It was simply final week when Tom Thibodeau stood on a stage and launched Julius Randle.
“Everyone knows how nice he’s,” Thibodeau mentioned right into a microphone. “Three-time All-Star, two-time All-NBA. Very particular individual.”
Randle, a couple of minutes later, had a basketball courtroom named after him within the South Bronx. Why? He helped elevate greater than $1.3 million for the highschool, the Earl Monroe Renaissance College, with dozens of scholars in attendance for the Sept. 25 groundbreaking ceremony.
“There’s a monetary element [to the charity work], however extra importantly, it’s the time Julius places into it,” Thibodeau mentioned. “We would like all our gamers to be invested like that.”
