Karl-Anthony Towns' Twitter doesn't sit well with many Minnesota fans

A postgame tweet from the Timberwolves star center didn't play well with a lot of Vikings fans after Sunday's NFC Championship game.

January 22, 2018 at 2:32PM
Guard Jimmy Butler, left, and center Karl-Anthony Towns of the Wolves both have played well enough to be picked for the NBA All-Star Game, especially with the team's 29 wins.
Guard Jimmy Butler, left, and center Karl-Anthony Towns of the Wolves both have played well enough to be picked for the NBA All-Star Game, especially with the team’s 29 wins. (Brian Stensaas — Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Karl-Anthony Towns is from New Jersey. He roots for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Sunday night he tried to be magnamimous.

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It didn't sit well with some Vikings' fans, who apparently thought it was wrong the Timberwolves star to root for a team from near where he grew up.

We've Embiided .... er embedded ... some of the reaction tweets here:

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A few people understood where KAT's head was at.

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And some people will be willing to forgive and forget, with a condition:

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We're going to assume that Towns won't say, down the road, that he's leaving town because of the way Minnesota fans reacted after the Eagles beat the Vikings for the NFC title back in 2018.

We're right, right?

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Howard Sinker

Digital Sports Editor

Howard Sinker is digital sports editor at startribune.com and curates the website's Sports Upload blog. He is also a senior instructor in Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul.

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