VIDEO: When rookies come to play, Okafor turns Towns away

Monday provided the first NBA meeting between Karl-Anthony Towns and Jahlil Okafor. When the former was chosen first in June's draft and the latter dropped to third, the conventional wisdom was that Okafor was the inferior defender.

Not so, he said as his Philadelphia 76ers visited the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Okafor outscored Towns 19-2 in the first half, as well.