New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns is actually skipping the game this time. Towns declined to engage in Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green's verbal

New York looks to the All-Star center for leadership while he grieves the death of a close family friend, writes Mark Medina.

Karl-Anthony Towns is learning from one of the best — Patrick Ewing. “How dope is that s—? It’s dope as hell,” Towns said. “The blessing and the fact that I can say that I was on a bus with Patrick Ewing and going to games and we talk a bunch and to be around a legend like that.