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KAT: 'Emotional' having dad at game without mom

Minnesota's Karl-Anthony Towns said it meant "everything" to have his father in attendance for Monday's game at Barclays Center, the first game Karl Towns Sr. had attended since his wife, Jackie Cruz-Towns, died from complications of COVID-19 last April.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/3116...owns-death