{"id":504789,"date":"2026-07-08T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=504789"},"modified":"2026-07-08T07:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:29:25","slug":"guerschon-yabusele-agrees-to-three-year-deal-with-panathinaikos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/guerschon-yabusele-agrees-to-three-year-deal-with-panathinaikos\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerschon Yabusele Agrees to Three-Year Deal with Panathinaikos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guerschon Yabusele has agreed to a three-year contract worth approximately $15 million with Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n<p>The news was first reported by Michael Scotto, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1989113\/panathinaikos-signing-guerschon-yabusele-to-a-three-year-deal\/\">Eurohoops<\/a> revealed the financial details of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old French power forward is set to return to Europe after spending the past two seasons in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks, and Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>Yabusele appeared in 41 games for the future NBA champion New York Knicks this season. Before the trade deadline, he declined his player option to facilitate a move to the Bulls, where he was expected to have a larger role after averaging just eight minutes per game under coach Mike Brown in New York.<\/p>\n<p>At Panathinaikos, Yabusele will join a roster built to compete for every title alongside fellow French international Mathias Lessort and another of Europe&#8217;s highest-paid players, star guard Kendrick Nunn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Free agent forward Guerschon Yabusele has agreed to a three-year deal with Panathinaikos, league sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hoopshype?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hoopshype<\/a>. Yabusele will be one of the top three highest-paid European players. He&#8217;s averaged 8.3 points over the past two NBA seasons with the 76ers, Bulls and Knicks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UjfAxXy5S0\">pic.twitter.com\/UjfAxXy5S0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeAScotto\/status\/2074647897509900624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 30-year-old French power forward is set to return to Europe after spending the past two seasons in the NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":478540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,249,399],"tags":[],"rumors":[407,175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-504789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","category-nba","rumors-basket-rumors","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/2024_BRONDI_15_MARZO_090.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504789"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=504789"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=504789"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=504789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}