Karl Anthony-Towns’ Peers in the NBA Send Love After His Mother Dies From Coronavirus
The NBA community is mourning the loss of Timberwolves star Karl Anthony-Towns' mother, Jacqueline Cruz-Towns.
On Monday afternoon, the Towns family announced the 58-year-old passed away from complications caused by the coronavirus.
According to the statement, Jacqueline had been fighting the illness for "more than a month", but she "succumbed" to Covid-19 on April 13.
"Jackie was many things to many people—a wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend," the Towns family said in their statement.
"The matriarch of the Towns family, she was an incredible source of strength; fiery, caring, and extremely loving person, who touched everyone she met....