Barrett gave the Knicks another honest day’s work in Sunday’s win, delivering 28 points, 14 rebounds, and six assists.
before being asked if he has already arrived, at age 21, as a player who can consistently carry his team to happier days.
Barrett has to carry the Knicks, which is a lot to ask of a kid who reached legal drinking age only seven months ago. And it doesn’t appear that Randle will be that guy. Despite Tom Thibodeau’s earlier plea that players not “get wrapped up in any personal dilemmas,” last year’s leading man has botched the sequel out of spite. He finally appeared in a postgame interview room Sunday after an extended boycott of the media and strangely thanked James Dolan for absorbing a $25,000 league fine.
Playing at a dangerously sleepy start time, Barrett raged against his relatively calm and cool disposition because he knew the moment required some heat. He even got in an official’s face and earned a rare technical foul. “You know, I am human,” he said. And mature enough to later apologize to the ref.
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