Karl-Anthony Towns felt the comforting presence of his late mother, Jacqueline Cruz, while he and the Knicks took down the Spurs in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday (June 3). Speaking with Shaquille O’Neal and the rest of the Inside the NBA team after the game, which ended with a final score of 105-95 in the Knicks’ favor, Towns, who made his NBA Finals debut on Wednesday, attributed the sense of “peace” he felt while on the court to the sustaining spirit of his mother. “To be honest with y’all, I don't wanna sound sugarcoating or anything like that, but Shaq, you would know what I'm saying,” Towns said, as seen below. “I don't know what it was, but I just felt a calm and a peace that had to be coming from the woman above. So, I felt really confident about today. I felt good. I felt like a kid. It felt like it was just fun out here. This is something that, as a kid, you always dream about.” Towns’s mother died in 2020 due to complications from COVID-19.…