LAS VEGAS – Once again, Yaxel Lendeborg got the best of a former Michigan teammate in his second game during the Las Vegas NBA Summer League. After beating Morez Johnson and the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday, Lendeborg got bragging rights with the Warriors’ 104-79 win over Aday Mara and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday at the Thomas & Mack Center on UNLV’s campus.
Lendeborg scored a game-high 14 points, and also had two rebounds, four assists and three steals as a plus-14. Mara scored 10 points and added nine rebounds as a minus-8.
The Warriors improved to 2-0 in Las Vegas and 4-1 overall this summer. Sunday’s win was far from beautiful basketball, though.
On paper, the Warriors won in nearly every category. They shot 44.2 percent from the field, just better than the Thunder’s 44.1 percent while taking nine more shots than OKC and making four more. The Warriors went 15 of 41 from 3-point range (36.6 percent), which was much better than the Thunder going 8 of 30 (26.7 percent).
The Warriors also tallied 19 more rebounds than the Thunder (45 to 26), six more assists...