- What's up guys, it's Karl-Anthony Towns,
and I'm going undercover on the internet.
[upbeat music] This is actually me.
First up, Quora.
Could a starting five of Ben Simmons,
Giannis Antetokounmpo, may be one of the only people
who knows how to say it correctly,
LeBron James, Karl-Anthony Towns,
they forgot a dash in my name, how disrespectful,
Kristaps Porzingis take down the Warriors?
Well, yeah. [laughs]
What the hell?
Damn power team right there. [laughs]
Why does Karl-Anthony Towns play center instead
of power forward?
'Cause I want to.
Submit.
Next up, Wikipedia.
It's actually me.
He studied kinesiology in his one year at Kentucky
and hopes to become a doctor after his basketball career.
That is true, I wanted to be in kinesiology.
My mother, being in the medical field, gave me a lot of love
for the medical field, and I love sports,
and I think kinesiology was great for me to
be in the medical field but stay in sports and
to be able to know how to move better,
not only for my clients but for myself,
helps life around for everybody.
Towns graduated with a high school GPA of 3.96
on a 4.5 scale, I did.
I was always really good in school.
I mean, it's not that hard, I love when I hear people say,
you know, they're struggling in school.
I'm like, well, you couldn't just do the homework?
Like, it's the simplest thing.
If you do the homework, you're already on a great route.
I was just a kid who just understood what
my responsibilities were.
I took AP classes, so obviously that's why I have
a 4.5 scale to work with and, you know,
I just dominated in the classroom as well
on the basketball court.
Next up, Reddit.
Devin Booker, Karl Anthony-Towns, D'Angelo Russell,
my brothers, super team, where could it happen?
Preferably for me, it would be in Timberwolves so,
it would be in Minnesota, hopefully, one day.
I'm gonna speak it into existence.
I don't know if it'll happen but I want it to.
Next, as a freshman in high school,
Karl-Anthony Towns interviewed Kevin Durant.
So, lookin' at that picture, KAT was as tall as KD
when he was a freshman in high school.
I was 6'10" and a half as a freshman,
coming in to St. Joe's Metuchen, dominated New Jersey
for three years.
Forget all that, I'm lookin' at my haircut,
what happened, now I got dreads and beard and,
man, my swag's through the roof.
I was low key, I was lookin' kinda crusty real quick
for a second, you know,
went through my ugly duckling stage already.
Karl-Anthony Towns on what it would take for him
not to play.
I would have to not be able to walk.
It would be a lot, I would not be able to walk on both legs.
If I could walk on one, oh, damn sure I'm playing.
He hasn't missed a game since middle school, is this true?
Of course it's true. [scoffs]
I haven't missed a game for anything.
There was one game in middle school,
I can even tell you the game,
I was supposed to be playing at Edison Job Corps
in New Jersey, and I went to the game, I had the flu,
and I had bad flu.
I didn't have the regular flu, no,
I had the extra strength flu.
I showed up, I looked like crap.
So, I'm waiting for our game to start,
there was a game in front of us.
I fell asleep in the stands.
I remember waking up,
it was the third quarter of my game. [laughs]
I rushed out, bad flu and all, and my dad just stopped me,
he's like, "Listen Karl, I'm not gonna let you play,
"it's not that serious, like, you're sick,
"just take it easy on yourself."
So, other than my father not letting me play,
I haven't missed a game since until this year,
I got in a car accident and got hit by a truck.
I was ready to play, team was like, no.
In a purely hypothetical situation,
which player would be a better fit
for the Golden State Warriors,
Rudy Gobert or Karl-Anthony Towns?
It would be me.
Not a knock on him, just I feel like they're just
one of the best three point shooting teams to ever
be assembled and to put me on that team
with my ability to shoot, I think that,
it's gonna be pretty hard to guard everybody.
Next up is Facebook.
Man, who uses Facebook anymore?
It's like the MySpace of nowadays.
Who throws the best lobs on the T Wolves team?
[laughs] Damn sure ain't Andrew Wiggins. [laughs]
He ain't throwin' no lobs, his lob game is stupid,
it's just bad.
I'd probably Jeff Teague.
I mean, he is our point guard, so...
Up next is YouTube, one of my favorite places.
You may not believe it, but it's actually me.
What's your favorite anime personage, is that right?
- [Off Camera Man] Personage.
- Personage, wow, this man really did well on the SAT.
I'm always a Dragon Ball Z fan, first and foremost.
I'll definitely say Goku, I mean,
everyone wants to be like Goku.
Kat, who was your favorite player growing up,
or actually he said frowning up.
Growing up my favorite player, K.D.
Also, I mean, the biggest inspiration to my game,
I wear the number 32 because one, my father wore it
and any son wants to be like his dad,
especially who my father was and how widely
accepted and recognized he was in my neighborhood and
also the second part for the number 32 is I wanted to play
like Magic Johnson so bad.
Prime Time, making his teammates better,
could score, could do it all.
So yeah, growing up my favorite player was obviously K.D.,
big respect to him, but biggest inspirations
were my father and Magic Johnson,
that's why I wear the number 32.
Next up, Instagram, dangerous site.
Kat to Shanghai Sharks confirmed.
I may be wrong, but...
Doesn't Stephon Marbury coach them, or that Beijing?
Quick, Google check.
Does the Timberwolves legend associate himself
with that team?
