Defend the Block 314 - Yaxel Lendeborg

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Michigan, College, Sports, Ncaa, Jon Jansen, Wolverines, Football

4.8 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On a special Thursday edition of Defend the Block, Brian Boesch visits with one of the newest members of the men's basketball program - UAB transfer Yaxel Lendeborg. Lendeborg details his transfer portal and NBA Draft processes, recounts his unique journey to this point of his career, and describes his game on the floor and fit with the program.

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0:49.8	Yaxel Lenderborg is different. And that's not just as a basketball player, where he is different.
0:56.7	He was the top portal prospect of the country or and or a potential first round pick in the NBA draft.
1:04.5	He ultimately elected to come to Michigan. But Yaxel's also different because his journey to this lofty spot in the basketball world was truly unfathomable just a handful of years ago.
1:17.3	I always gravitate towards success stories where the protagonist doesn't see the potential at first, the upside at first, because I experienced that in my career. Growing up, I was a shy kid
1:30.7	who didn't have much of an idea of what I wanted to do in my career. And my dad forced me to take
1:35.6	a journalism class in eighth grade. That sparked my interest in writing and more specifically
1:40.7	sports writing. And then my shyness really prevented me from ever even considering broadcasting.
1:46.6	That is until I talked to my foremost college professor mentor and someone I still consider
1:53.3	a good friend, the great Tom Hotson.
1:55.9	He saw me one freshman year day and saw something in me that I didn't see in myself encouraged me to try
2:01.9	broadcasting and well here I am forcing is a verb that certainly could describe Yaxel's story
2:08.9	going from just a video gamer and a typical high school kid to where he is now.
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