Karl-Anthony Towns

7'0"248 lb

Born 1995-11-15 (Age: 20)Pre-NBA: Kentucky

2015Rd 1Pk 1MIN

Per game average

Season	PPG	APG	RPG	TS%
2026-27	-	-	-	-
2025-26	20.1	3.0	11.9	61.9%
2024-25	24.4	3.1	12.8	63.0%
2023-24	21.8	3.0	8.3	62.5%
2022-23	20.8	4.8	8.1	61.8%

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2026-27 · NYK

Drafted by the Timberwolves with the 1st pick in 2015. How they got him

2015-16 percentile ranking

15-1625-26

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Season stats

Career trend + season grid. Click a season to open that year’s game log.

Season	Tm	G	PTS	AST	TRB	MP	ORB	DRB	TOV	PF
2025-26	NYK	75	20.1	3.0	11.9	31.0	3.1	8.7	2.5	3.4
2024-25	NYK	72	24.4	3.1	12.8	35.0	2.9	9.8	2.7	3.5
2023-24	MIN	62	21.8	3.0	8.3	32.7	1.5	6.8	2.9	3.3
2022-23	MIN	29	20.8	4.8	8.1	33.0	1.7	6.5	3.0	3.8
2021-22	MIN	74	24.6	3.6	9.8	33.5	2.6	7.2	3.1	3.6
2020-21	MIN	50	24.8	4.5	10.6	33.8	2.7	7.9	3.2	3.7
2019-20	MIN	35	26.5	4.4	10.8	33.9	2.7	8.1	3.1	3.3
2018-19	MIN	77	24.4	3.4	12.4	33.1	3.4	9.0	3.1	3.8
2017-18	MIN	82	21.3	2.4	12.3	35.6	2.9	9.4	1.9	3.5
2016-17	MIN	82	25.1	2.7	12.3	37.0	3.6	8.7	2.6	2.9
2015-16	MIN	82	18.3	2.0	10.5	32.0	2.8	7.7	2.2	3.0

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Contract

$118.1M over 2 seasons through 2027-28 · $57.1M guaranteed

NYK payroll

Projected surplus

-$64.3M

80% range -$115.5M to +$1.9M

Estimated worth

$55.1M

Against $118.1M in salary

Among contracts

7th percentile

By total surplus, of 406 we can estimate

Paid more than he's projected to be worth in every season. The loss grows over the deal.

Surplus

2026-27Paid $57.1M, worth about $28.9M (likely $1.3M to $60.3M)

Salary
Estimated worth
Likely range (80%)
Gain or loss

Season	Salary	Est. worth	80% range	Surplus	Notes
2026-27	$57.1M	$28.9M	$1.3M–$60.3M	-$28.2M	—
2027-28Player option	$61.0M	$26.2M	$1.4M–$59.7M	-$36.1M	Player option

Worth is projected from DRBL wins over 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 (27,681 possessions). Surplus is worth minus salary, after options.

Traded from MIN to NYK October 2, 2024. 2027-28 is a player option. Signed 4-yr/$224M contract July 7, 2022.

How this works

Worth is what his projected DRBL wins would cost on the open market. We count wins above a minimum-salary player in the same minutes and price them at what teams paid per DRBL win from 2020-21 to 2025-26: 9.8% of the cap, about $16.2M in 2026-27.

Projections weight his last 3 seasons 3, 2 and 1, newest first, and pull toward what players at his salary usually produce, then adjust for age. Playing time comes from recent minutes, age and salary, since teams play the players they pay. A season lost to injury still pulls the playing time down.

Surplus is worth minus salary. A team can always bench a player, so worth never drops below the minimum salary. A player option leaves the team only the downside, because he walks when he could earn more. A team option or a non-guaranteed year leaves only the upside.

To test it, we refit the model three times, each with only the seasons through 2022-23, 2023-24 or 2024-25, valued what players were actually paid afterward, and compared with what they did. The typical miss the next season was 0.91 wins, against 1.09 for assuming a player repeats his last season. Three seasons out it was 1.18 wins, against 1.54. 12% of players beat the top of the range. Fewer than 2% fell below the bottom, since worth can't drop under the minimum salary.

Cap figures after 2026-27 assume 5.8% growth a year, the recent average. The percentile compares total surplus across the 406 current contracts we can estimate.

