What if…?
Without Karl-Anthony Towns, New York Knicks were 6.0 points per game worse
75 games with him · 6 without, in 2025-26
-6.0
points per game
The question
What would have changed if Karl-Anthony Towns had not played?
This answer is not published
- The evidence does not support what would be claimed.
The evidence
Without Karl-Anthony Towns, New York Knicks were 6.0 points per game worse
The claim goes unshown because something specific is missing:
- · The sample is too small to hold it up.6 partidos — el umbral de esta unidad es 10
The fact
What actually happened, game by game, in 2025-26. None of this is an estimate.
With Karl-Anthony Towns in the box score
+7.03 points per game
75 games · 49-26 · 117.6 – 110.5
Without him
+1.00 points per game
6 games · 4-2 · 106.0 – 105.0
The assumptions
What we decided in order to answer. If an assumption does not hold for you, neither does the answer.
- That the 6 games without him represent a whole season without him.
- That opponent quality is spread evenly across both groups. We have not controlled for it.
- That other absences do not systematically coincide with his.
The estimated result
Arithmetic on the two figures above, nothing else: the per-game difference carried over a 82-game season.
- points of margin per game-6.03
- Across 82 games that is -494 points of accumulated margin.
FactDerivedAssumption
What this does NOT prove
- This does NOT say he is the cause. A team without its best player also changes rotation, opponent and schedule at the same time.
- It rests on 6 games without him. At that sample size, a couple of odd games move the number.
- It is not a forecast for next season: it is what happened in the one already played.
From here
Contract sheet
Source
2026-04-10
Model input
not stated
Computation
not stated
This answer
2026-09-24
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