Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the University of Kentucky. Forward who was named NBA Rookie of the Year in 2016 after being selected first overall in the 2015 NBA Draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He played one season of college basketball at the University of Kentucky, helping the team win 38 straight games before losing to Wisconsin in the Final Four. He attended Lake Nelson Seventh-Day Adventist School in his hometown of Piscataway, New Jersey. He played for the Dominican Republic national team as a sixteen-year-old.