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Season	Age	Tm	Pos	G	GS	Impact												Profile								Shooting														Defense								Hustle						Advanced
Season	Age	Tm	Pos	G	GS	DARKO	DARKO-O	DARKO-D	RAPTOR	O-RAPTOR	D-RAPTOR	WAR	WAR1	VORP	DRBL/100	DRBL-O	DRBL-D	MP	PTS	TRB	ORB	DRB	AST	TOV	PF	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	FT	FTA	FT%	eFG%	TS%	STL	BLK	STL%	BLK%	DRB%	DRtg	DBPM	DWS	Defl	Contest	ScrAst	Chrg	Loose	BoxOut	3PAr	FTr	USG%	TOV%	AST%	ORB%	TRB%	AST/TO	ORtg	NET	PER	OWS	WS	WS/48	OBPM	BPM
2025-26	30	NYK	C	75	75	2.94	2.25	0.69	-	-	-	-	0.9	3.1	0.3	1.4	-0.7	31.0	20.1	11.9	3.1	8.7	3.0	2.5	3.4	6.9	13.8	50.1%	1.5	4.1	36.8%	5.4	9.7	55.7%	4.8	5.5	85.8%	55.6%	61.9%	0.9	0.5	1.4%	1.8%	31.7%	110.0	0.6	4.0	2.0	6.0	1.8	0.0	0.6	2.3	29.7%	0.403	25.9%	13.3%	14.7%	11.2%	21.4%	1.20	123.0	13.0	22.0	5.5	9.5	0.197	2.7	3.3
2024-25	29	NYK	C	72	72	1.96	1.23	0.73	-	-	-	-	2.2	3.5	0.7	2.5	-0.9	35.0	24.4	12.8	2.9	9.8	3.1	2.7	3.5	8.9	16.9	52.6%	2.0	4.7	42.0%	6.9	12.2	56.7%	4.7	5.7	82.9%	58.4%	63.0%	1.0	0.7	1.4%	1.9%	32.0%	110.0	0.1	3.8	2.1	7.3	2.5	-	0.6	2.8	27.8%	0.337	27.4%	12.1%	13.8%	9.8%	21.0%	1.15	122.0	12.0	23.4	6.3	10.1	0.193	3.5	3.6
2023-24	28	MIN	PF	62	62	3.00	1.61	1.38	-	-	-	-	1.3	2.3	0.5	1.6	-0.5	32.7	21.8	8.3	1.5	6.8	3.0	2.9	3.3	7.7	15.3	50.4%	2.2	5.3	41.6%	5.5	10.0	55.0%	4.1	4.7	87.3%	57.5%	62.5%	0.7	0.7	1.0%	1.8%	22.6%	109.0	0.9	3.6	1.3	7.4	1.0	0.0	0.8	1.3	34.4%	0.307	27.4%	14.1%	15.1%	5.5%	14.4%	1.03	115.0	6.0	18.8	2.6	6.3	0.148	1.6	2.5
2022-23	27	MIN	PF	29	29	4.31	3.69	0.62	-	-	-	-	0.2	1.2	0.1	0.5	-0.2	33.0	20.8	8.1	1.7	6.5	4.8	3.0	3.8	7.3	14.8	49.5%	2.1	5.7	36.6%	5.2	9.1	57.6%	4.1	4.7	87.4%	56.5%	61.8%	0.7	0.6	1.0%	1.5%	21.6%	114.0	0.9	1.1	1.2	7.9	1.7	0.0	0.7	1.2	38.3%	0.315	25.6%	15.0%	22.0%	5.7%	13.8%	1.60	117.0	3.0	18.8	1.5	2.7	0.133	2.1	3.0
2021-22	26	MIN	C	74	74	3.22	3.10	0.12	2.12	3.31	-1.18	6.81	3.3	4.4	1.0	2.8	-0.6	33.5	24.6	9.8	2.6	7.2	3.6	3.1	3.6	8.7	16.4	52.9%	2.0	4.9	41.0%	6.7	11.5	58.0%	5.2	6.3	82.2%	59.1%	64.0%	1.0	1.1	1.4%	3.2%	23.6%	110.0	0.5	3.2	1.8	9.3	3.2	-	0.8	2.3	30.1%	0.385	27.8%	13.7%	18.0%	8.2%	15.7%	1.16	121.0	11.0	24.1	7.1	10.3	0.199	4.5	5.0
