{"id":12803,"date":"2022-01-21T20:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/2022\/01\/21\/knicks-fined-for-refusing-to-make-julius-randle-available\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T20:42:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T20:42:26","slug":"knicks-fined-for-refusing-to-make-julius-randle-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/knicks-fined-for-refusing-to-make-julius-randle-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fined for refusing to make Julius Randle available"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As frustration builds, the Knicks are not just losing games but money, too.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Randle, the team\u2019s best player, has not spoken publicly after eight of the past nine games during a stretch that has included Garden fans booing him, chanting for his replacement (Obi Toppin) and, in one case, Randle flashing a thumbs-down as a way to to jeer the fans right back.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle has not spoken to the media for eight of the past nine games.<\/figcaption>
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In explaining the gesture, Randle said he wanted to tell home fans to \u201cshut the f\u2013k up,\u201d which led to a $25,000 fine levied on Jan. 8 for a second incident of \u201cegregious use of profane language.\u201d Randle later apologized for the incident.<\/p>\n

Randle has been costing himself money when he speaks and the Knicks lost some in denying him the obligation of speaking, all while the team searches for answers.<\/p>\n

The loss to New Orleans at the Garden was the third straight, and Randle tallied as many made baskets (one) as technical fouls, shouting at an official after the first-half buzzer sounded. He finished with four points on 1-of-9 shooting as the Knicks, who would be in the lottery if the season ended today, slid to 22-24.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1750,779,507,215,409,2210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803"}],"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=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12805,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions\/12805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}