Julius Randle's All-Star Transformation
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🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Last season, Julius Randle was arguably the Knicks' most despised player. Last week, fans gave him a standing ovation and chanted "MVP" at Madison Square Garden. The Athletic's Mike Vorkuov, who covers the Knicks, walks us through his remarkable journey from Lakers castoff to Knicks underachiever to NBA All-Star -- and explains how a new off-season training program helped him take his game to the next level.
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| 0:38.4 | place in the Eastern Conference, and a very big reason for that is the play of newly-minted |
| 0:44.2 | All Star Julius Randall. |
| 0:58.8 | Today, the Athletics Mike Borkinov on how Randall rebuilt his body and his game to get his |
| 1:03.8 | first ever All Star selection, and why his great play could be here to stay. |
| 1:09.0 | I think it would be easy to say, you know, maybe Julius Randall turns back into a pumpkin |
| 1:13.0 | or something like that, but I think this is sustainable. |
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| 1:23.1 | Well, so Mike, we want to talk about this pretty remarkable turnaround that Julius Randall |
| 1:30.0 | has had this season. |
| 1:31.6 | So first, can you give us a quick snapshot of what this guy had been through before he came |
| 1:36.5 | to New York? |
| 1:38.1 | Julius Randall had an in-off spissious beginning to his NBA career, his seventh overall pick, |
| 1:43.2 | coming out of Kentucky. |
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