The 46-year-old community ambassador for the Denver Nuggets has also dropped nine slots — from sixth to 15th — on KU’s career rebounding charts over the past 23 years.

Not that anybody’s counting.

“I’d say when I was 10 years out, when Roy (Williams, former KU coach) was still sending me the media guide (every year), I’d open it up and look at that kind of stuff,” said Randall, a 6-foot-8, 235-pounder who played four years in the NBA.

“Of course you are curious as a Jayhawk player to see where you stand. I didn’t know my current stance. I’d not seen it in a while,” Randall added, speaking to the Journal-World after last week’s Cole Aldrich basketball camp in which he worked as a counselor.

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Randall, who still follows the Jayhawks’ fortunes closely — he was a regular attendee of KU-Colorado games in Boulder when the Buffs were members of the Big 12 — admits there’s only one stat that still intrigues him.

That’s field goal percentage.

“I know Tarik Black last year killed it from the floor. That’s the one I like. I track that one,” Randall said of shooting accuracy. Black in his one season at KU hit 69.2 percent of his shots. That’s better than Randall’s all-time single-season best mark of 64.6 percent in 1989.

Black will not officially pass Randall in the record book, however, because he hoisted just 107 shots. It takes 175 attempts to be considered for the record.

Randall had 311 attempts in ’89. He took 319 shots in 1991, a year he hit 64.3 percent from the field, which ranks second on KU’s all-time single-season list.

“It’s still about putting it in the hoop. I’m partial to the guy who puts it in the hoop,” Randall said. “Tarik’s percentage for the season will beat anybody there. Richard Scott was up there right after me.”

Scott, in fact, is third on KU’s single-season shooting list. He cashed 63.9 percent of his floor shots in 1992.

In addition to uncanny single-season marksmanship … Randall is KU’s most accurate shooter of all time.

Randall, who helped KU to a runner-up finish (to Duke) in the 1991 NCAA Tournament, hit 643 of 1,037 career shots for 62 percent. Scott ranks second at 59.6 percent.

It takes 500 attempts to be considered for that record.

“Run the floor and make layups. It’s not a tough thing,” Randall said. “I still get compliments every now and then for the way I was able to post up and hold the post and get the ball down low.”

Louisville’s Rick Pitino once said he’s never seen a better post player — inch for inch and pound for pound — than Randall.

“I have been called to clinics to teach that also. I’ve had former coaches say, ‘We have training tape of you and Richard Scott.’ Coaches of that nature actually showing our guys how to post up and hold the post is very flattering,” Randall said.

KU had a strong inside player this past season in Joel Embiid, a 7-footer from Cameroon who hit 107 of 171 shots for 62.6 percent. Embiid was selected No. 3 overall in the 2014 NBA Draft, two slots behind Andrew Wiggins.

“Obviously I’m excited for the KU kids. With Joel, there was concern with his foot,” Randall said. Embiid had surgery to repair a stress fracture in his right foot the week before the June 26 draft. A stress fracture in Embiid’s back kept him from playing in the Big 12 and NCAA Tournaments.

“From what I understand, that (navicular) bone is a tough one to get to. In asking around with my contacts around the league, nobody was really concerned about the back,” Randall said. “Usually with big guys you are worried about knees and backs. I heard he could slip down into the middle part of the first round, possibly later in the first round, just because you are talking guaranteed money to a guy who has the same (foot) fracture that Yao Ming had. What everybody forgets is (Michael) Jordan broke the same bone and came back fine.”

“Hopefully Joel gets the help with that, but with Wiggins going No. 1, from a KU perspective, obviously we haven’t had something like that in a long time. We haven’t had that many picks that high. I know everybody’s excited.”

Randall said he never had foot issues in college or the pros.

“I hurt everything else but my foot,” he said. “I had compartment syndrome toward the end of my last year. I had corrective jaw surgery. It’s why I sat out in ’88, the championship year (as red-shirt). That was my choice. I’m fortunate I didn’t have a whole lot of things go wrong. I was one of the fortunate big guys who didn’t have knee problems.”

Randall, who is from Englewood, Colorado — said he’s thoroughly enjoyed working for the Nuggets since 1999.

“I work in the community with young kids, speaking at schools. I play golf as part of my job. I say that with a little embarrassment. I’ve been told somebody’s got to do it,” Randall said with a smile.

“I’m an ‘in-game host’ on the microphone at every home game giving away stuff to the crowd. I do college basketball and every now and then do pre- and post-game show for the Nuggets on Altitude, our local sports entertainment network. Our team mascot is ‘Rocky.’ I do his scheduling. I spend a lot of time with him,” Randall explained.

Randall also is an elected member of the board of directors for the KU Alumni Association. He comes to Lawrence for meetings three times a school year.

“Most of the time I’m in Nuggets gear because that’s part of representing what I’m doing in the (Denver) community,” Randall said. “I’ve got KU stuff. I’m gonna throw it on. There’s more KU people in Denver. They keep popping up here and there. It’s a great, great thing.

“I’m not going to say it’s fading,” he added of people recognizing him in Lawrence, “but that’s how it works. When I come back to Kansas there’s still a lot of people who remember you and your past and it’s very humbling. It’s an honor, definitely for sure.”