{"id":1619,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1619","headline":"Lendeborg flops in Doncic rematch, Warriors bail him out anyway","dek":"The rookie who talked trash to Luka Doncic on opening night had what he called the worst game of his life, but Golden State still beat the Lakers.","body":"The chants started almost immediately. \"Lu-ka sucks\" echoed through Chase Center every time Doncic touched the ball, a direct line back to the spat between the Lakers star and Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg on opening night, October 21. Lendeborg had said beforehand he was \"absolutely\" looking forward to the rematch.\n\nIt did not go the way he hoped. Lendeborg called it the worst game of his life, which for a player six games into his NBA career is saying something. Doncic, cast as the villain by the Chase Center crowd, made sure the boos should have been pointed the other way.\n\nDespite their rookie getting pulverized by the matchup, the Warriors found a way to win anyway, pulling off a comeback victory over the Lakers. The result mattered more than Lendeborg's line, but his admission afterward made clear he knew exactly how badly the individual battle had gone. Doncic got his lesson delivered. Golden State got the result.","published_at":"2026-10-31T23:05:12.791291+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Yaxel Lendeborg admits he ‘wet the bed’ against Luka Doncic","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/yaxel-lendeborg-admits-wet-bed-171553207.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Yaxel Lendeborg admits he ‘wet the bed’ against Luka Doncic","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/31/sports/warriors-yaxel-lendeborg-luka-doncic-lakers/"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Luka Dončić teaches Yaxel Lendeborg a lesson, but Warriors bail their rookie out in comeback win over Lakers","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/luka-doncic-yaxel-lendeborg-warriors-comeback-win-lakers/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Lakers’ Luka Doncic immediately goes after Yaxel Lendeborg in Golden State rematch","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lakers-luka-doncic-immediately-goes-041834025.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Lakers fans clown Yaxel Lendeborg after dominant Luka Doncic performance","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lakers-fans-clown-yaxel-lendeborg-064114686.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"'I was on the bench': Yaxel Lendeborg says how he really felt after Steph Curry dropped Luka Doncic","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bench-yaxel-lendeborg-says-really-111500198.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/1c16243a005b52eb2e9d16ed2cc500af645203214cab62bbfa0f46826fa3464a/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w1200_h675%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fny_post_sports_articles_389%2F252317a9ecb8ddb8f9dd5e813ef7d3a1.jpg","credit":"Yahoo Sports","width":1200},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}