This is a major blow for a guy whose dream was to be always become a Laker. After breaking his leg during his rookie debut, the Lakers expect Julius Randle to miss his entire rookie season with a fractured tibia.
Randle’s surgery was performed by Dr. Donald Wiss at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Lakers announced.
“I didn’t get a whole lot of sleep just thinking about the young fella,” Lakers coach Byron Scott said Wednesday before facing the Suns. “(I was) talking to him after the game, basically just holding him and listening to him cry and trying to console him as much as possible. It’s a tough situation.
“(The) young man obviously has a promising future. We’re going to miss him for a little while, but we have to regroup. We have to basically move on, as crazy as it sounds. We have to move on.”
Randle was the Lakers first first-round pick in the last seven-years.