2020-21	25	MIN	C	50	50	3.37	3.96	-0.58	3.36	3.56	-0.20	5.32	1.2	2.8	0.5	2.2	-1.0	33.8	24.8	10.6	2.7	7.9	4.5	3.2	3.7	8.5	17.5	48.6%	2.4	6.3	38.7%	6.1	11.2	54.1%	5.3	6.2	85.9%	55.5%	61.2%	0.8	1.1	1.1%	2.9%	26.4%	113.0	0.2	1.6	-	-	-	-	-	-	36.0%	0.355	29.1%	13.7%	22.6%	8.2%	17.0%	1.41	117.0	4.0	23.1	3.8	5.4	0.153	4.3	4.5
2019-20	24	MIN	C	35	35	3.29	3.40	-0.11	6.66	5.77	0.90	5.78	-	2.9	-	-	-	33.9	26.5	10.8	2.7	8.1	4.4	3.1	3.3	9.0	17.8	50.8%	3.3	7.9	41.2%	5.7	9.9	58.6%	5.1	6.5	79.6%	60.0%	64.2%	0.9	1.2	1.3%	2.9%	26.1%	110.0	0.8	1.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	44.5%	0.363	28.8%	13.2%	22.8%	8.1%	16.8%	1.42	121.0	11.0	26.5	3.7	5.1	0.204	7.0	7.8
2018-19	23	MIN	C	77	77	2.60	2.34	0.26	3.49	3.45	0.04	8.14	-	5.1	-	-	-	33.1	24.4	12.4	3.4	9.0	3.4	3.1	3.8	8.8	17.1	51.8%	1.8	4.6	40.0%	7.0	12.5	56.2%	4.9	5.8	83.6%	57.2%	62.2%	0.9	1.6	1.3%	4.2%	29.3%	108.0	0.6	3.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	27.0%	0.342	28.9%	13.7%	17.2%	10.9%	20.0%	1.10	118.0	10.0	26.3	7.2	10.4	0.197	5.4	6.0
2017-18	22	MIN	C	82	82	1.68	2.68	-1.00	3.84	4.07	-0.23	10.29	-	5.2	-	-	-	35.6	21.3	12.3	2.9	9.4	2.4	1.9	3.5	7.8	14.3	54.5%	1.5	3.5	42.1%	6.3	10.8	58.5%	4.2	4.9	85.8%	59.6%	64.6%	0.8	1.4	1.1%	3.5%	30.9%	107.0	0.2	3.4	-	-	-	-	-	-	24.3%	0.343	22.9%	10.5%	10.8%	9.3%	20.0%	1.26	127.0	20.0	24.9	10.6	14.0	0.230	4.9	5.1
2016-17	21	MIN	C	82	82	1.58	1.51	0.07	1.75	3.84	-2.09	6.96	-	5.2	-	-	-	37.0	25.1	12.3	3.6	8.7	2.7	2.6	2.9	9.8	18.0	54.2%	1.2	3.4	36.7%	8.6	14.6	58.2%	4.3	5.2	83.2%	57.6%	61.8%	0.7	1.3	0.9%	2.9%	27.8%	110.0	-0.7	2.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	18.6%	0.289	27.5%	11.3%	13.2%	11.2%	19.4%	1.04	121.0	11.0	25.9	9.9	12.7	0.201	5.5	4.7
2015-16	20	MIN	C	82	82	-0.34	0.00	-0.34	1.37	1.16	0.21	5.56	-	2.7	-	-	-	32.0	18.3	10.5	2.8	7.7	2.0	2.2	3.0	7.6	14.1	54.2%	0.4	1.1	34.1%	7.2	13.0	55.9%	2.7	3.4	81.1%	55.5%	59.0%	0.7	1.7	1.1%	4.3%	27.5%	106.0	-0.4	2.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	7.6%	0.239	24.9%	12.6%	11.3%	10.3%	19.0%	0.91	112.0	6.0	22.5	5.5	8.3	0.151	2.5	2.2

Karl-Anthony Towns

2015-16 percentile ranking