Sources: Calf strain to sideline KAT for 4-6 weeks

Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star guardant Karl-Anthony Towns is expected to miss 4 to six weeks with a close calf strain, sources told ESPN.

After archetypal fears of a important wounded erstwhile helium near Monday night's 142-127 nonaccomplishment to Washington successful the 3rd quarter, Towns underwent imaging connected Tuesday successful Minneapolis. The anticipation exists for a afloat betterment and instrumentality sometime successful January, sources said.

Towns suffered a noncontact wounded turning to tally down the floor, reaching backmost to drawback astatine his calf and leaving uncertainty astir whether helium had suffered an Achilles injury.

Towns needed assistance to permission the tribunal for the locker room, but an archetypal introspection connected Monday nighttime suggested that Towns had avoided an Achilles tear.

Towns, 27, has averaged 21.4 points, 8.5 rebounds and 5.2 assists successful 20 games for the Timberwolves. In 8 NBA seasons, he's averaged 23.1 points and 11.2 rebounds. The Timberwolves (10-11) person been trying marque a Towns-Rudy Gobert concern enactment connected the team's beforehand line, pairing 2 All-Star 7-footers together.