{"id":281308,"date":"2026-05-06T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:50:10","slug":"minnesota-timberwolves-forward-julius-randle-is-building-his-familys-future-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/281308\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Timberwolves forward Julius Randle is building his family’s future in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Monday, Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> forward Julius Randle<\/a> scored a game-high 21 points to help stun NBA MVP candidate Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

The Frost Bank Center and its adjacent parking lots span about 65 acres of land in East San Antonio. Randle and his wife, Kendra, purchased a similarly sized plot in the Greater Dallas area last September in hopes of eventually building a family compound with several homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of players that have come to me and said, \u2018That\u2019s dope. Sixty acres. That is really cool,\u2019\u201d Randle, 31, told Andscape in March about his 60-acre land purchase. \u201cThey aren\u2019t making more land. That is what everybody says, especially in a place where I\u2019m from. I\u2019m able to do whatever I want, add more to it if I want to. I\u2019m looking for much more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is always going to be a premium on land. And the important thing for me is that I get it from understanding the area, understanding what\u2019s developing, understanding what is coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kendra Randle posted about the purchase for their \u201cdream home\u201d on her Instagram account on Jan. 13. Julius Randle said the ultimate plan is to build homes on that land for him and his wife, his mother, his mother-in-law, sister, and his three young children, Kyden, Jayce and Romi, with lots of trees. Julius is from Greater Dallas, and the Randles currently have an offseason home in McKinney, Texas.<\/p>\n

Kendra Randle told Andscape that the Randles hope to have a development plan on their land by the end of the summer that would be completed in 2 1\/2 years. Kendra also said on Instagram that it is \u201cwishful thinking but my plan\u201d for their children to build their own homes on the land one day.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially, the thought was being able to build a house that I would want to live in when I\u2019m done playing and have some land for my kids,\u201d Julius Randle said. \u201cI want to have a family compound-type thing. All our family lives in Dallas. We have everybody around each other. So, initially that was the idea, but we haven\u2019t really done anything yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it\u2019s kind of just like land bank. I\u2019m not in a rush to do anything. I kind of just want to see how the area grows. I\u2019m actually trying to buy some more over here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JuliusJulius Randle and his wife Kendra enjoy connecting with family and friends when home in McKinney, Texas, in the offseason.<\/p>\n

Michael Gonzales\/NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Julius Deion Randle was born Nov. 29, 1994, in Dallas. He and his sister, Nastassia Caldwell, were raised by their mother, Carolyn Kyles, a former basketball player at the University of Texas at Arlington. Julius Randle said it was \u201ctough\u201d growing up in \u201cdifferent places\u201d in apartments the first 10 years of his life. By the time he was 11, however, his mother moved the family to a home in McKinney, about 30 miles north of downtown Dallas.<\/p>\n

Randle attended Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano, Texas, before playing at the University of Kentucky, where he met his wife. Kendra Randle wrote on Instagram that she and Julius have talked and dreamed about buying a plot of land \u201csince we met & I\u2019m so grateful and excited to see our babies run around on this land.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Randles relish connecting with family and friends when home in McKinney in the offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time I was 11, my mom moved us out,\u201d Randle said. \u201cWe lived way out, about 45 minutes out in McKinney, where there was nothing. It was just straight land. It was an undeveloped area. It was great. We moved into our first house. I see how the area developed. That was dope about it. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily, I live there. I grew up there. So, I know the area and I know what\u2019s up-and-coming. I was able to get ahead of it. And then it\u2019s crazy because now in that area they just announced a whole 120-acre shopping center, hospital, everything. The [area] is building up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JuliusPlanning for the dream home is on the back burner for now, as Randle focuses on leading the Minnesota Timberwolves to their first NBA Finals appearance.<\/p>\n

Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Before the Randles return to their dream home plans, Julius Randle is focused on leading the Timberwolves to their third consecutive Western Conference finals and a first NBA Finals appearance.<\/p>\n

The Timberwolves and Spurs play Game 2 in San Antonio on Wednesday (ESPN, 9:30 p.m. ET). Winning another road game in San Antonio could play a big role in giving the underdog Timberwolves command of this series. Entering the 2026 playoffs, NBA teams that won the first two games of a best-of-seven playoff series on the road have won that series 86.8% of the time (33-5), according to the NBA.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is kind of a tone-setter for the series, especially being a road team,\u201d Randle said to reporters after the Game 1 win. \u201cTo come out the way we did, composed, playing good basketball, I feel like we got a lot out of it. Honestly, I feel like we can play a lot better with just our scrappiness, our heart, our hustle and just our will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc J. Spears is the senior NBA writer for Andscape. He used to be able to dunk on you, but he hasn\u2019t been able to in years and his knees still hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Monday, Minnesota Timberwolves forward Julius Randle scored a game-high 21…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-281308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}