{"id":555009,"date":"2026-01-23T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:35:39","slug":"guerschon-yabusele-posts-cryptic-message-hinting-at-possible-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555009\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerschon Yabusele posts cryptic message hinting at possible trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things just don&#8217;t work out in the NBA for whatever reason, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> seem to be coming to that conclusion when it comes to their offseason signing of Guerschon Yabusele. Yabusele was coming off a solid return season after spending some time overseas, but <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-news-why-guerschon-yabusele-factored-mike-browns-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he has not been playing well at all for the Knicks<\/a>. And with head coach Mike Brown having other options at the center position, Yabusele has become a rather expendable piece.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t much risk in the Knicks&#8217; decision to bring Yabusele in. But it is certainly disappointing that the man they devoted most of their taxpayer midlevel exception to has become rather expendable. Using Yabusele&#8217;s contract as a means to acquire an upgrade on the market appears to be the Knicks&#8217; easiest course of action, and it looks like the 30-year-old Frenchman already knows <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yabusele28\/status\/2014556925216592239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the writing on the wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever happens tomorrow, I\u2019m extremely blessed to be in the position that I am today. Minor setback for major comeback that\u2019s my favorite. Love y&#8217;all \ud83d\udda4 #777,\u201d Yabusele wrote on his official account on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-dream-2026-nba-trade-deadline-scenario-boosts-title-contention\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">change of scenery seems to be what Yabusele needs<\/a> to get his NBA career back on track. He has it in him to bounce back; he did not magically lose the talent that allowed him to average 11 points a night last season, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Knicks to move quickly on the trade market?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3675969\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Knicks-All-Star-Karl-Anthony-Towns.jpg\" alt=\"Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) looks up during the third quarter against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are not likely to get much back in exchange for Yabusele and other tradeable assets they have. But there is a chance that Yabusele is thrown into a bigger deal, with New York reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-rumors-karl-anthony-towns-trade-before-deadline-unlikely-but-future-still-in-doubt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">entertaining the idea of trading Karl-Anthony Towns away<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are two weeks remaining before the trade deadline, so New York has to be working the phones in trying to figure out ways to improve the roster amid a rough stretch to start the calendar year of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some things just don&#8217;t work out in the NBA for whatever reason, and the New York Knicks seem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,204,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-555009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115943266462831760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}