{"id":179708,"date":"2025-09-25T00:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179708\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:36:07","slug":"knicks-fans-get-ready-to-fall-in-love-with-guerschon-yabusele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/179708\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fans, get ready to fall in love with Guerschon Yabusele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is the snapshot appetizer that can explain why New York City is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/01\/sports\/knicks-signing-big-man-guerschon-yabusele-for-12-million-in-nba-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going to love Guerschon Yabusele<\/a>. That\u2019s easy to find. That\u2019s all over YouTube, all over TikTok. There are GIFs galore. This was Aug. 10, 2024, the Olympic gold medal basketball game at Paris\u2019 Accor Arena.<\/p>\n<p>This was late in the second quarter. Yabusele \u2014 who\u2019d already emerged as the most intriguing outside-the-envelope player of those games \u2014 drove around Devin Booker, curling for the baseline. The U.S. led France by seven. There were 20,300 partisan fans who\u2019d been screaming themselves hoarse all day.<\/p>\n<p>Now the player they called \u201cL\u2019ors Dansant\u201d \u2014 \u201cthe Dancing Bear\u201d \u2014 was about to rocket them toward Pluto. Standing in Yabusele\u2019s way on his path to the basket was LeBron James. James wouldn\u2019t be in his way for long.<\/p>\n<p>Yabusele rose. Kept rising. And dunked on LeBron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is the snapshot appetizer that can explain why New York City is going to love Guerschon Yabusele.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6043,355,361,99,362,358],"class_list":["post-179708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}