Julius Randle is back on his pandemic groove.
The Knicks power forward, who earned his first and only All-Star appearance while playing in empty arenas during that shortened 2020-21 season, dropped 33 points Friday — giving him 67 for the last two games (and an average of 27.2 points in the last six) — as the Knicks pummeled the injury-riddled Hornets, 121-102.
“He’s cooking, man,” RJ Barrett said about Randle. “He really started us off.”