Julius Randle’s meltdown leads to third straight Knicks defeat, goes 5-for-24 in loss to Clippers – The Denver Post

Julius Randle lost his cool.

It was a flashback to last season, when Jalen Brunson wasn’t around and Randle’s quick-triggered anger contributed to an ugly and spiraling season. But Randle seemed to get that under control as he re-emerged as a 2023 All-Star.

Until Saturday in Los Angeles.

Randle picked up a technical foul at the end of the third quarter after clobbering the Clippers’ Mason Plumlee in the chest with an elbow. After the whistle, Randle went after the referees and appeared upset with a Knicks security guard near the team bench.

It was an ugly scene and impossible not to correlate with Randle’s terrible basketball performance. With Brunson injured and in street clothes, Randle missed 19 of his 24 shots as the Knicks lost their third straight Saturday, 106-95,…