SAN FRANCISCO – Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg has seen your tweets. He has seen the reactions online, by TV show hosts and on the radio waves about him trash-talking Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doni during and after the Warriors’ 22-point loss to open the 2026-27 NBA season on Wednesday night. He, quite literally, couldn’t care less.
Lendeborg kept the quotes flying in the Warriors’ locker room after their loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday night at Chase Center.
“What the heck? I ain’t never been no h-e,” Lendeborg said. “Like, c’mon now. He’s gonna say what he wants to say, I’m gonna say what I want to say. I’m not afraid to talk to nobody, man. He’s not Michael Jordan. C’mon now.
“It’s fun trash-talk. I feel like I did kind of take it overboard in the media, but it is what it is.”
Lendeborg said Wednesday night in LA that he “lost all respect” for Doni because of the way he flops and complains to refs. The two jawed at each other from the jump, only for it to escalate during the second quarter. Lendeborg was...