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- Updated: May 16, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns is the unanimous winner of the Kia NBA Rookie of the Year award.
The league made the announcement Monday, giving the Wolves back-to-back honorees after forward Andrew Wiggins won the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy last season. The 7-foot Towns received all 130 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters in the United States and Canada, joining Damian Lillard (2013), Blake Griffin (2011), David Robinson (1990) and Ralph Sampson (1984) as recent unanimous winners.
New York’s Kristaps Porzingis finished second, and Denver’s Nikola Jokic was third.
The first pick out of Kentucky in the 2015 draft, Towns ranked eighth in the NBA in rebounds and field-goal percentage and produced the best debut for a big man since Tim Duncan in 1998. The 20-year-old Towns averaged 18.1 points, 10.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks, helping the Timberwolves win 13 more games than the season before.
The Wolves became the first team with back-to-back winners …
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