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The Golden State Warriors have played 10 games this season, and rookie phenom Yaxel Lendeborg has given the team a new identity.
“Y’all ever heard of the Bad Boy Pistons? Yeah. That’s damn near us,” Lendeborg said.
Lendeborg was seen reacting to a second-quarter scuffle between the Warriors and Magic on Saturday night.
Yaxel Lendeborg reacts to FlightReacts reacting to the scuffle between Georges Niang and Wendell Carter Jr. and makes a declaration:
“We finna be the remodeled Bad Boy Pistons, you feel me. We all— Yeah it’s just been too much going on bro. I feel like there’s 10 ejections in… pic.twitter.com/XqHZoUYPxQ
— Yaxel LendeBeast (Loyalist) (@Gmzeroog) November 9, 2026
The scuffle ignited near the 9:17 mark of the quarter when Georges Niang was seen pushing Wendell Carter Jr. off of him after Tristan Da Silva passed a ball over Draymond Green’s head.
During the play, Niang was seen reaching into Carter Jr.’s groin area, and he immediately turned around, and the two started grabbing each other’s jerseys and exchanging words with one another.
The tussle caused the players on the court to stop what they were doing and immediately try to separate them from each other.
Green, who’s never been shy to tell an opposing player his true feelings, was seen at the front lines of the scuffle and started grabbing Carter Jr.’s jersey and tossed in a few of his own words.
“Draymond’s like Ben Wallace, he just don’t be dunking that s—t. You know what I’m saying?” Lendeborg said.
Lendeborg then checked history knowledge asking, “If that was the bad boy Pistons era?”
“All I know is, that’s us. We finna be the remodeled Bad Boy Pistons.”
The rookie might need to brush up on his NBA history. No, Ben Wallace was not a member of the Bad Boy Pistons teams of the 1980s. But they were very physical, en route to winning a championship of their own.
Green is the only player on the Warriors to be ejected from a game this season. But Lendeborg said he believes this year’s team has at least “10 ejections in our nearby future.”
“I think my boy Dray got two more in him. I feel like I might have two in me. Two in total though cause I’m a rookie; I can’t do this crazy stuff,” Lendeborg said.
Lendeborg went on to say that he believes Graham Ike will have “three to four total,” and that he thinks Niang won’t receive an ejection but will have a couple of technical fouls this season.
The Warriors went on to win the game, 126-119, as Curry scored 41 points, making it the second time this season he’s scored over 40 points.
