The Knicks kept rolling Tuesday night, and Karl-Anthony Towns kept stuffing the stat sheet.
New York blasted Milwaukee 117-85 at Madison Square Garden for its fourth straight victory, moving to 6-4 while the Bucks sank to 1-10 with their seventh loss in a row. The game turned in the second quarter, when the Knicks ripped off a 32-12 edge and never let Milwaukee back in.
Jalen Brunson led the way with 23 points and four rebounds, but the depth was just as striking. Seven Knicks finished with at least eight points, and Towns was right in the middle of it again with 21 points, 16 rebounds, three assists and two steals.
Afterward, Mike Brown zeroed in on what Towns brought on the boards. “He's just got a nose or a knack for the ball. You know he doesn't jump real high, but he's long, and he understands angles,” Brown said in the video posted by SNY.
Brown added, “KAT's in that category when it comes to rebounding. We emphasize it quite a bit, and we tell guys, ‘You gotta put bodies on bodies.' So if our small is on other people around him or putting bodies on bodies, it's a one-on-one contest for KAT, and he's gonna win most times.”
"He's just got a nose or a knack for the ball"
— SNY Knicks (@sny_knicks) November 11, 2026
Mike Brown talks about Karl-Anthony Towns' rebounding as he starts the season with a double-double in each of his first 10 games: pic.twitter.com/VVSPB67vWl
Towns, 30, now ranks second in the league with 13.8 rebounds per game, behind only Domantas Sabonis of the Sacramento Kings, who is averaging 14.6. If he keeps rebounding at this pace, he could end up with a new career-high.
The six-time All-Star is also in the middle of a contract standoff with the Knicks, and his play is making a loud case that he is worth more than the $200 million the front office offered him in the offseason.
New York’s next test comes Wednesday against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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