Knicks shut down Karl-Anthony Towns contract talks before season

Karl-Anthony Towns; Josh HartThe Knicks have paused all contract extension negotiations – including their increasingly spicy back-and-forth with Karl-Anthony Towns.Four days after Towns expressed frustration with what he intimated was an insulting offer, the Knicks released a statement Friday morning that attempted to temporarily put the kibosh on both negotiations and distractions.It was further evidence that the sides weren’t close to an agreement before the regular-season opener O