{"id":10324,"date":"2022-01-07T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/2022\/01\/07\/julius-randle-addresses-thumbs-down-message-to-knicks-fans\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T23:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:56:50","slug":"julius-randle-addresses-thumbs-down-message-to-knicks-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/julius-randle-addresses-thumbs-down-message-to-knicks-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Randle addresses thumbs-down message to Knicks fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Julius Randle addressed his thumbs-down gesture and vulgar message toward Knicks fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d Randle said in a statement posted on his Instagram. \u201cMy comment was an example of how sometimes you say things you regret to people you love, even if it came from a place of passion and deep love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Knicks\u2019 108-105 win over the Celtics, Randle was captured giving a thumbs-down gesture towards fans \u2014\u00a0similar to the gesture Francisco Lindor, Kevin Pillar and Javier Baez infamously flashed toward Mets fans this past summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randle said the purpose of the gesture was \u201cto shut the f\u2013k up.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Julius Randle sent a message to Knicks fans about his thumbs-down gesture. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Screengrab<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked if it was in response to something, Randle added, \u201cYou saw that. You saw what was going on with that. Forget. Forget.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randle helped spark the Knicks\u2019 comeback, pouring in 22 points and eight rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody wants to win more than me and I will continue to show my loyalty and dedication to my teammates, the entire Knicks organization, and the fans who have shown me and my family so much love,\u201d Randle\u2019s statement stated. \u201cI am going to keep focusing on the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julius Randle addressed his thumbs-down gesture and vulgar message toward Knicks fans.\u00a0 \u201cI 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,\u201d Randle said in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1020,507,215,1021,409,817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10326,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10324\/revisions\/10326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}