There's absolutely no truth to this statement and I have no evidence of this but I believe when your first NBA bucket is a memorable one than you are going to have a great career. With that said, even if Julius Randle's first bucket wasn't a poster dunk on some guy named Jusuf Nurkic, I'm comfortable saying he's going to have a great career.

In his preseason debut, the Laker rookie had 10 points (5-9 fg) and 8 rebounds in 27 minutes. I'm also comfortable drafting Randle a round or two early in my fantasy leagues because I'm also betting he's going to be a dependable double double machine.

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