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Los Angeles Lakers center Walker Kessler, right, shoots as Golden State Warriors forward Yaxel Lendeborg defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, in Los Angeles.
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Yaxel Lendeborg has only played one NBA game, and he’s already started a feisty feud with Luka Doncic. The Golden State Warriors rookie began his career by refusing to back down from the reigning NBA scoring champion, who punctuated their prolonged on-court exchange of trash talk by making a spectacular half-court shot in Lendeborg’s face at the halftime buzzer. Even after the Warriors were blown out by the Los Angeles Lakers, Lendeborg called out the six-time All-Star as a complainer and a free-throw merchant during his postgame news conference.
