The wife of former Knicks forward Julius Randle riled up fans Tuesday after posting a wine-toasting video across her social media pages curiously close to the same time news broke that the Knicks had fired head coach Tom Thibodeau.
In the video shared by Kendra Randle, she is seen holding a wine glass before toasting across the table while vacationing abroad.
“I can’t tell if this just a coincidence lmao,” one X user commented.
“This is crazy,” the Knicks Muse account posted alongside a crying-face emoji.
The Everything Knicks fan page replied with a pair of eyeball emojis.
For what it’s worth, this clip is one of several that Kendra shared on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday from the family’s postseason getaway.
Randle, 30, spent five seasons with the Knicks beginning in 2019 and earned three All-Star nods.
He and Knicks teammate Donte DiVincenzo were traded to the Timberwolves in a shocking fall blockbuster for Karl-Anthony Towns.
Kendra, who shares three children with Randle, to whom she’s been married to since 2017, penned a goodbye message to New York in the aftermath.
“NEW YORK! Thank you for an amazing 5 years,” she wrote Oct. 1 on Instagram. “You embraced our family and made living in New York so much easier and so much fun. I’m so grateful Kyden got to grow up in @thegarden and we got that experience as a family. Although we were going crazy in our condo and we’re ready for our next chapter as a family, I’m forever grateful for our 5 years there. To my husband, you came in and changed the culture and brought winning back to NYC. Forever my inspiration and I’m so proud of you. With that being said, LETS GO WOLVES.”
The Timberwolves finished the season at 49-33 and reached the Western Conference Finals, where they were eliminated in five games by the Thunder, now set to face the Pacers in the NBA Finals.
Randle averaged 21.7 points this postseason, surpassing the numbers he put up in two Knicks playoff runs (16.6 in 2022-23 and 18.0 in 2020-21).
The Knicks announced Tuesday they were parting ways with Thibodeau — three days after the team fell to the Pacers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals.
“Our organization is singularly focused on winning a championship for our fans. This pursuit led us to the difficult decision to inform Tom Thibodeau that we’ve decided to move in another direction,” Knicks president Leon Rose said in a statement.
Thibodeau had been at the helm for five seasons.
This year’s Eastern Conference Finals berth marked the Knicks’ first since 2000.
