As sources told the story back in November 2023, Knicks forward Julius Randle had been “operating at about 70 percent” and “limited by pain” in the six-game stretch that saw him fail to break the 20-point barrier to start the season.
Through those six games, in which the Knicks could only go 2-4, Randle averaged 13.7 points barely shooting 27 percent from the floor and 22 percent from beyond the 3-point arc. There was serious talk about Randle’s disastrous start to the campaign as one of the worst ever, but I didn’t (correctly) buy the false narrative.