Julius Randle is making his 2nd #NBAAllStar appearance. Drafted as the 7th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft out of the Kentucky, Randle was named #KiaMIP for the 2020-21 season. This season, he’s averaging 24.7 PPG, 10.9 RPG and 4.1 APG for the New York Knicks. Never miss a moment with the latest news,
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Obi Toppin’s recent offensive surge only has accentuated the intriguing question — and the clamoring of chanting fans — whether the Knicks can find him more playing time next season, particularly when Julius Randle is healthy and available. If the Knicks remain committed to Randle, who will miss his fifth consecutive game in Sunday’s season
SAN FRANCISCO — Knicks president Leon Rose didn’t see an upgrade and declined to sell off pieces at Thursday’s trade deadline and hurt the team’s chances to contend. Rose kept the struggling band together, and for one night, it paid off as the Knicks posted a stunning and thrilling 116-114 upset win over the mighty
LOS ANGELES — The Knicks arrived in Hollywood Thursday night, devoid of any stars, to start their five-game western trip. No Rising Stars. No current stars. On Thursday, the NBA released its All-Star reserves and Julius Randle was shut out — as expected — denying him a chance of a second straight appearance in the
Emotions have gotten the better of Julius Randle during his disappointing season. Whether it’s been railing at the referees, his thumbs-down gesture to the fans or refusal to meet with the press after several games since mid-December, the 2020-21 All-Star has acted more like a hothead than a heavenly body. Sacramento coach Alvin Gentry, his
A laughing Julius Randle bounded into the interview room late Monday. Indeed, the Knicks — and Randle — enjoyed a rare giddy evening at the Garden in a 116-96 laugher over the woebegone Kings. After a desultory 0-3 road trip and with trade rumors swirling, they routed Sacramento by sharing the ball, dominating the boards
Is this Julius Randle’s big audition to be part of “All the Kings’ Men”? And De’Aaron Fox’s Garden tryout? The Kings visit Monday amid reports Sacramento is looking to wheel and deal with the same fervor as Leon Rose’s Knicks. There’s been reports Fox, the Kings’ point guard, is on the block because his presence
A Knicks fan claimed that Julius Randle had him kicked out of FTX Arena in Miami earlier this week for heckling the slumping forward. Earlier this month, Randle was fined $25,000 for saying a thumbs-down gesture was intended to say “shut the f-ck up” to booing fans at Madison Square Garden. A caller to WFAN’s
We will find out soon enough if the feeling is mutual, but Julius Randle remains committed to the Knicks. The slumping All-Star forward said Friday in Milwaukee that he “wouldn’t change” his decision to sign a contract extension worth up to $117 million with the Knicks last summer — even despite his declining numbers, the
Julius Randle inspired so much goodwill last year, it was easy to see the start of something special. Maybe this pairing of star and market would never approach what baseball’s newest Hall of Famer, David Ortiz, had with Boston, but the big man and the big city looked happy enough together to picture them in
MIAMI — The Miami Heat showed why they may win the Eastern Conference, and the Knicks showed why they won’t make the playoffs if they keep the status quo. Last season, the Knicks finished ahead of the Heat in the standings, and that just seems eons ago. The Knicks were pummeled from the opening tap
CLEVELAND — On the bright side, the Knicks took the resurgent Cavaliers down to the wire. On the dim side, it was another wildly erratic night for Julius Randle, who was outplayed by Cavaliers veteran Kevin Love and rookie Evan Mobley. In failing a big test in Northeast Ohio against the resurgent Cavaliers, the Knicks
The Knicks got a little of the old Julius Randle back for one afternoon and a lot of the new-and-improved RJ Barrett. The maligned Randle set the tone with a strong first quarter and RJ Barrett carried the Knicks the rest of the way in a 110-102 Sunday matinee victory over the undermanned Clippers at
On A cold Saturday in Tarrytown, Julius Randle kept the freeze going between him, Knicks fans and media. The Knicks were staging media availability for the first time since Thursday’s New Orleans debacle, and the scribes requested Randle following practice. Randle hasn’t spoken to the press since after practice on Jan. 11, when the forward
As frustration builds, the Knicks are not just losing games but money, too. The team has been fined $25,000 for violating league rules concerning media interview access, the NBA announced Friday, one day after the team refused to make Julius Randle available to reporters following a 102-91 loss to the Pelicans. Randle, the team’s best
