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New York Knicks Julius Randle Out Rest Of Regular Season Likely Won't Help Miami Heat In Playoff Seedings Race

The Miami Heat are too far behind the New York Knicks to take advantage of Julius Randle injury
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New York Knicks Julius Randle Out Rest Of Regular Season Likely Won't Help Miami Heat In Playoff Seedings Race
New York Knicks Julius Randle Out Rest Of Regular Season Likely Won't Help Miami Heat In Playoff Seedings Race

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The New York Knicks will be without their leading scorer for the remainder of the regular season but it won't likely improve the Miami Heat's chances of moving up in the playoff seedings. 

The Knick announced forward Julius Randle will miss the final five games because of an ankle sprain.

“Injuries happen,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said, “and the thing that we have to understand is when you have a guy who’s averaging 25 points and 10 rebounds and five assists and doing the things that he’s doing, you’re not replacing him with an individual player."

A week ago, this news would have affected the Heat because they were in contention for the No. 5 seed. But after a three-game losing streak, the Heat are four games behind the Knicks. They only have slim hopes of catching the Brooklyn Nets, who are 1.5 games ahead for the No. 6 seed. 

The Heat are looking mostly at participating in the play-in tournament but they still have a chance of avoiding it. 

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SHANDEL RICHARDSON

Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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