The content of Karl-Anthony Towns’ farewell message for the year 2020 reflects the bitterness of those 12 months for the planet and especially for him.
The Minnesota Timberwolves center, in NBA basketball, wrote:
“From my family to you 2020,
Fuck you
-KAT ”
So wrote the giant Timberwolves publishes Yahoo Sports.
The publication placed it on Twitter shortly after the beginning of the new year and that by around 4:00 pm this Friday had more than a thousand comments, 24,400 retweets and approximately 242,800 likes.
From my family to you 2020,
Fuck You.
-KAT
— Karl-Anthony Towns (@KarlTowns)
January 1, 2021
Towns, 25, experienced a devastating calendar year. His mother, Jacqueline Towns, died of COVID-19 on April 13. After the sports world took a hiatus, Towns made a passionate plea on Instagram to take the virus seriously when her mother, who has worked as a nurse, was admitted to a hospital. medically induced coma.
He then dedicated the game ball to him after a double-double in the Timberwolves’ season opener on Dec. 23 and spoke freely afterward of how her death had impacted him.
“You know what? I don’t even acknowledge most of my other games and years that I’ve played and how I felt those days,” Towns told reporters, according to The Athletic. “If I can be honest with you for a second, I mean, I don’t really remember or care. I only understand what happened as of April 13,” the date his mother, a Dominican native of Santiago de los Caballeros, died. .
“Because you can see me smile and stuff, but Karl died on April 13. He will never come back, I don’t remember that man. You’re talking to the physical me, but my soul has been killed a long time ago.
He later lost six other family members to COVID-19, including his uncle, who died late last month.
Physically, the situation worsened as days before New Year’s Eve, the Timberwolves announced that Towns would be out of the team indefinitely with a dislocated left wrist. It was the same one that broke last season.
The sixth-year veteran is trying not to get too discouraged heading into the new year.
“I’m going to be positive,” Towns said, via the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “It’s okay to hurt my wrist in 2020.”
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