Karl-Anthony Towns didn’t need the money.

But he has an important standard for his personal card collection – and Yoshinobu Yamamoto didn’t fit the criteria.

“I’m a big Yankee fan,” Towns said. “My collection has a lot of Yankees in it.”

Towns auctioned a one-of-a-kind autographed Yamamoto card Thursday night for $72,000, making it the most expensive sale ever for an L.A. Dodgers pitcher.

Towns, who is earning over $49 million this season as the Knicks power forward, is a card enthusiast who has an Instagram account dedicated to hobby called “BigBodegaCards.”

He said the rarest card in his personal collection is a 1933 Lou Gehrig card, valued at roughly $14,000.

And while Towns, a former pitcher in high school, enjoys watching Yamamoto, he thought somebody else would better appreciat

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