While the Knicks chatter cools around Karl-Anthony Towns, his father embarks on a quest to revive his old New Jersey high school team

He doesn’t know when, but at some point this NBA offseason, Karl Towns Sr.’s players will walk into the gym at Saint Joseph High School in Metuchen, N.J., and see his son — Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns — working out on the same court that helped shape his career.

Towns Sr., hired as the Saint Joseph head coach earlier this month after 10 years away from the high school game, will want his players to watch Towns. To be inspired. To see they can’t fool around, to notice that “it’s all business,” to, inevitably, talk with Towns and get involved with his drills.

Towns has been the lasting centerpiece of the Timberwolves’ revival — from “losing for 20 years” and first-round exits to, finally, a breakthrough run this postseason to the Western Conference finals. He’ll play a role in Towns Sr.’s revival of the Saint Joseph program, too, which will rely on its head coach and its former players to revamp the team that won the state championship a decade ago.

“This is family,” Towns Sr. told Sports+. “This is home. This is where he became Karl-Anthony Towns. This is where he established his name: Saint Joe’s.”