Warriors Yaxel Lendeborg makes stunning wet the bed admission after crushing Nuggets

DENVER — It’s been easy to forget at times in his first four NBA games that it wasn’t too long ago Yaxel Lendeborg was just another guy on a basketball team at a junior college in the middle of the desert, five hours from anywhere.Like, not even four years ago.One person it hasn’t been lost on, despite his outspokenness, is Lendeborg.The Warriors rookie’s willingness to say whatever is on his mind, on the court or in press conferences, has already earned him a certain reputation.

But it has also resulted in an endless stream of soundbites, some of which offer some actual insight.For example, Lendeborg didn’t hold back on Peacock after the Warriors’ 134-114 win over the Nuggets on Monday night.He led the way with 31 points, 12 rebounds and six assists, the best performance in a historic start to his career — but not even he saw this coming.“I definitely thought I was gonna wet the bed,” Lendeborg said.

“Definitely didn’t have the best hopes for what I was gonna do.”While that’s the open book we’ve come to know, it doesn’t exactly express the kind of confidence that would lead a 24-year-old rookie to chirp back-and-forth with Luka Doncic.It sounds like the rookie who took six tepid shots in his first preseason game — a little more than three weeks ago, that’s where Lendeborg was.Inside a 10,000-capacity gym in Honolulu, he made one shot and finished with four points in an exhibition loss to the Clippers.What happened afterward might have changed the course of Warriors history.“After the game in Hawaii, where I think I had like three points and only took like three shots,” Lendeborg said, undercounting on both, he approached Steph Curry and Draymond Green. “I asked them, you know, just for some guidance and advice.

They told me, just try to be confident, be aggressive and play through the mistakes.I’m gonna be in a position to do that.

Just hearing that from those two guys, I was coming into the game timid, like I don�...