Overview

• Yabusele agreed to a two-year, $12 million contract with a second-year player option after the Knicks used their taxpayer midlevel exception to acquire him
• He declined the 76ers’ re-signing proposal, calling it “really, really low,” and emphasized he holds no hard feelings toward Philadelphia
• Philadelphia chose to allocate its midlevel exception toward Quentin Grimes and Trendon Watford while determining Grimes’s restricted free agent value
• After winning silver at the Paris Olympics and capturing a EuroLeague title in 2023, Yabusele returned to the NBA to post career highs of 11 points and 5.6 rebounds per game with Philadelphia
• Yabusele credited New York’s tight-knit culture and underdog ethos as the decisive factors in his decision to join the Knicks’ frontcourt rotation