Name: Mark Randall

Claim to Fame, Minnesota: he was born in Edina! He’s one of us! Also played a bit for the T’wolves in the early ‘90s before being traded to Detroit along with Gerald Glass for the immortal Brad Sellers, the immortal-er Lance Blanks, and a draft pick.

Claim to Fame, Everywhere Else: led the Kansas Jayhawks to the Final Four in 1991. Made the cover of SI and everything. They eventually lost to the Duke Blue Devils in the title game, which doesn’t make Duke stink any less. He would go on to the prototypical journeyman career, with stops in La Crosse, Rapid City, Fort Wayne, and Milan, Italy.

Where They Are Now: as the journeyman link above notes, he caught on with the Denver Nuggets staff. He’s currently a community ambassador for the franchise and runs a summer basketball camp in the Denver area. Also, he likes Grey’s Anatomy and Peter Forsberg.

Glorious Randomness: if the only time you’ve been in Minnesota is when you drove through it with your parents when you were a 3-year-old, WCCO Radio will issue you a laminated “One of Us!” card should you become famous later in life. This valuable card entitles you to a 5% discount at all metro area Lunds and Byerly’s stores, one free appetizer at Murray’s, and a built-to-scale model of Dark Star’s studio crafted entirely from toothpicks, gum, and Don Shelby’s tears. This card can and will be rescinded if your child is a prep football or basketball star and does not attend the University of Minnesota.

*Thanks to RandBall reader Michael Rand for passing along the Randall suggestion from whoever it was that sent it in the first place. [Proprietor note: it was Ramon.]

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