Lakers: Julius Randle Left Off Rising Stars Challenge Roster

Two Lakers made it onto this year’s Rookie-Sophomore challenge, but Julius Randle was not among them

Lakers forward, Julius Randle’s year just got a little bit worse as he was left off of the Rising Stars Challenge roster while his teammates D’Angelo Russell and Jordan Clarkson got the nod.

This is partially due to the fact that instead of being the Rookie-Sophomore game as it has been in years past, the NBA has decided to follow a new format that they’ve been trying out, Team USA vs Team World.

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On one hand, it is great to see that the NBA has become diverse enough to house an entire team of rookie and sophomores from around the world.

On the other hand, it takes away from players who arguably would have made the roster if it were the regular Rookies vs Sophomores set up.

Julius Randle falls directly into this category.

This year has been extremely rough for Randle, from having no certainty in the amount of minutes he’d be getting on a nightly basis, to being demoted to the bench by Byron Scott, to Dirk Nowitzki hitting game winning buckets in his eye, this has not been Randle’s year.

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However, hopefully Randle uses this exclusion as fuel to prove his doubters wrong once again and get back on track post All-Star break.