{"id":100702,"date":"2016-05-16T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100702"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T20:01:56","slug":"wolves-karl-anthony-towns-nba-rookie-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=100702","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Karl-Anthony Towns, NBA Rookie-Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/KarlTowns1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-100754\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/KarlTowns1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"KarlTowns1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/KarlTowns1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/KarlTowns1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/KarlTowns1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/KarlTowns1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the unanimous winner of the NBA Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>The league made the announcement Monday, giving the Wolves back-to-back honorees after forward Andrew Wiggins took the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-foot Towns received all 130 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters in the United States and Canada, joining Damian Lillard (2013), Blake Griffin (2011), David Robinson (1990) and Ralph Sampson (1984) as recent unanimous winners.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s Kristaps Porzingis finished second, and Denver&#8217;s Nikola Jokic was third.<\/p>\n<p>The first pick in the 2015 draft, Towns ranked eighth in the NBA in rebounds and field-goal percentage and was one of only six players in the league to start all 82 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the unanimous winner of the NBA Rookie of the Year award. The league made the announcement Monday, giving the Wolves back-to-back honorees after forward Andrew Wiggins took the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy last season. The 7-foot Towns received all 130 first-place votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100756,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100702\/revisions\/100756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}