Yaxel Lendeborg poured fuel on fire, awakened the beast in Luka Doncic

Yaxel Lendeborg, there are a few things you have to learn. Never take a charge from LeBron James.Never challenge Victor Wembanyama at the rim.

And never trash-talk Luka Dončić.The last sin is the worst.The consequences are worse than a bruise.

Or a swatted shot.Dončić punishes his perpetrators over and over again, leaving them mortified and stammering after games. Or at least, that’s how this usually goes. Lendeborg committed the last sin in the Lakers’ 127-105 win over the Warriors in their season opener on Wednesday. The Warriors’ rookie ran his mouth.

The Slovenian superstar ran him over.No biggie.

We’ve seen this play out so many times before. But what happened next was rare.The rookie didn’t show remorse.

Instead he doubled down.Here’s how it all happened.Things heated up after the rookie fouled Dončić on a pump fake with the Lakers up, 53-48, and less than 3 minutes left in the second quarter.

Dončić made two free throws.Lendeborg went to the bench. Doncic then made a 15-foot jumper and pointed at Lendeborg. Warriors coach Steve Kerr put him back in the game. They continued trash-talking each other. Lendeborg was assessed a technical foul with 22.2 seconds left.

Dončić then made a 49-foot shot with 1.4 seconds remaining and approached Lendeborg, chirping at him. Dončić did what he does. He feeds off of perceived disrespect.It fueled a 13-4 run for the Lakers in which Doncic scored 10 points. He finished with 28 points, eight rebounds, seven assists and three steals in 30 minutes and the highest plus-minus (+31) of anyone on the court in the Lakers’ 22-point rout. He had more than twice as many points as Lendeborg (12).Lendeborg poked the bear, like many have before.

(Just ask Matas Buzelis, who unleashed a 51-point performance from Doncic last March after chirping at him.His lesson? “Probably not to talk to him,” Buzelis said after the Bulls’ 142-130 loss to the Lakers.)But that’s where the script ch...