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EDINA, Minn. — A white Range Rover pulls up to the curb next to a sprawling park in the Minneapolis suburbs. Julius Randle steps out and uncoils his 6-foot-9 frame toward the sky, like a giant oak tree with leaves stretching to get as close as possible to the mid-September sun’s nourishing energy.

Randle looks up and squints, smiling in a black, sleeveless Timberwolves shirt that offers a little bit of a breather on an unseasonable 95-degree day. This is Dallas weather.

“This feels like home,” he says.

In more ways than one.

Just over two weeks from training camp, Randle has not come here to get in a workout as he prepares for his

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