- [Off Camera Man] I'm not seeing it on there.
- Nope, welp, no. [laughs]
No, I will not be playing then.
What would you do if Kobe Bryant challenged you
to win the MVP this year?
I mean, I don't need him to challenge me,
I go out there and try to win and play
at a MVP level every single night, so.
Obviously the GOAT, like, Kobe telling you
something like that, obviously, is, you know,
motivation, determination, but MVP, whatever,
that's cool, but I'm trying to win games.
[laughs] I like this question.
Are you growing dreads?
You would look awesome with them.
I am, I mean, kind of.
Just trying something new, I've always wanted to do this.
I talked to Derrick Rose all last season about doing it,
kinda was telling me nah, let's just wait 'til the summer,
really give it a try.
Soon as summer came around and vacation started,
be poppin' up in my mind, oh you best believe
that dreads were in my mind so,
I got the dreads and I've been really enjoying them a lot.
I'm thinking about taking them into the next season,
so dreads, braids, we'll see.
Next up is Twitter, tweet tweet.
How did Karl-Anthony Towns end up
in a Katy Perry music video?
It's very simple, I just got a call from Katy Perry
and her people saying,
"Hey, are you around to be in a music video?"
I said, "Yeah, I'm not doing anything tonight."
If you want me to go in depth and tell you something
crazy like, oh yeah, I was here at Kiff's Treats
and saw Katy Perry and said,
"Hey, I want to be in a music video."
Nope, that didn't happen.
[bird tweeting]
Can we expect a feature on the Stizz album?
Man, shout out to Cousin Stizz, Beantown's finest.
I don't know if the people are ready for all those thrills.
That's a lot of thrills to give out.
Karl-Anthony Towns has a YouTube channel
and I didn't know until now?
Me and Chucky did YouTube because I wanted to be able to
express a little more of myself to the fans,
make myself more open through these videos and vlogs
and skits and whatever the case it is.
It's been awesome just to be able to really
be creative in a space that I've always wanted to
really do stuff in and make content for.
We got a lot of things in the pipeline so
subscribe to the YouTube channel, hit that bell,
make you sure you do it because if you don't,
you may be just late.
[bird tweeting]
How does anyone stop Karl-Anthony Towns?
[Beep] I'm trying to find out myself
to give some people answers, but...
Boom.
[bird tweeting]
KAT, where or who did you learn about energy
and frequencies from?
I think life teaches you a lot, and I feel that
being around my sister, my family, my closest friends,
I just always felt that energy and frequencies tell
more than anything.
You know, through life I felt that.
I've learned, you know, how to read people's energies
and their frequencies and through just life experiences
and learning different things and being
in different situations and
people always could lie to you, you know,
but the energy never lies.
You can't duplicate, you can't replicate,
you can't tell false energy to anybody.
[bird tweeting]
How the hell does Karl-Anthony Towns shoot 43%
from three point range?
That's impressive.
You know, I think one of the biggest things I had to
get used to was just learning, you know,
the depth perception of seeing the three point line
and shooting it that far.
Obviously, after my first year really getting
my feet wet in the NBA, really understanding what
I could and could not do, I just expanded my game
and found out little ways I could help the team better
from an offensive standpoint and
from the skillset standpoint and the three was one of those.
[bird tweeting]
[laughs] All right, so back in the day
I did a KitKat commercial,
and how many KitKat bars did you eat while filming?
I ate...
Think I ate, I ate one.
I think I ate one or two, it was one or two but,
man, it was good.
[bird tweeting]
Karl-Anthony Towns out here doing hella commercials.
I guess...
brands and people love the kid.
I think it's more about my character more than just
my skill, you know, I just represent myself
in the best way possible, and I think that people
really respect that.
[bird tweeting]
Does music have any influence in your game
or your life?
Do you play like, musical instruments?
I saw your reaction to Luke Bryan, so what is
your favorite type of music to warm up to, party to?
I mean, music is a big influence in my life,
something that really propels me in workouts
and in life and really giving me the opportunity to
really feel motivated.
Do you play any musical instruments?
I used to play the flute, guitar, and piano.
My favorite type of music to listen to is always gonna be
hip hop, R&B, alternate, traditional folk,
shout out to Passenger, you know, really love their music.
Party to, I mean, a party is whatever it is.
I mean, there's a video of me singing
with Travis Scott "We Are Young" in the club so,
it was a lot of fun.
[bird tweeting]
What advice would you give to young Hispanics that are
trying to make it to the NBA?
Listen...
Especially for the Dominicanos out there
and the Hispanics, you know, don't ever let
your surroundings at the moment be what you feel
your limits are.
You can make it out from anywhere,
and we're in the best age for Hispanics, you know.
We got a lot of people putting it on for our culture
and secondly, we're in a digital age, you know.
Talent will be found anywhere in the world,
and for you to be in this age is a huge blessing
and I think that you just need to take over, you know,
gotta do what you need to do.
Take care of your grades, first of all,
because if you don't take care of that,
nothing's gonna get done, and secondly,
you know, put the work in.
You know, if you want anything in life,
you gotta put the work in.
No one's gonna give you a chance to be in the NBA,
hell, be in college.
So, you gotta go out there and you gotta put the work in,
you gotta do the little things.
[bird tweeting]
That's it for me.
I don't got no more questions, so shout out
to GQ Sports and I'm signing off.