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Yaxel Lendeborg won his second ring in four months Sunday, leading the Golden State Warriors past the Memphis Grizzlies 94-90 in the NBA summer league championship game at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center. Lendeborg, who starred for the University of Michigan's NCAA title team last season, finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds to outduel Cameron Boozer in an intense showdown of 2026 lottery picks. He became just the second player to win a Division I NCAA championship and a Vegas summer league title in the same year, joining Davion Mitchell. "Coming into this program, I just wanted to prove that I'm a winner," said Lendeborg, the 11th pick in last month's draft. "Doing stuff like this -- not caring about the stats and just caring about the outcome. I'm going to continue to push that into next season with the bigger Warriors. ... At Michigan, we played team ball. Here, we play team ball. That's what wins games and championships."
Dusty May left Michigan after two seasons and a national championship for the NBA, in part, because of the uncertainties of NIL support and the transfer portal, Michigan president Domenico Grasso said Thursday at the university’s Regents meeting. Grasso addressed the Board of Regents and those gathered at the meeting after budgets were presented by various departments.
The Dallas Mavericks today announced the appointment of Dusty May as the franchise's new head coach. May joins the Mavericks after leading the University of Michigan to the 2026 NCAA National Championship. Widely regarded as one of the sport's premier program builders and player developers, May has earned a reputation for creating winning cultures, maximizing talent, and leading teams to sustained success.
He's already won a national championship. Now, former University of Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg has something nearly as cool: his own personalized Chipotle bowl. For a limited time, Chipotle is offering the Yaxel Lendeborg Bowl, exclusively on the Chipotle app and Chipotle.com. It includes double steak, white rice, black beans, Queso Blanco, cheese and lettuce.
Dusty May — University of Michigan May recently signed an extension with the University of Michigan, which might take him out of the conversation for any potential NBA openings, but a few observers told The Athletic that the 49-year-old head coach might have the coaching acumen to successfully adjust to working at the next level. May led Florida Atlantic University to a Final Four in 2023 before taking over at the University of Michigan, where he just won the national championship.
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The Hamtramck community honored basketball legend Rudy Tomjanovich during a hall of fame celebration that included renaming the high school basketball court in his honor. Tomjanovich, a Hamtramck native and high school graduate, played college basketball at the University of Michigan before joining the NBA and playing for the Houston Rockets.
Dave McMenamin: The South Bay Lakers plan to acquire former Atlanta Hawks guard Kobe Bufkin, sources told ESPN. Bufkin was the No. 15 pick in the 2023 draft out of the University of Michigan. Bufkin was traded from ATL to BKN and entered the G League pool after being waived last month.
Shams Charania: Yaxel Lenderborg, a projected first round pick, will withdraw his name from the 2025 NBA draft and spend his final season in college at the University of Michigan, he told me and @DraftExpress . Agents Qais Haider, Ron Shade and Alex Saratsis informed the program Tuesday.
“It doesn’t ever die,” Joey Skinn, the manager at ABC Vintage, said. “(Vintage clothing) is the one thing in fashion that never goes out of style.” At any given time inside the establishment, which is co-owned by Aaron Cohen and Mike Pang, you’ll find forgotten, lost and unique clothing from Detroit’s four major professional sports teams, as well as the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, other sports teams, musical artists and movies. Every “sports piece,” as vintage heads like to call the clothing, was birthed in the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s or early 2000s by well-known apparel companies like Chalk Line or Starter and by fashion designers like Jeff Hamilton. Others are “bootlegs” from those periods — pieces of clothing, often illegally using sports team logos or variations of them, created by civilians and sold out of the trunks of cars or hung on nearby fences during big sporting events in the city.
Former Lakers and Clippers guard Darius Morris died at age 33 of coronary artery disease, although the “effects of cocaine, hydrocodone and ethanol” played a role, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner. Morris, who played for the Lakers alongside his mentor Kobe Bryant after starring at Windward High in Mar Vista and the University of Michigan, was found dead May 2 by a Los Angeles-area apartment manager doing a welfare check.
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Adrian Wojnarowski: ESPN Sources: Michigan coach Juwan Howard recently declined a Los Angeles Lakers overture on the franchise’s head coaching job. Howard is coaching his two sons — Jace and Jett — in Ann Arbor.
NBA Hall of Famer Chris Webber’s memoir By God’s Grace is being developed into a TV series by Picturestart ahead of the book’s release November 15. The project is currently being shopped to networks and streamers. The adaptation focuses on Webber’s youth and journey as part of the University of Michigan’s famed “Fab Five.” From amateur athletics to national championships, the series will tackle the triumphs and hardships of a life and career spent chasing basketball greatness while examining many of the most topical issues of equity between schools and players.
Rose, a member of the University of Michigan’s famed ‘Fab Five’ college basketball team, made approximately $2.2 million in salary during his first two seasons with the Nuggets. Today, he tells CNBC Make It, he doesn’t have a penny of it left. “Your first contract, you spend it all,” Rose, now 48, says. “Almost everyone spends it all.” Rose says he did what most rookies do: He bought “dumb things.” One of his dumbest purchases, he says, was a $15,000 luxury phone for “high-net-worth individuals” called Vertu.