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Yaxel Lendeborg, the top transfer portal player, chose Michigan over Kentucky's $7-9 million offer, prioritizing development.
Rivals to Michigan basketball like to claim that Michigan basketball's roster this year is part and parcel of transfer portal spending run amok ( even if this report proves that to be untrue -- though this is of operational budgets). But the most notable, and likely most expensive player, on the Wolverines reportedly didn't cost as much as many might think. Yaxel Lendeborg was the No.
1 player in the transfer portal, and every team wanted him, even if he had appeared to be leaning toward the NBA last offseason. However, he ended up choosing Dusty May and the maize and blue above all other options. And according to AP's Larry Lage, that also meant turning down a much more lucrative offer from Kentucky .
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 thinking long term.