Karl-Anthony Towns revealed on Friday, December 4, that he has lost six more family members to COVID-19 since his mother, Jacqueline Cruz-Towns, died while battling the virus in April.“I’ve been through a lot, obviously starting out with my mom,” he said, according to ESPN. “Last night I got a call that I lost my uncle.
I feel like I’ve been hardened a little bit by life and humbled.”“I’ve seen a lot of coffins in the last seven months,” the NBA star, 25, said. “I have a lot of people who have — in my family and my mom’s family — gotten COVID.
I’m the one looking for answers still, trying to find how to keep them healthy. It’s just a lot of responsibility on me to keep my family well-informed and to make all the moves necessary to keep them.
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