{"id":356,"date":"2025-07-05T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T16:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-07-08T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:30:11","slug":"guerschon-yabusele-reacts-to-sixers-offer-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/guerschon-yabusele-reacts-to-sixers-offer-in-free-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerschon Yabusele Reacts To Sixers\u2019 Offer In Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_457921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-457921\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-457921\" src=\"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2204580125-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Indiana Pacers v Philadelphia 76ers\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-457921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Mitchell Leff\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Guerschon Yabusele provided the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/sports\/nba\/philadelphia-76ers\/\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> with one of their few bright spots in 2024-25, but they let him walk away.<\/p>\n<p>Yabusele recently signed a new deal with the New York Knicks, and he spoke about why.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to SKWEEK TV, via Legion Hoops, Yabusele said that the Sixers&#8217; offer to bring him back wasn&#8217;t even remotely close to what he wanted and needed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt was really, really low\u2026 like, \u2018Oh my God, you don\u2019t really want me to stay,&#8221; Yabusele said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-script=\"true\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guerschon Yabusele said the 76ers\u2019 offer in free agency felt like a message:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really, really low\u2026 like, \u2018Oh my God, you don\u2019t really want me to stay.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/skweektv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@skweektv<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ClutchPoints<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r3rzweYU7T\">pic.twitter.com\/r3rzweYU7T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1941231004167045491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yabusele and Jordan Clarkson were the two big offseason acquisitions for the Knicks, at least so far.<\/p>\n<p>They could both earn some big rotation minutes in the new season, and Yabusele might see his star rise even more in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers were decimated by injuries last year, and they never really stood a chance, but Yabusele played some strong basketball.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 11.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists on 50.1 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p>He looked like someone who could be in Philadelphia for a very long time, but he ultimately remained with the Sixers for a single season.<\/p>\n<p>The team would have loved to keep him, but they simply didn&#8217;t have much money to offer.<\/p>\n<p>They are attempting to juggle multiple players at the same time, hoping to sign and keep a few stars.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, what they could devote to Yabusele just wasn&#8217;t enough, and he decided to walk.<\/p>\n<p>Choices like this happen all the time in the NBA, and it hopefully doesn&#8217;t come back to bite the 76ers.<\/p>\n<p>If Yabusele goes to New York, gets even better, and contributes a lot, people will curse the 76ers for letting him go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\/guerschon-yabusele-reacts-to-sixers-offer-in-free-agency\/\">Guerschon Yabusele Reacts To Sixers&#8217; Offer In Free Agency<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldwire.com\">The Cold Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Mitchell Leff\/Getty Images) &nbsp; Guerschon Yabusele provided the Philadelphia 76ers with one of their few bright ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secureserverdot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}