{"id":565598,"date":"2026-01-28T05:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565598\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:19:17","slug":"knicks-karl-anthony-unbothered-by-decline-in-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565598\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks’ Karl-Anthony unbothered by decline in minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

All-Star Knicks<\/a> big man Karl-Anthony Towns said he\u2019s unbothered by Mike Brown\u2019s decision to reduce his minutes in a third consecutive game \u2014 all victories.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe saw what he saw. We got a win. That\u2019s the most important thing,\u201d Towns said after logging 27 minutes \u2014 the fewest of all five starters \u2014 in New York\u2019s 103-87 victory over the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Tuesday. Asked if he was upset or frustrated over the minutes distribution, Towns repeated his sentiment. \u201cWe got the win. That\u2019s the most important thing. That\u2019s all I care about. That\u2019s all this team cares about \u2014 is the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Towns, who is in a down year, logged 27 minutes on Tuesday but watched the final 6:51 of the fourth quarter from the bench for the second game in a row. The Knicks were up by four when Towns went to the bench and went on to build a lead that ballooned to 18 before puling away to win by 16 points.<\/p>\n

Brown closed the game with Jalen Brunson, Miles McBride, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby and Mitchell Robinson with Towns and Josh Hart on the bench.<\/p>\n

Tuesday marked the seventh game this season with a grand total of 23 minutes shared on the floor for that five-man unit. It is outscoring opponents by 26.4 points per 100 possessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know at the end of the game, we had a group out on the floor that\u2019s playing well, and it\u2019s a tight ball game so I just rode that group to the end of the game, which I\u2019ve done before,\u201d said Brown. \u201cWe had Deuce out there, who\u2019s not a starter, and Mitch out there, who\u2019s not a starter. So again, we need to get the win, and the biggest thing was Mikal was at 37 [minutes], but other than Mikal, everybody was at decent minutes especially knowing we\u2019ve got a game tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Towns remained outwardly unbothered by the new rotations \u2014 and while Brown highlighted Wednesday\u2019s second leg of a back-to-back against the Toronto Raptors as a reason to preserve his star big man\u2019s legs \u2014 Tuesday marked the third game in a row Towns has seen a significant decline in his minutes, particularly late in game, though much of the decline can be attributed to foul trouble.<\/p>\n

Towns finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds in 27 minutes against the Kings. He played a total of 36 minutes combined in New York\u2019s two previous wins against the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Star Knicks big man Karl-Anthony Towns said he\u2019s unbothered by Mike Brown\u2019s decision to reduce his minutes in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,563,304,3357,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-565598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-mike-brown","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115971041867091530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}