The weekend before the preseason began, New York agreed to its second colossal transaction of the summer, sending Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Towns, a man the Knicks had kept in the corner of their sightline for years. But the trade hardly ended with those three people.

The New York Knicks made the blockbuster Karl-Anthony Towns deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves official Wednesday, which also included the Charlotte Hornets

Knicks acquire Karl-Anthony Towns in a blockbuster trade from the Timberwolves, with Towns set to wear his familiar No. 32 in New York.