Michigan Basketball Insider: Dusty May's biggest flex yet - Yaxel Lendeborg chooses UM over the NBA!

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode of The Michigan Basketball Insider, Sam Webb and Tim McCormick react to the no. 1 player in the transfer portal, former UAB forward Yaxel Lendeborg choosing Michigan over the NBA despite projections as a late first round draft pick. The conversation highlighted Linderborg's potential, emphasized Dusty May's successful recruiting strategy, Michigan's depth, and it's prime contention with Purdue for the Big Ten title, the Final Four, and much much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And welcome, folks, to a live edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider with some great news,
0:17.2	some news that I think was unexpected for a great many of you. I think the optimistic Michigan
0:24.8	basketball fans maybe started to feel like this was a possibility around the time of an
0:32.4	official visit for one, Mr. Yaxel Linderbord when he started to talk about, yeah, I'm starting to feel
0:39.5	of this college thing. I'm starting to feel about Michigan as more of a possibility of doing
0:45.9	this college thing. And even around the combine, where he started to talk about a 50-50,
0:51.7	even a 60-40 possibility about the University of Michigan.
0:57.3	And then yesterday, the news broke that Yaxel Linderbord is coming to University of Michigan.
1:03.9	To break down, this big time news is my man, my guy, the big fella, the man who was an all-American out of Clarkston, Michigan,
1:14.9	a big-time ball player in his own right at the University of Michigan, a first round draft
1:21.7	picked in 1984, 10 years in the NBA.
1:26.2	And after his days roaming the hardwood
1:29.5	in the National Basketball Association,
1:32.2	he went on to be one of the best broadcasters in the land,
1:37.7	both pro and college.
1:40.6	He's still doing his thing.
1:42.1	And then, of course, he's doing his thing right here on the
1:45.5	Michigan Basketball Insider. I call him my big fella Timmy Mack. You know him. It's Tim McCormick. Tim,
1:51.7	how you doing? Fantastic. You know, I was, I was thinking back to the day when Chris Weber
1:58.0	signed with Michigan. I know you remember it well, Joanne Howard. There have been some great players, Glenn Rice. But, you know, this one
2:06.2	gets me really excited because I didn't expect it at all of massive significance for next year
2:14.2	and beyond. And I've studied Yaxel's game.
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