Julius Randle is hyped to play on Christmas Day, but it’s not because he’ll face the Atlanta Hawks, the team that foiled him and his New York Knicks in last season’s NBA playoffs.
For Randle, it means much bigger than who is their opponent.
“Playing in the Christmas game is always an honor. Those are big games that you want to be a part of. Those are definitely the games that the NBA highlights. The fact that you have a Christmas game is a huge honor,” Randle said on The Jump on Wednesday.