Kentucky's NBA Dream Scuttled as Lendeborg Flows to Michigan
Yaxel Lendeborg has made more money than he ever dreamed was possible entering March Madness, allowing him to pay his mother's bills and buy her a new ride. Michigan's 6-foot-9, 240-pound point forward was the top prospect in the transfer portal last year and Kentucky was prepared to make him the highest-paid player in college basketball. “They started the number with $7 to 9 (million),” Lendeborg said in an interview with The Associated Press.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Yaxel Lendeborg has made more money than he ever dreamed was possible entering March Madness , allowing him to pay his mother's bills and buy her a new ride. Lendeborg, though, could be even richer.
Michigan's 6-foot-9, 240-pound point forward was the top prospect in the transfer portal last year and Kentucky was prepared to make him the highest-paid player in college basketball. “They started the number with $7 to 9 (million),” Lendeborg said in an interview with The Associated Press. “They were pretty much going off on the route like we’ll pay him anything to get here.
” Instead, he chose to play for Dusty May and the Wolverines even though the former UAB star said he would have earned about three times more money if he suited up for Mark Pope and the Wildcats. “I was raised without it and I went my my whole life without it,” Lendeborg said. “Anything was going to make me super, super happy at the time.
"I was thinking long term. What if I mess up my career because I chased the money instead of a future? Another big reason why I went with Dusty was he didn't talk about money at all.
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