Follow the wave of farewells at Real Madrid. After the confirmed losses of Adam Hanga and Nigel Williams-Goss, in the perimeter positions, and Petr Cornelie in the inside game, the white entity confirmed that Anthony Randolph will no longer wear white after seven seasons, 12 titles, being one of the best ‘4’ on the continent and ending up marked by serious injuries. Like the one that lasted a good part of his last season at Goya and that precipitated his non-renewal.
Randolph arrived at Madrid as one of the best projects, due to physique (2.11 meters and 104 kilograms) and throwing capacity, from the continent in a fight for his signing in which Barcelona was also present. In the capital, his career lived the best moments under Pablo Laso’s board, managing to be vital due to his intensity on both sides of the pitch. To remember, that block against Dorsey in a Euroleague match against Barcelona. “It was a very plastic play and it happened as it was a game circumstance, we shouldn’t give it much more importance,” he said.
Randolph was always present in the white rotation and in the pools of being the main options in attack, but he did not end up being the team leader. His best averages came in his second season, with 10.3 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. The enemy was always injuries.
Especially, two almost consecutive. In December 2020, the Achilles tendon ruptured against Olympiacos in the Peace and Friendship Pavilion. He returned almost a year later, but 351 days later misfortune struck again. In the middle of the first match of the final of the ACB 2021-22 at the Palau Blaugrana against Barcelona was injured after a complete tear of the cruciate ligament. Another course out.
I was not the same again. He would return for the last months of the course and even played many minutes as a pivot after the discomfort and problems of Tavares and Poirier. But I did not recover the level. The last white title, that of the Euroleague against Olympiacos, closes his white stage. “He is one of the best of my life,” he acknowledged. After seven courses closes a stage. The ‘4’ of Madrid remains focused between Gaby Deck, Mario Hezonja and Eli Ndiaye.
