-karlanthony","tag-meniscus","tag-surgery","tag-torn","tag-towns","tag-wolves"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29849,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29847\/revisions\/29849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}