BOX SCORESAN FRANCISCO – All the confetti and remnants of a championship celebration were gone. As the Bay Area continues to celebrate the WNBA champion Valkyries, there was another game to be played Saturday night at Chase Center.
The Warriors welcomed the Los Angeles Clippers but were shorthanded without Steph Curry and Draymond Green on the first night of a back-to-back. Their absence didn’t matter because the Warriors have Yaxel Lendeborg, and the Clippers don’t. Yaxel told Steph he can have the night off pic.twitter.com/kFzHFDVxjP
— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) November 2, 2026 How did Lendeborg come back from his stinker of a game against the Los Angeles Lakers? His answer was leading the Warriors to a 124-112 win over the Clippers with a game-high 37 points on 13-of-19 shooting, going 6 of 11 from 3-point range and also adding four rebounds and six assists.
Lendeborg played 112 college games at the Division-I level between UAB and Michigan, and had one 30-point game. Through his first seven NBA games, he already has two such games.
Here are three takeaways from the...