{"id":13916,"date":"2022-02-05T11:40:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/knicks-julius-randle-not-disappointed-by-all-star-snub\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:40:57","slug":"knicks-julius-randle-not-disappointed-by-all-star-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/knicks-julius-randle-not-disappointed-by-all-star-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; Julius Randle not disappointed by All-Star snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Knicks arrived in Hollywood Thursday night, devoid of any stars, to start their five-game western trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No Rising Stars. No current stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the NBA released its All-Star reserves and Julius Randle was shut out \u2014 as expected \u2014 denying him a chance of a second straight appearance in the All-Star Game, which will take place Feb. 20 in Cleveland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah,\u2019\u2019 Randle said when asked if he\u2019s disappointed. \u201cI\u2019m trying to win games. That\u2019s what I get paid to do, win games.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randle missed out on a $600,000 All-Star bonus. Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said Randle is treated like an All-Star considering the attention he\u2019s paid by opposing defenses. But the coach said he didn\u2019t get the selection from the coaching vote because of the Knicks\u2019 24-28 record \u2014 which currently has them out of Eastern Conference play-in round.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Julius Randle was not voted in to the All-Star game. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn any given year, there\u2019s always a number of guys who are deserving and don\u2019t get it,\u2019\u2019 Thibodeau said. \u201cThere\u2019s not enough spots for guys who have had All-Star type years. A big part of that is the success of the team. I know from voting it\u2019s a tough position for coaches to be in. You get down to the end and you\u2019re wrestling with it. You got three or four guys and two spots or one spot. You\u2019re saying how am I going to determine who actually gets there? Usually the next criteria is what\u2019s the impact on the team. What team is doing better.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Asked if Randle is playing at an All-Star level, Thibodeau said: \u201cYeah, when you look at all the things that he does, our team hasn\u2019t played up to what we should be playing up to. There\u2019s a lot of things that go into it.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randle\u2019s biggest decrease numbers-wise is his 3-point shooting, which has dropped from 41.4 percent to 30.3 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randle, who didn\u2019t speak to the press following the Knicks\u2019 loss to Memphis on Wednesday, explained why he went into the Grizzlies\u2019 huddle to pick up a double technical with Desmond Bane, who pushed him. Randle also picked up a second technical with 34 seconds left, leading to an automatic ejection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do it all the time, when coming out of timeout,\u2019\u2019 Randle said. \u201cI try to, I guess, cheat almost and see what the other team is running. And I kind of snuck over there to their bench to try to see what was on the board. Bane kind of pushed me, I pushed him back. That was it.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>LeBron James has missed the Lakers\u2019 past five games with knee irritation. He\u2019s in danger of missing the game Saturday, which would mean not playing against the Knicks for a second straight season. He didn\u2019t play either game last season, and missed the Garden match on Nov. 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou prepare both ways,\u2019\u2019 Thibodeau said. \u201cWhether he plays or doesn\u2019t play, you have to have plan in place if he plays and one if he doesn\u2019t play.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Knick Carmelo Anthony hurt his hamstring against the Clippers on Thursday and likely will be out, too.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Knicks arrived in Hollywood Thursday night, devoid of any stars, to start their five-game western trip.\u00a0 No Rising Stars. No current stars.\u00a0 On Thursday, the NBA released its All-Star reserves and Julius Randle was shut out \u2014 as expected \u2014 denying him a chance of a second straight appearance in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[2242,507,215,409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916"}],"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=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13918,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions\/13918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}