NEW YORK — How will Julius Randle fit with Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards and a roster hoping to one-up last season’s trip to the Western Conference finals?

Seamlessly, says Wolves coach Chris Finch.

The Knicks traded Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to the Timberwolves in exchange for Karl-Anthony Towns, and Finch said Randle, a three-time All-Star, will make his Wolves debut in Chicago against the Bulls on Wednesday.

Randle, who did not play against the Knicks in Sunday’s exhibition matchup at Madison Square Garden, said he’s ready to play after recovering from shoulder surgery and is not expecting any significant minutes limits.

“You know where I’m coming from [playing in New York],” Randle said with a laugh on Tuesday. “I’m ready for whatever. That’s how I prepared all summer, so whatever Finch needs, I’m gonna give it to him.”

Randle said he’s lost about 10 pounds since the basketball world last saw him in the Knicks’ Jan. 27 matchup against the Miami Heat, and says Jaime Jaquez Jr.’s blocking foul — which resulted in the shoulder injury — won’t deter him from attacking the rim going forward.

“I really just think it was a freak play. It was a blocking foul. He just kinda took me out,” he said before a reporter asked if he’d be reluctant driving to the rim this season. “Nah, hell nah. I’m gonna attack the basket as long as I can.”

This means the Timberwolves will finally get their first look at the new duo of Edwards and Randle, and prior to his season-ending shoulder injury, Randle averaged 24 points, nine rebounds and five assists last season for the Knicks.

Edwards simultaneously blossomed into a superstar, averaging 25.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game before helping Team USA claim gold in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Finch believes Randle can slide right into Towns’ role on offense.

“We see [Julius] as a pretty seamless fit. We love his physicality, his playmaking, his ability to create a lot of open threes for his teammates. We need to get more of those in general,” Finch said after the team’s practice at Baruch College Tuesday afternoon. “We haven’t really featured him too much in our offense yet, but that’s something we know we can do on the block, on the elbow, free-throw line or in space, iso-situation. Those are pretty good options right there.

“He can handle the pick-and-roll. We like to do that with our bigs. KAT did a lot of that with Rudy, so it gives us continuity there. So we see a lot of good synergy.”

For Finch, the deal was a blast from the past.

He was an assistant coach on Alvin Gentry’s New Orleans Pelicans staff during the 2018-19 season, Randle’s lone year in The Big Easy.

Randle then left and signed a deal with the Knicks, while Finch spent one more season in New Orleans before joining the Toronto Raptors staff, then ultimately taking the Timberwolves head coaching job midway through the 2020-21 season.

“Finch, up until that point, gave me the most freedom I ever had in my career,” Randle said on Tuesday. “So I was really just playing to my natural abilities and being put in positions, how I’ve always learned and grew to play the game of basketball and making the right play. They just kind of opened up my scoring even more because I was given so many opportunities.”

Finch hopes he and Randle can recreate their magic from the past and help elevate Minnesota to a title.

“The first thing I saw when he came to New Orleans was his playmaking: He can make any pass on the floor at any given time,” Finch recalled on Tuesday. “His ability to get to the paint, draw multiple guys, create offense for others. You know, a lot of young players that come to the league, they’re fixated on scoring. A lot of these guys grew up as scorers, and that’s what they do and want to do first and foremost, but we play so much through our bigs, and I think that gave him the confidence that he can make plays and score because he was always gonna touch the ball. It’s similar to this day. We still have a lot of those same concepts.”

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