Karl-Anthony Towns played 11 seasons (2016–2026) for MIN and NY. Career regular-season line: 16,345 points, 8,009 rebounds and 2,253 assists. Late Developer career, peaking in 2022. Led the league in a statistical category 1 time.
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Rate Karl-Anthony Towns — All-Time
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
11 seasons · peak 13.4 in 2022
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
58.6 career wins over 11 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 2022 · +7.8 wins
Latest season · 2026 · +5.2 wins
How often Karl-Anthony Towns led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 13 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 2022, 11 rated seasons.
Season boards
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top-ten finishes across the NBA season boards
The season chip above measures Karl-Anthony Towns's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Kentucky | 39 | 39 | 21.1 | 56.6% | 25.0% | 81.3% | 6.7 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 10.3 |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
On the NBA Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 97.1th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
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NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNBA Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNBA Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNBA Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNBA Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNBA Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (All Positions)NBA Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on the Hall's DoorstepNBA JourneymenNBA League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsNBA LoyaltyNBA Only Club — Statistical ExclusivityNBA Rarest Seasons — Statistical RarityNBA Statistical Snubs — Eligible Careers the Hall Has Not TakenNBA VAL Leaders — Value Above LeagueWho Was the Best NBA Player Each Year?Career Twins — Equally Dominant Careers Across Different SportsCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Careers — The Greatest Careers, One AxisCross-Sport Era-Adjusted Seasons — The Greatest Years, One Axis
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.