How Knicks can adjust without Julius Randle after injury
NY Post
The Knicks will be without Julius Randle for at least one game, likely at least a few weeks and perhaps for the season.
How do they replace him?
They don’t — there is no available stud forward who will average an efficient 24 points and 9.2 rebounds — but they will have to try.
“Our mentality is always next man up,” Jalen Brunson said after Saturday’s win over the Heat at the Garden, the Knicks’ sixth straight. “We got to stick together. We can’t just have one person pick up the slack or anything.”
After Randle dislocated his right shoulder Saturday, there was no further update apart from his sitting out for the first time this season Monday in Charlotte.
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