When Yaxel Lendeborg heard his name called at the Barclays Center on Tuesday night, he did not celebrate the way most 23-year-olds might.He broke down in tears and embraced his mother. Look how much it means to Yaxel He's a Golden State Warrior pic.twitter.com/kLuq1hkTkZ — ESPN (@espn) June 24, 2026“Every emotion possible,” Lendeborg told ESPN’s Lisa Salters immediately after the Warriors selected him No. 11 overall in the 2026 NBA Draft. “I don’t deserve to be here right now. I can’t believe it.”For anyone who knows Lendeborg’s story, those words made complete sense.His grades were so poor growing up that he was kept off his high school basketball team entirely — a low point that could have ended his basketball dreams before they ever began. Instead, his mother Yissel Raposo refused to let that happen. She pushed him back into the game, back into the classroom and back into believing he belonged.“That kid got here because of her,” Lendeborg said of his mother. “She pushed a dream, forced me to go out there and step into the world and become a man. I had no choice but to go out there...