{"id":71705,"date":"2016-02-15T21:41:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=71705"},"modified":"2016-02-15T21:41:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:41:22","slug":"karl-anthony-towns-wins-2016-nba-skills-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/02\/15\/karl-anthony-towns-wins-2016-nba-skills-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns wins 2016 NBA Skills Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns won the 2016 NBA Skills Challenge yesterday, Sunday, 14 February 2016 in Toronto, Canada. <\/p>\n<p> Born in the USA to a Dominican mother and US father, Towns has played on the Dominican national team in the past. He was the 2015 No. 1 overall pick. <\/p>\n<p> CBS Sports reports that Isaiah Thomas of the Boston Celtics and Towns were neck and neck for most of the Finals but the Timberwolves rookie was able to make a three before the Celtics All-Star. As soon as Towns made his shot, in a show of solidarity the other big men in the event rushed him in celebration. They then posed with Towns while he accepted the Skills Challenge trophy.<\/p>\n<p> His former university team, Kentucky highlighted Towns&#8217; ability to handle the ball, shoot the three and make the extra pass, calling him the epitome of the big man. <\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karl-Anthony Towns Wins Taco Bell Skills Challenge\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gQN40QMnrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/sports\/college\/kentucky-sports\/ex-cats\/article60291661.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns won the 2016 NBA Skills Challenge yesterday, Sunday, 14 February 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Born in the USA to a Dominican mother and US father, Towns has played on the Dominican national team in the past. He was the 2015 No. 1 overall pick. CBS Sports reports that Isaiah Thomas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/02\/15\/karl-anthony-towns-wins-2016-nba-skills-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}