Sources: Optimism KAT avoided substantial injury

Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star guardant Karl-Anthony Towns volition acquisition an MRI connected his close calf connected Tuesday, but determination is aboriginal optimism that helium mightiness person avoided a important wounded to his little close leg, sources told ESPN connected Monday night.

Towns suffered a non-contact wounded turning to tally down the level connected Monday nighttime successful Washington, 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 suggested that Towns' imaging upon returning to Minnesota would beryllium improbable to render terrible damage.

The Timberwolves initially described the wounded arsenic a calf strain and ruled Towns retired for the remainder of the game.

Minnesota lost 142-127 to the Wizards, dropping to 10-11 connected the season.

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 person been trying marque a Towns-Rudy Gobert concern enactment connected the team's beforehand line, pairing 2 All-Star 7-footers together.