Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg lost all respect for Luka Doncic

LOS ANGELES — Matched up with Luka Doncic, Yaxel Lendeborg, the Warriors’ bold and brash rookie, came away with at least one lesson from his NBA debut.“Being in there firsthand, just watching all the whining and complaining, I lost all respect, man,” Lendeborg said after Golden State’s 127-105 season-opening loss to the Lakers.“That was awful.”The most entertaining part of a blowout loss for the Warriors was undoubtedly Lendeborg’s ongoing back-and-forth with the Lakers’ equally loud-mouthed superstar.Lendeborg finished with 12 points, four personal fouls and one technical in 29 minutes.He often drew the defensive matchup with Doncic, who went off for a game-high 28 with nine free throws.But Lendeborg’s biggest takeaway was all Doncic’s extracurriculars that came after the whistle.“Like, me getting frustrated, it’s not about the foul getting called.

It’s about him complaining the entire game,” Lendeborg said.“Then you get the foul called — congratulations, bro — and you talk to me like you did something great? That’s just weak.

It kind of threw me off for a while.Because like I said, I had so much respect for him.

Gone, man.”Though Doncic only made it to the line nine times, Lendeborg said it felt like 30.Doncic mostly only ran his mouth on the court, merely saying afterward that the No.11 overall pick was “talking like crazy.” Lendeborg, on the other hand, was happy to get into the nitty gritty.“I said a couple cuss words,” Lendeborg said.

“That’s why I got the technical.But I was letting him know, because he was laughing and talking all this because of one foul call.”Lendeborg bit on one of Doncic’s pump fakes midway through the first half, and the two were off and running — their mouths, anyway.

Doncic pointed and laughed.Lendeborg responded.At one point, Lendeborg started putting both his hands behind his back when guarding Doncic.“I tried my best,” he said.

“I still got called.”The back-and...