Per recent reports, the Knicks are now open on trading the French standout.
Guerschon Yabusele instantly popped up on the league's rumor mill when it was recently reported that the New York Knicks are open to moving him.
Guerschon Yabusele
Guerschon Yabusele
Guerschon Yabusele
MIN: 9.62
PTS: 2.96 (41.98%)
REB: 2.15
As: 0.38
ST: 0.12
BL: 0.15
TO: 0.35
GM: 26
As such, veteran Knicks insider Ian Begley confirmed the news, noting that a trade is now imminent for both the French star and the franchise.
"This was, so far, a miss for the front office, and we'll see where it goes from here," Begley said on The Putback.
"I think that that's probably the direction this goes. Yabusele, the Knicks, they understand it's not working well and maybe, you know, you work together, you try to figure out what the next steps are."
Fresh from a major 2024 Olympic run with France, Yabusele enjoyed an NBA career revival as he eventually signed with the Philadelphia 76ers on a one-year deal, averaging 11.0 points and 5.6 boards in 50.1 percent shooting (38 percent from three) in 70 games.
This paved the way for him to secure a two-year, $11.275 million deal with the Knicks last offseason. But what Yabusele and New York had hoped this 2025-26 season would eventually fail to work.
After tearing it up last year, Yabusele suddenly took a sharp decline. He is just averaging 3.0 points and 2.2 boards, shooting 39.4 percent across 9.6 minutes within a Knicks team that is under the new leadership of Mike Brown.
While the Knicks have maintained their title heavyweight status with a 20-8 record, Yabusele couldn't ride the team's success so far this regular season.
With a trade on the horizon soon, Begley insisted that the Knicks will have a hard time dealing Yabusele away, considering the team's second apron standing.
"They didn't spend a lot of money in free agency, they didn't have a lot of money to spend, but their biggest tool, they used to sign Guerschon Yabusele. And Yabusele was getting a lot of interest from other teams, Denver was right there with the Knicks at the end, so it's not like other teams had a different read than the Knicks," Begley added.
"But when you make that kind of commitment, especially with the player-option second year, you're making a significant commitment in this era of second apron and every dollar mattering, meaning something."
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