Julius Randle is doing far more than just showing up these days
NY Post
Back when he was best known for being the original celebrity NBA fan, watching the fabled Knicks of the early ’70s do their thing night after night, Woody Allen unwittingly lent a voice to describe one of the cornerstones of a future generation of Knicks.
“Eighty percent of success,” he said, “is showing up.”
With the rate of inflation, and given the way load-management protocols seem to flummox the NBA at every turn, that figure is probably closer to 92 percent now, especially as it applies to Julius Randle. Randle can be many things as a basketball player, and to Knicks fans who endeavor nightly to watch him they can often be contradictory.
Often within the same game.
Sometimes in the same possession.
But make no mistake about Randle: he shows up. He plays. Monday night in Los Angeles he twisted his ankle in the first quarter. Shook it off. At halftime he needed four stitches to close a bloody lip. Shook it off.
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