Mark Pope calls $7-$9 million offer to Yaxel Lendeborg “100% false”
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Remember when Yaxel Lendeborg claimed Kentucky offered him $7-to-9 million in the last transfer portal cycle? And that he turned it down for way less to play for Michigan?
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It turns out that everyone with any sense who thought ‘that’s probably not true’ was correct.
During his Monday radio show, Mark Pope denied the claim and made sure everyone knows there wasn’t an ounce of truth to it.
“I don’t want to spend all my time chasing all the false stories. I don’t want to be a fact-check. But stories like that, for example, that story is 100% categorically false with no truth to it,” Pope stated.
As we said before, Yaxel’s version of the story sounded more like some fake AI garbage your grandparents read on Facebook and asked you if it was true. We’ve seen plenty of those going around this season for Kentucky, including one claiming Collin Chandler donated all of his NIL pay to charity.
Alas, we’re in a period where it’s easy to dunk on Pope and Kentucky, so people like Yaxel think they can say whatever they want about the program and get away with it. Except Pope, who normally goes out of his way to take the high road, isn’t letting that happen here.
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