Questions answered, problem solved?
According to sources quoted by Stefan Bondy of the New York Post in a revealing story published on Thursday, Nov. 9, Julius Randle was “operating at about ‘70 percent’” throughout the first few games of the season.
Bondy’s source told him that Randle was “too proud to sit,” even though the New York Knicks staff recommended he do that through “the opening week-plus” of the season.
According to the report, Randle was “limited by pain” in his ankle following surgery last summer, and he “resisted attempts from the Knicks to get him to rest,” per multiple sources.