Thursday’s Knicks-Pelicans game was supposed to be on national television, but was pulled because of Zion Williamson’s season-long absence. It is very good thing, sparing the Knicks and Julius Randle a nationally televised embarrassment as the Pelicans rolled to a 102-91 trouncing before a wave of ferocious boos at the Garden. As the Knicks dropped
ATLANTA — If Julius Randle and RJ Barrett had played this sharply against the Hawks last spring, the Knicks would have won that first-round playoff series. The Hawks fans were chanting “playoff chokers’’ in the first half Saturday night at State Farm Arena, but Randle and Barrett shut them up with a combined 50 points
For much of the Knicks’ thrashing of the Dallas Mavericks, Julius Randle was A Problem, in basketball parlance. He bullied his way to the basket on Wednesday, like when he absorbed contact from three defenders to finish a layup in the first half. He pushed the ball up the floor. He deftly found open shooters
At least Julius Randle won’t be getting fined for his latest press conference. Speaking to media for the first time Tuesday since revealing that his message with his thumbs-down to the Garden crowd on Thursday night was to “shut the f–k up,” the Knicks forward was not at all interested in talking about the ensuing
This was a strange Madison Square Garden night in a strange New York Knicks season, starting right there with the pregame introductions. Julius Randle was back home for the first time since giving the fans the thumb, since profanely telling them to shut up, and instead of being warmly embraced or loudly rebuked the star
Julius Randle got some light boos during pregame introductions in his first home game since his infamous thumbs-down gesture. But really it’s not just what the fans think but Knicks brass. Randle’s standing with the brass is unknown. The team didn’t comment on Randle’s gesture to Knicks’ fans in the last home game Thursday versus
Now Julius Randle must face the music, the Garden’s loyal fans and the “Bing-Bongs” when the Knicks host the Spurs on Monday. It will be interesting to see the crowd reaction Randle receives when he is introduced as part of the starting lineup before the contest. These Knicks fans have taken so much abuse this
Julius Randle told New York Knicks fans to “shut the f*** up,” and now he’ll pay the price. The NBA fined Randle $25,000 for using “profane language during media interviews,” the league announced Saturday. The league called out two instances in which Randle used profane language in an “egregious” manner. The first occurred after practice
BOSTON — It was a thumbs-down performance by the Knicks — and Julius Randle. Evan Fournier was out with a bruised hip, so the Knicks needed Randle to be his All-Star self Saturday night against the Celtics, especially after the power forward created an unnecessary distraction for the team this week. But Randle appeared to
New York Knicks star Julius Randle took to Instagram to issue a public apology to the team’s fans for the gesture that he showed to them during the game against the Boston Celtics. The fans expressed their disappointment with the way the 27-year-old power forward was performing during the game by booing him. In response,
BOSTON — Julius Randle didn’t get a free pass from the NBA on Saturday and it is to be determined whether he will get a free pass from the fans he may have insulted. Despite the long apology he issued Friday night on Instagram at the encouragement of the Knicks and his team at Creative
“I understand that my actions also represent the league, this organization, and the city, and that I should have handled things last night differently and expressed myself with more professionalism and more appropriate language in the heat of the moment,” Randle wrote on Instagram before the fine was levied. “My comment was an example of
see also Julius Randle’s sweat equity earns him a free pass — this time Despite his apology, Julius Randle has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for two incidents of “egregious use of profane language” this week relating to fans. Randle made his comments to the media on two separate occasions – postgame following the Knicks’
Go ahead and give Julius Randle a pass, just this one time. He handed New York a precious gift last year, manna from basketball heaven, so how about we return the favor and call it even? He made a mistake Thursday night, a big one. Randle declared himself the last man in the city who
Julius Randle addressed his thumbs-down gesture and vulgar message toward Knicks fans. “I understand that my actions also represent the league, this organization, and the city, and that I should have handled things last night differently and expressed myself with more professionalism and more appropriate language in the heat of the moment,” Randle said in