It’s been a big postseason already for Karl-Anthony Towns.
He led the Knicks to a first-round series victory over the Hawks, and Friday, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” was released in theaters, with Towns making a cameo appearance.
Towns plays himself in the movie, appearing in a scene in which he attends a party at the Hamptons house of Miranda Priestly, who is played by Meryl Streep.
He is introduced to Anne Hathaway’s character, Andy.
She tells him she’s a big fan of his and the Knicks.
“It was an honor,” Towns said. “It was an honor and it was awesome to just see the masses of work at work in the acting world, and to be able to see them just do what they do at the highest level, it was such an honor.”
Towns was invited to the red-carpet premiere, but he couldn’t make it.
It was the same night as Game 2 of the Knicks’ first-round series against the Hawks.
In real life, the 43-year-old Hathaway is a big fan of the Knicks, frequently attending games at the Garden.
“I’m very chill, loving and calm, but I’m also the type of fan that I considered wearing an OG [Anunoby] jersey out here today,” Hathaway said in a recent appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“When I’m at the game, I want them to know that I know who they are and that they’re going to win. I don’t want to get out into like, ‘What are you doing?’ [and] all that; I want them to know that you can do no wrong. I’m trying to be a gentle, loving, motherly fan.”
The Knicks began using Jalen Brunson as a screener more frequently toward the end of the Hawks series.
Coach Mike Brown believes he has seen only one guard better as a screener: John Stockton.
“You have to have a toughness about you to screen, because if you are a point guard, you are probably screening somebody bigger than you every time you screen somebody,” Brown said. “John had a toughness about him. And Jalen has a toughness about him. Steph [Curry] has a toughness about him. It takes that first and the rest of the stuff comes after.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
