It’s been a strange NBA journey for Julius Randle. Ever since he suffered a season-ending injury in the first game of his career, his trajectory has been unpredictable.

In 2020-21, it appeared to be trending upwards. Randle was awarded the league’s Most Improved Player award. A season later, everything changed for the worse.

Randle’s three-point accuracy plummeted. He shot 41.1% from distance in 2020-21, and 30.8% a year later. Without indulging in a deep statistical dive, we wouldn’t be shocked if that was one of the biggest drops in league history.

Now, his future with the New York Knicks is unclear. They inked him to a contract worth $26.1 million annually. If last year’s production becomes Randle’s new norm, it was an overpay. If the Knicks shop him this summer, it shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone.

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Furthermore, if he ends up back on the team he started with, the Los Angeles Lakers, that shouldn’t either. It’d be an appropriately strange development in his strange career.

Here are three deals that make it happen.