“They’re screaming for me to shoot,” he recalled. But …

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“They’re screaming for me to shoot,” he recalled. But …

Towns had to do something, anything, to honor a Marine he had never met. So the following day, he scored 25 varsity points against Perth Amboy — one for every year Reinhard spent on the planet — and then shut it down. “I just stopped shooting,” Towns recalled. His grandmother lived in Perth Amboy, and his entire family was in the stands, wanting him to add on to his new career high. “They’re screaming for me to shoot,” he recalled. But Towns was done looking at the basket, he said, “because I had learned what really mattered.”

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