Randle hasn’t played since, giving Toppin - the athletic, dunking, fast-break specialist - the chance to start at power forward. Knicks’ Julius Randle fined $40K for ‘hostile language’ toward official
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Randle and Robinson sat out with sore quadriceps and back, respectively.īoth are potential offseason goners - Randle via trade, Robinson via unrestricted free agency. Their starting center, Mitchell Robinson, was out, too. The Knicks got an early peek into a post-Randle era Wednesday in Charlotte. The video begged the question: What does that mean for Randle’s future? Neither Toppin nor Randle is versatile enough to be viewed as capable of playing another frontcourt position, such as center or small forward. Last August, Randle signed a four-year, $118 million contract extension. The caption was eyebrow-raising, considering Toppin plays Julius Randle’s position of power forward. MIAMI - Earlier this week, the company-run MSG Network Twitter handle posted a video of RJ Barrett and Obi Toppin sitting on the bench together. How the Knicks’ front office fumbled its long pursuit of Donovan Mitchell Knicks sign Jalen Brunson’s backcourt mate at Villanova Knicks sign Ukrainian wing to one-year deal It’s been a tough go, for sure.Jeremy Lin’s Kobe Bryant showdown focus of new documentary on former Knick Honestly, everything I did was because of him. It’s been tough, tough to honestly find the motivation to play. “You know, honestly, it’s been a rough month, my grandmother and this. It was tough for me, honestly, dealing with it,” he said. Randle wasn’t sure how he got through it. Kyrie Irving, who has had a long relationship with Bryant, could not go on and left the arena before the game. Randle played Sunday just after learning of Bryant’s passing, considering sitting out but instead taking the floor and scoring 22 points and grabbing 15 rebounds to lead the Knicks to a win over the Nets. There are a bunch of families involved for such a tragic tragic thing.” He has three beautiful daughters that he has, a lovely caring wife. For me, I’m just going to - just pray for his family. I could go on forever what I can take from him and learn from him. He always used to tell me, watch everything that he does. The GM here, Mitch Kupchak, was my GM in L.A. “You grow up idolizing somebody you don’t really know what to expect when you first meet him.
“I’ve got so many stories I could tell, so many things I learned from him,” Randle said. And then when they went different ways, Bryant continued to be a sounding board on work, on family, on life. Lessons continued in the gym in his second season. and establish a relationship with him was amazing for me.”īut the lessons didn’t end when his rookie season did, Bryant providing spiritual boosts to the then 20-year-old Randle, lifting him through that harsh start to his career. For me, like I said, it was everything because I grew up idolizing him. Just to know that anytime I could text him or call him, he’ll pick up the phone. So it’s a very unfortunate situation for me, but I can’t imagine what his family is going through, all the families that are involved. “For me, man, he was everything, bro,” Randle said.
That rookie season ended for Randle just 14 minutes into his first game when he suffered a season-ending leg injury. Randle spent the first two seasons of his NBA career in Los Angeles with Bryant, who was in the final years of his 20-year career with the Lakers. “Yeah, I don’t know when I’ll be able to come to peace with it,” Randle said. It was clear that it will take more time for these players to process the loss of Bryant, who perished along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash Sunday morning. When they took the floor Randle scored 24 points, but he - and the Knicks - cooled down and dropped a 97-92 decision to the Hornets, who had lost eight straight games and were playing their first game after a Paris trip. When the interview was over he dropped his head and just sat in the front row of the stands alone, left to his thoughts. And he tried his best to explain all of the feelings he was living through. Julius Randle, who had a long and enduring relationship with Bryant, did talk, two days after he was unable to summon the words.
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