{"id":506404,"date":"2026-07-18T20:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=506404"},"modified":"2026-07-18T20:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T18:18:19","slug":"knicks-sign-restricted-free-agent-moussa-cisse-to-two-year-offer-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/knicks-sign-restricted-free-agent-moussa-cisse-to-two-year-offer-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks Sign Restricted Free Agent Moussa Ciss\u00e9 to Two-Year Offer Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Knicks have signed restricted free agent center Moussa Ciss\u00e9 to a two-year offer sheet, as reported by Jake Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks now have until Monday to match the offer and retain the 23-year-old big man.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2078538128101380560\">Shams Charania<\/a>, the contract is partially guaranteed in the first season and non-guaranteed in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Before turning their attention to Ciss\u00e9, the Knicks reportedly explored trades for Yves Missi of the New Orleans Pelicans and Moussa Diabat\u00e9 of the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Ciss\u00e9 averaged 4.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 38 games with the Mavericks last season. He also dominated under the boards in the G League with the Texas Legends, posting 14.8 points, 13.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The New York Knicks have signed restricted free agent center Moussa Ciss\u00e9 to a two-year offer sheet, I\u2019m told. Dallas will have through Monday to match.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheSteinLine<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dper6CKfhf\">https:\/\/t.co\/dper6CKfhf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JakeLFischer\/status\/2078536947350258024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 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 Dallas Mavericks have until Monday to match the offer and retain the 23-year-old big man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":506403,"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":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-506404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/moussa-cisse.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506404","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=506404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506404"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=506404"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=506404"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=506404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}