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Wednesday Headlines: All-NBA Julius Randle Edition

Randle was named Second-Team after a breakout season

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Julius Randle is adding another accolade after a breakthrough season.

Randle was named second team All-NBA by the league on Tuesday.

Randle joins Damian Lillard, Chris Paul, Joel Embiid, and LeBron James on the All-NBA second team. Pretty good company if you ask me.

In his seventh season, Randle put together his best season in the league, averaging career-bests in points (24.1), rebounds (10.2), assists (6.0), steals (1.0), minutes (37.6), 3-point percentage (41.1) and free throw percentage (81.1).

He also put together 41 double-doubles and 6 triple-doubles over the course of the season.

He joins Anthony Davis (2015, 2017, 2018, 2020), Karl-Anthony Towns (2018), John Wall (2017), and DeMarcus Cousins (2016) as former Wildcats under John Calipari to be named All-NBA.

Most Improved Player and Second Team All-NBA. Not a bad season for the former Wildcat.

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Would be pretty cool if Kentucky had a player named Omaha.

Headlines

Louisville offers Reed Sheppard - Herald Leader

Will the Cats offer too?

Boston, Jackson invited to NBA Combine - Cats Pause

A great time to build their draft stock.

Calipari makes list of candidates to fill NBA vacancies - Yahoo

An annual tradition it seems.

Taking a deeper look at Kentucky’s sack production - KSR

Needs to be a big year for Jordan Wright and JJ Weaver.

Kevin Durant put on a show last night - ESPN

KD came through in the clutch.

Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum missed out on a lot of money - Bleacher Report

All for not being named All-NBA.

Derek Carr said he’d rather quit than play for another team - CBS

That good in Vegas, huh?