Knicks All-Star Julius Randle Speaks on Mavs' Luka Doncic: 'He's My Favorite Player!'
One cool thing about NBA All-Star Weekend is that it offers a unique chance to hear a handful of stars talk about their admiration for one another.
On Saturday, New York Knicks two-time All-Star Julius Randle praised Dallas Mavericks MVP candidate Luka Doncic and even went as far as calling him his "favorite player" when asked who he'd select with the first pick in the All-Star draft.
"Oh, [an All-Star] captain? Who would be my first pick? ... I might pick Luka," Randle said. "He's my favorite player. To watch just how he plays, man. His skill, you can't speed him up. He's a great player."
Randle, who is a Dallas native, normally gives his hometown team the business when he plays against them, but this season, his Knicks went 0-2 against the Mavs. That two-game season series included the game where Doncic went off for a career-high 60 points to go along with 21 rebounds and 10 assists in a miraculous 126-121 overtime win for Dallas.
Since then, the Mavs have become more of a threat to the rest of the league as they traded for Kyrie Irving nearly two weeks ago. Randle got straight to the point when asked how he felt about the newly-formed dynamic duo in Dallas.
"I think it'll work out great, me personally," Randle said.
Randle's Knicks teammate, Jalen Brunson, who left the Mavs in free agency last summer, was snubbed from being a first-time All-Star this season despite having a career year in New York. One has to wonder if Randle would've picked Brunson instead of Doncic with his hypothetical All-Star first pick if he was in Salt Lake City.
As a certain controversial rapper/producer famously said at the 2005 Grammys, "I guess we'll never know."
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