Karl-Anthony Towns has won the 2023-24 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award.
An NBA selection committee chose Towns “due to his dedication to pursue social justice and uphold Abdul-Jabbar and the league’s decades-long values of equality, respect and inclusion,” an NBA source said.
Other finalists included Bam Adebayo, CJ McCollum, Lindy Waters III and Russell Westbrook.
Towns played a key role in the passage of Minnesota’s Restore the Vote bill (H.F.28), a bipartisan legislation that restored the right to vote to more than 55,000 formerly incarcerated people in March 2023.
Towns is expected to receive the award before Friday's Game 3 against the Denver Nuggets.
