NEW YORK — The temperature read on Julius Randle — two days after a defeat ended in anger because he was fouled on his butt by Jarrett Allen — was cooler than a polar bear’s toenails.
The Knicks power forward, not frequently an engaging interview, smiled through his session with reporters Thursday, clearly eager for Friday’s tipoff of the pivotal Game 3.
“I’m probably having the most fun that I’ve had in my nine-year career in the league,” Randle told reporters at the Knicks’ practice facility in Tarrytown. “The game-to-game adjustments, the gamesmanship. Intensity. All that type of stuff. It’s fun for me because it’s a test on my mental, and I feel great. I don’t know, I just enjoy it.
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