Warriors Player Says He 'Lost All Respect' for Luka Doncic
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Yaxel Lendeborg plays basketball for the Golden State Warriors.
Luka Doncic plays for the Los Angeles Lakers.
The two players met in an NBA game.
During the game, Doncic said some words to Lendeborg. This is called trash talk in sports.
Lendeborg was not happy about this.
He said he "lost all respect" for Doncic after the game.
Other people also talked about the fight of words.
One NBA exec said Lakers player J.J. Redick owes Lendeborg a steak dinner.
This means Redick should say thank you to Lendeborg.
Lendeborg's comments made big news in basketball.
Fans and reporters talked about it a lot.
The story shows that games can bring strong feelings between players.
Vocabulary15 words
- Warriors
- a basketball team from Golden State
- Lakers
- a basketball team from Los Angeles
- NBA
- the biggest basketball league in the US
- trash talk
- words players say to upset other players
- exec
- a person with an important job at a company
- basketball
- a sport played with a ball and two teams
- respect
- a good feeling about someone
- player
- a person who plays in a game
- fans
- people who love a sport or team
- comments
- words a person says about something
- game
- a match between two teams
- team
- a group of players
- news
- new information people talk about
- story
- a report about something that happened
- sports
- games people play to compete
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1. Golden State Warriors 2. He lost respect for him 3. He owes Lendeborg a steak dinner
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Yaxel Lendeborg plays basketball for the Golden State _____.
Luka Doncic plays for the Los Angeles _____.
The two players met in an _____ game.
During the game, Doncic said some words to Lendeborg. This is called _____ in sports.
Lendeborg was not happy about this.
He said he "lost all _____" for Doncic after the game.
One NBA _____ said Lakers player J.J. Redick owes Lendeborg a steak dinner.
This means Redick should say thank you to _____.
Lendeborg's comments made big news in _____.
The story shows that games can bring strong _____ between players.
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