{"id":213766,"date":"2021-05-04T22:27:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=213766"},"modified":"2021-05-04T22:27:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:27:31","slug":"stephen-curry-julius-randle-named-nba-players-of-the-month-for-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/stephen-curry-julius-randle-named-nba-players-of-the-month-for-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry, Julius Randle named NBA Players of the Month for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and New York Knicks forward Julius Randle have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Player of the Month, respectively, for April.<br \/>\nCurry averaged a league-high 37.3 points on 51.8% shooting from the field, 46.6% shooting from deep and 90.8% from the free throw line in April.<br \/>\nRandle was a nightly supplier of 27.1 points, 9.0 rebounds and 6.3 assists in April, leading New York to the best Eastern Conference record (11-4) throughout the course of the month and earning his first POTM award.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Kia NBA Players of the Month for April! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KiaPOTM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KiaPOTM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>West: Stephen Curry (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@warriors<\/a>)<br \/>East: Julius Randle (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nyknicks<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AF4Xz15hJx\">pic.twitter.com\/AF4Xz15hJx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1389672352842141700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2b50\ufe0f Most threes ever made in a single month<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f First player in NBA history to average 35 points and shoot 50-40-90 during a calendar month<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f Most 30+ point games ever in the month of April<\/p>\n<p>Your Western Conference Player of the Month &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenCurry30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephenCurry30<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7QaskRcyYI\">pic.twitter.com\/7QaskRcyYI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Golden State Warriors (@warriors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriors\/status\/1389673754356191235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s just work.<\/p>\n<p>The April 2021, Eastern Conference Player of the Month, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J30_RANDLE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@J30_RANDLE<\/a> \u2b50\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PEqcv128xP\">pic.twitter.com\/PEqcv128xP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nyknicks\/status\/1389673686148468739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randle is the first Knicks player to win the award since Carmelo Anthony in Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":213767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[730,5984,1016,854],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-213766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-golden-state-warriors-en","tag-julius-randle-en","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-stephen-curry-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/05\/E0kcJGOXMAEHz43.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213766"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=213766"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=213766"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=213766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}