{"id":13488,"date":"2022-01-29T00:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/2022\/01\/29\/fan-says-julius-randle-had-him-kicked-out-of-ftx-arena\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:24:12","slug":"fan-says-julius-randle-had-him-kicked-out-of-ftx-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/fan-says-julius-randle-had-him-kicked-out-of-ftx-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan says Julius Randle had him kicked out of FTX arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>A Knicks fan claimed that Julius Randle had him kicked out of FTX Arena in Miami earlier this week for heckling the slumping forward.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Randle was fined $25,000 for saying a thumbs-down gesture was intended to say \u201cshut the f-ck up\u201d to booing fans at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>A caller to WFAN\u2019s \u201cCarton &amp; Roberts\u201d who identified himself as Dylan from Miami said he had \u201ca horrible experience\u201d at Wednesday\u2019s road loss to the Heat.<\/p>\n<p>The fan said he was seated behind the visiting bench with his girlfriend when he stood up in the second quarter and yelled \u201cHey Randle, you get a $118 million contract and this is what I get? The fans get a thumbs down, this is what we get?\u201d The fan insisted during the call that he said \u201cnothing personal\u201d or profane, but he was issued a warning after Randle pointed him out to arena security.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Later in the game, the fan said he also yelled at the Knicks forward that he was \u201cminus-34\u201d in the blowout loss, and Randle alerted security again. The spectator then was thrown out of the game by two uniformed police officers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WFAN660\/status\/1487132751677513728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a video posted on WFAN\u2019s Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis head wasn\u2019t even in the game. He was just waiting for me to say the next thing,\u201d the caller added about Randle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>One fan says he was kicked out of Miami\u2019s FTX Arena for heckling Julius Randle.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ahead of Friday\u2019s game in Milwaukee, Randle told reporters that he still wants to \u201cbe a part of\u201d a potential turnaround with the Knicks and \u201csee this thing through.\u201d Randle\u2019s scoring and shooting numbers are down considerably from last season, when he was named to All-NBA second team after helping lead the Knicks to their first playoff berth since 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cshut the f-ck up\u201d to booing fans at Madison Square Garden. A caller to WFAN\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1066,507,2442,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488"}],"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=13488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13490,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13488\/revisions\/13490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}