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Top-ranked transfer Yaxel Lendeborg chose Michigan basketball over the NBA draft.

Lendeborg cited Michigan's potential to improve his draft stock and feedback from NBA teams as reasons for his decision.

He aims to refine his shooting while showcasing his passing and rebounding skills.

It wasn't an easy decision.

Yaxel Lendeborg was stuck between two fantastic options much of the spring: He could keep his name in the NBA Draft and live out his lifelong basketball dreams, likely ending up as a first-round pick of a team that made the playoffs this past season. Or he could stay in college, moving up to Power Four play, make a pretty penny to do so and be the face of a major program — Michigan basketball .

The No. 1 transfer portal prospect (per 247 Sports' rankings

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