Leave it to Karl-Anthony Towns to hit us with a polysyllabic word when describing how he felt when he first found out the Minnesota Timberwolves traded him to the New York Knicks. Towns has spent all nine years of his NBA career with the Wolves and from all accounts, he has genuinely embraced his Minneapolis area as home. Now he is going back East, closer to his original home of New Jersey, but that doesn’t mean the news of his involuntary relocation didn’t affect him. “[I felt] shock,” KAT told reporters at Knicks training camp, “Shock. The word flabbergasted would be more correct, but, um, s…