Overview
- Lendeborg has led Michigan to the national championship game as the Big Ten Player of the Year and one of the tournament’s standout performers.
- His mother, Yissel Raposo, has Stage 4 appendix cancer and has continued to attend games during chemotherapy, saying she has completed 11 treatments.
- He says he becomes more aggressive when he hears her in the arena, explaining that he can hear nobody else and that it puts him in attack mode.
- He credits Raposo for saving his path by demanding he fix his grades and start at junior college, a route that took him from Arizona Western to UAB and then to Michigan.
- The family’s basketball lineage runs deep, with both parents tied to the Dominican Republic’s national teams and sister Yisendy now playing for Pennsauken High School.