Karl-Anthony Towns with a heartfelt tribute to her late mother ❤️ #FIBAWC

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00:00 It's a FIBA World Cup and if there's anything I always wanted the guys to know and it's

00:06 something that he stressed to us a lot.

00:07 This is not about stats or it's not about awards.

00:11 This is about bringing our country pride and putting us in a place that no one thought

00:15 we could be at.

00:16 It's about the win and in that moment I'm just hearing the chants outside.

00:20 I understand that you know we made history last game against Italy and just to come to

00:24 this day we had a chance to really make history that we personally and our team wanted to

00:28 make we wanted to be able to say we won three games in a row in the World Cup.

00:32 We wanted to be able to say that we're the first in our group going to the second round.

00:39 Just a lot of pride in me.

00:40 Just a lot of pride just in my country, my mother's country, our country.

00:44 We've put a lot of hours into the gym.

00:46 We put a lot of sweat, tears, blood into this game not only for our clubs or the NBA but

00:53 for this country and I think this was just a culmination of all of our hard work since

00:57 we were young coming together to give our country a chance to have a chance to win in

01:01 the World Cup.

01:02 This is one of the pinnacles of basketball and for us to come out here to now be heavily

01:09 looked on as a team that could do a lot of damage or could win a lot of games here and

01:13 for us to come out here and do something really special so far is an amazing feeling and I

01:18 don't want us, I want our country, I want the fans, I want everyone who's been supporting

01:23 us to know that we're not just doing this for ourselves and our families but we're doing

01:28 it for their families.

01:29 We're doing it for our country.

01:30 We're doing it, like I said before, for the mothers who gave us men a chance to live this

01:34 dream that they mean.

01:37 You know how important mothers are to men so it means a lot that I think we both get

01:42 to do this for our mothers and make them proud and I know they're above looking down on us

01:46 really happy and proud that their boys are doing pretty well in the world.

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