{"id":11180,"date":"2022-01-11T21:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/2022\/01\/11\/julius-randle-isnt-talking-about-thumbs-down-to-knicks-fans\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T21:52:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:52:54","slug":"julius-randle-isnt-talking-about-thumbs-down-to-knicks-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/julius-randle-isnt-talking-about-thumbs-down-to-knicks-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Randle isn&#8217;t talking about thumbs-down to Knicks fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>At least Julius Randle won\u2019t be getting fined for his latest press conference.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cshut the f\u2013k up,\u201d the Knicks forward was not at all interested in talking about the ensuing reaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already addressed it,\u201d Randle said repeatedly to multiple questions about the aftermath of his thumbs-down and postgame comments.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s \u201cshut the f\u2013k up\u201d line came a day after Randle insisted he didn\u2019t \u201cgive a s\u2013t\u201d about outside criticism. The 1-2 punch landed him a $25,000 fine by the NBA for \u201cegregious use of profane language,\u201d about which Randle said his reaction was \u201cnone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randle declined to answer questions about whether he hoped to mend his relationship with fans, whether management had spoken to him about the situation, or whether he was surprised by the backlash, continually repeating that he had already addressed it in an Instagram post on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Julius Randle speaks to the media after practice<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/julius-randle-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Julius Randle makes a thumbs-down gesture towards the MSG crowd\" class=\"wp-image-20796189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/julius-randle-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/julius-randle-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/julius-randle-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/julius-randle-8.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Julius Randle makes a thumbs-down gesture towards the MSG crowd<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 I should have handled things [Thursday] night differently and expressed myself with more professionalism and more appropriate language in the heat of the moment,\u201d Randle wrote as part of a longer post. \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<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<p>Randle was asked on Tuesday what led to him writing the message on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust felt like I needed to address certain stuff that was said, whatever it was,\u201d Randle said.<\/p>\n<p>Randle\u2019s first chance to get the Garden crowd back on his side Monday night did not go successfully, as he heard more boos while scoring just two points in the Knicks\u2019 win over the Spurs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least Julius Randle won\u2019t 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 \u201cshut the f\u2013k up,\u201d the Knicks forward was not at all interested in talking about the ensuing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[509,507,215,409,1399,817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180"}],"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=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11182,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions\/11182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}