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Guerschon Yabusele #28 of the New York Knicks dribbles against Sion James #4 of the Charlotte Hornets during the first half at Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n
The Knicks<\/a> are well into the middle plank of this season, and if there is a hole in this roster, it\u2019s likely up front. When healthy, with the emergence of Tyler Kolek<\/a> and the eventual return of Landry Shamet<\/a> (and now, too, Josh Hart<\/a>), it appears the backcourt depth is much better than expected. The need to add another veteran point guard, which dominated the early chatter around this team\u2019s trade-deadline plans, has dissipated.<\/p>\n But the frontcourt has been another story. The Knicks appeared to have a score when they brought in Guerschon Yabusele<\/a> this offseason on a very reasonable two-year, $12 million contract, but as the season has gone on, it has become clear that coach Mike Brown<\/a> could not find a spot for Yabusele in his offense, and certainly not in the defense.<\/p>\n Yabusele has averaged<\/a> just 3.2 points in 9.3 minutes, making 30 appearances this season. This comes after he had a major comeback season last year with the Sixers, going for 11.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists after having spent the past five years playing internationally in China, France and Spain.<\/p>\n Guerschon Yabusele Still Has Trade Value for Knicks<\/p>\n One of the fears around Yabusele for the Knicks is that the reduction in playing time and production could signal the cratering of his trade market. And though he has seen his value diminish, if the Knicks want to move off of his contract, there will be takers\u2013as long as they\u2019re not expecting much of a return.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re definitely looking for a backup big guy and the market is going to be pretty thin on those,\u201d one Eastern Conference GM said. \u201cThey have been wanting to get another Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> kind of deal going and they\u2019ve sort of been chasing that but that was lightning in a bottle.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s probably not a situation where the Knicks can trade Yabu for another big guy straight up, but they could trade him with a second round pick to kind of dump off his salary, then look to bring in someone else. But he will have value. If they want to move him just to get him off the roster, they will have that option\u2013they\u2019ll have to add a pick. But it is only after that, then they can try to find someone else. They will need a Plan B.\u201d<\/p>\n In Need of a Plan B<\/p>\n Again, there are not a lot of Plan Bs on the trade market this year, and the Knicks are aware of that. Their best option could, in the end, be trying to make things work with Yabusele. Even as he has admitted to being frustrated with his lack of a role, Yabusele has been a good locker room and practice presence\u2013the Knicks have no issues with him, other than his lack of a fit.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just like you, I don\u2019t know anything about it,\u201d\u00a0he said<\/a>, in French, to L\u2019Equipe. \u201cAs I\u2019ve said, I\u2019m trying not to complain too much about my situation anymore, to make do with what I\u2019ve got, to give everything on the court. And when I need to be informed (about an eventual trade), I\u2019ll be informed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tSean Deveney<\/a> is a veteran sports reporter covering the NBA, NFL and MLB for Heavy.com. He has written for Heavy since 2019 and has more than two decades of experience covering the NBA, including 17 years as the lead NBA reporter for the Sporting News. Deveney is the author of 7 nonfiction books, including “Fun City,” “Before Wrigley became Wrigley,” and “Facing Michael Jordan.” More about Sean Deveney<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Knicks\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Guerschon Yabusele #28 of the New York Knicks dribbles against Sion James #4 of the Charlotte Hornets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-392282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}