The NBA announced Monday that Karl-Anthony Towns won the Western Conference’s Player of the Week for the fifth week of the 2017-18 NBA season.

Towns averaged 20.3 points, 12.3 rebounds and shot .526 from 3-point land. More importantly, the Timberwolves have won 3 of their last 4 games, and are off to one of the better starts in Timberwolves franchise history.

Raptors guard/forward DeMar DeRozan was this week’s winner from the Eastern Conference.

For more on Towns, check out Monday’s episode of Wolves Wired!

Tim Faklis

Tim Faklis is a senior editor and the Timberwolves beat writer for Zone Coverage, as well as an NBA contributor for Sporting News. He's written about basketball and music for A Wolf Among Wolves, VICE, City Pages, Fansided, Growler Mag, Hardwood Paroxysm, The Classical, and others. As it stands right now, he remains the world's biggest Trenton Hassell fan.

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