Julius Randle needed a total of 17 words to answer 7 questions from the NY media

Julius Randle will face the New York Knicks for the first time since being traded to the Timberwolves on Thursday night, and the New York, Minnesota media did their best to get him talking Wednesday. But Randle wasn’t about to make any bulletin board material.

Randle only needed 17 words total to answer seven different questions from reporters. Here’s how the exchange went…

Media: How much do you try to treat it like any other game?

Randle: I will.

Media: How?

Randle: Play basketball.

Media: It has to mean something, I mean you were the face of the franchise.

Randle: Another game.

Media: When you played the Lakers, it was more than another game.

Randle: Right.

Media: What is the difference there?

Randle: I am 30 years old.

Media: Did the preseason game against the Knicks help this at all?

Randle: I didn’t play.

Media: You were there, but being around it like that, the team…

Randle: I didn’t play.

Finally, when the eighth question came – What is his secret to making this game like any other? – Randle provided some depth in his answer.

“What’s my secret? I’m going to go home, play with my kids, eat some food, I’ll probably watch a show. “Landman.” Have you heard of it. Great show, and I’m going to wake up in the morning. And then I’m going to go home and eat breakfast and take a nap and then I’m going to the arena and play the game.”

Amazing.

Incidentally, “Landman” stars Billy Bob Thornton and is on Paramount+. It currently gets a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sounds like a cool show about people trying to get rich off oil back in the early 1900s.