Julius Randle’s wife, Kendra Randle, opened up on what it’s like for her husband to be traded for the first time in his NBA career.
Julius Randle was getting ready to begin his eleventh NBA season and sixth with the New York Knicks. However, last Friday, two days before the start of training camp, NBA insider Shams Charania broke news that he was being traded to Minnesota.
Charania reported that the Timberwolves traded star center Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks in exchange for Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo and a first-round pick via the Detroit Pistons.
When fans generally hear of a player being traded, they usually focus on how it affects both teams. What they don’t see is what goes on behind the scenes for the player’s family.
In a video posted on TikTok, Kendra Randle spoke about what it was like for her family to be traded for the first time. While she claimed it was tough to leave the Big Apple, she admitted they “were so ready to leave New York.”
“It has been pretty crazy for our first time and unexpected, and I’m not gonna lie, when we heard Minnesota, it was pretty shocking, although we were so ready to leave New York,” she said. “Living in a condo with two kids is so hard. I don’t care what anyone says, it was a great experience, but we were already looking to move outside of the city. It was just getting so hard and overwhelming for us because my husband’s from Texas, and I’m from Kentucky, and that’s just not how we grew up.”