Yaxel is Putting Up Numbers Nobody Has Seen Since Rookie Shaq 🤯

Yaxel Lendeborg is averaging 22.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, and 4 assists per game through his first five games in his career. In the process, he's setting records:

- First Warriors rookie with three straight games of 25+ points since Stephen Curry (2009)

- First Warriors player with 25+ PTS, 8+ REB in three straight games since Kevin Durant (2018)

- Most points by a Warriors rookie (113) through first five career games since Wilt Chamberlain.

Joins Paolo Banchero (2022) and Kevin Durant (2007) as highest-scoring rookies this century through the first five games of their career.

- First rookie with 110+ PTS, 40+ REB through first five career games since Shaquille O'Neal. Sixth player in NBA history to accomplish this.

- Sixth rookie in NBA history to tally 100+ PTS, 40+ REB, 20+ AST through his first five career games.