‘A Crushing Blow’: Julius Randle OUT for season + Joel Embiid’s status | SportsCenter

‘A Crushing Blow’: Julius Randle OUT for season + Joel Embiid’s status | SportsCenter

If you listen to Josh Hart and some of the Knicks lately you kind of knew this would be coming the breaking news today that Julius Randall is done for the season wo reporting that he’ll have surgery on his right shoulder which will table him until next season Randall

Hasn’t played since January 27th when he dislocated the shoulder rehab didn’t help doctors told Randall that the instability in the joint made it unsafe for him to play and for more on this we bring in our NBA reporter Tim bontemp so Tim I know you’re in Miami there with

The Sixers and we’re going to get to Joel embi and his story in just a minute but first uh Julius Randall where do the Knicks go from here well David this is obviously a crushing blow to a Nicks team that if you go back to the start of January when

They traded for ogn and Obi through those first 14 games with ogn and Obi and Julius Randall on the court the Knicks look like one of the best teams in the entire NBA they went 12-2 in those games they were outscoring teams by 15 points per 100 possessions and it

Looked like that OG trade could lift the Knicks into Championship contention territory but ever since Julius Randle went to the ground at MSG when he took a charge from Jaime hakz from the Miami Heat we’ll be playing tonight as you said against Joel and be in the Sixers

Randall has been trying to come back from that shoulder injury and he’s been in a controlled contact phase of his rehab for the past several weeks and you’d see him out on the court at MSG before games maniacally working out trying to get to a place where he could

Play but the longer he stayed in that controlled contact phase of his rehab and didn’t progress to five on five full contact you sort of wondered if this was going to be the outcome for him and as you mentioned Josh Hart after the loss to Oklahoma City on Sunday night at MSG

Said he and the Knicks are planning to be pleasantly surprised if either ojan and Obi or Julius Randle come back obviously we now know that Julius Randle won’t be back and as you mentioned adri worin asku reported earlier today that not only will Randall have this surgery

But it’ll be re-evaluated in five months so we’re not it it is not entirely clear even if the surgery goes perfectly well that he’ll be ready for the start of the 2425 season but obviously Randall and nicks spent the last couple months working really hard trying to get him on

The court for this playoff push and what’s been a a terrific season for the Knicks who are still trying to get home court advantage in the East and now if they’re going to do it they’re going to do it without Julius Randall devastating blow for the Nick Knicks team right now

Fifth in the East and and trying to make up ground but it doesn’t look great for them at this point all right the reason we were going to have y on Tim was was Sixers in heat and Joel embiid who came back Tuesday had a really nice game 24

Points and 29 minutes but afterward had some comments about not feeling good it’s expected he’s not going to feel 100% physically but he made reference to being depressed during his recuperation it just sort of was concerning what do you hearing about embiid ahead of tonight’s game well just to clarify a little bit

David what embiid was talking about was he’s obviously dealt with a lot of injuries throughout his career and he said that the rehab process for this injury and the fact that he suffered this injury when Jonathan kaminga fell on that left leg in goal in state at the

End of January was as depressed as he’s been coming back from an injury in his career and I think part of that David is frankly because of just how dominant Joel embiid was playing remember he’s coming off winning his first MVP last year he was averaging more points than

Minutes played something no one other than Wilt Chamberlain has ever done in the history of the league and he had the Sixers even after the James Harden trade right in the middle of the mix to be in a top four seed in the Eastern Conference so now as you said emid was

Able to play 29 minutes on Tuesday felt good physically coming out of that game he is questionable for tonight’s game along with Tyrese Maxi and Tobias Harris we’ll find out later about all three of them but the Sixers are used to Joel embiid being questionable he’s regularly

Questionable for games then is able to go and a beid himself said Tuesday as long as there’s no setbacks with that knee and he was here at the gayah center participated in shoot around he will be able to go tonight so we’ll see in a couple hours where that sits all right

Sixers currently in the eighth spot that’s a playin position we’ll see where they wind up as uh we really are rounding up the the end of the season here Tim giving us the very latest from Miami

‘A Crushing Blow’: Julius Randle OUT for season + Joel Embiid’s status | SportsCenter
Tim Bontemps joins SportsCenter to give the latest on New York Knicks PF Julius Randle as he’ll undergo season-ending shoulder surgery before speaking on Joel Embiid being listed as questionable for Thursday night’s game between the Philadelphia 76ers and the Miami Heat.
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