Monday provided the first NBA meeting between Karl-Anthony Towns and Jahlil Okafor. When the former was chosen first in June's draft and the latter dropped to third, the conventional wisdom was that Okafor was the inferior defender.
Not so, he said as his Philadelphia 76ers visited the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Jahlil Okafor dominating Karl-Anthony Towns pic.twitter.com/D3PZaTZRAx
— Dylan Andrade (@dylanandrade138) November 24, 2015
Okafor outscored Towns 19-2 in the first half, as well.