Karl-Anthony Towns is the NBA's active leader for fouling out of games. The New York Knicks center fouled out of Tuesday night's contest against the Indiana Pacers, his 45th game in his career with six fouls.
Towns is the only active player with at least 40 games fouled out. This season specifically, the five-time All-Star leads the NBA with 48 offensive fouls.
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That's 14 more than the player with the second most offensive fouls in the league, center Jaren Jackson Jr. of the Utah Jazz, with 34.
Towns' tendency to commit offensive fouls
Towns is one of the best three-point shooting big men in NBA history, but he runs into trouble when he drives to the rim.
He has a tendency to hook his arm around the defender's back or arm to create space, resulting in an offensive foul.
"For the life of me, I don't understand why KAT won't stop hooking," Stefan Bondy, who covers the Knicks for the New York Post, wrote on X during Tuesday night's game against the Pacers.
Towns is having one of the worst offensive seasons of his career, shooting 46% from the field while averaging 19.8 points per game, the lowest mark of his time in the NBA since his rookie year in 2015-16 with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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