Long before he was an NBA superstar, Karl-Anthony Towns was the pride of high school basketball in New Jersey, winning a state championship en route to being one of the top prospects in his class. Now, his father is primed to pick up where Towns left on in high school.
According to Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic, Karl Towns Sr. has been hired as the new head basketball coach at Saint Joseph High School in Metuchen – the very same high school where Karl-Anthony dominated in the early 2010s.
Towns Sr. previously coached at Piscataway Technical High School and was a college basketball player in his own right for Monmouth University. He would even let his son practice with the high school boys when Karl-Anthony was still in middle school.
“Cool story in New Jersey. Karl Towns Sr. has been hired as the new head basketball coach at Saint Joseph HS in Metuchen, the same school where his son, Karl-Anthony Towns, starred before he went on to Kentucky and NBA stardom,” Vorkunov wrote on X.
Karl-Anthony Towns went from New Jersey to the University of Kentucky, where he dominated as a freshman en route to going No. 1 overall in the 2015 NBA Draft to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Since then, Towns has become a five-time All-Star, Rookie of the Year and a Three-Point Contest champion.
Maybe the next Karl-Anthony Towns will come from Saint Joseph too.