{"id":792553,"date":"2026-07-30T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:14:11","slug":"warriors-fan-surveys-how-many-minutes-will-rookie-yaxel-lendeborg-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/792553\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors fan surveys: How many minutes will rookie Yaxel Lendeborg get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Golden State fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/8SCRL8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Golden State Warriors, to the surprise of nobody, drafted arguably the most NBA-ready player in the 2026 NBA Draft, forward Yaxel Lendeborg. The versatile two-way forward, who was drafted 11th overall, spent six total years playing college ball: three in community college, two at Alabama-Birmingham, and one at Michigan, where he won a national title this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Lendeborg will turn 24 before the start of the season, making him very old by rookie standards. The flip side to that, of course, is that he should be ready to contribute from Day 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Which is good, because the Warriors need contributions. They missed out on LeBron James, and have yet to add any players from outside the organization (other than through the draft). On top of that, barring any additional trades, they\u2019ll be without Moses Moody and Jimmy Butler III for the first half of the season. Which means the door is wide open for Lendeborg to get a lot of playing time right out of the gates. But will he? How much playing time do you think the Warriors will give him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[307475,355,99],"class_list":["post-792553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-golden-state-warriors-discussion","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}