Towns notched 22 points (9-20 FG, 1-5 3Pt, 3-5 FT), nine rebounds, two assists, one block and one steal over 38 minutes in Monday's 124-118 win over Houston.

Those numbers recently, though, have trickled on down due to a number of different factors including a thumb injury that has left him under 100 percent for most games in January. In his last five ...