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Although the New York Knicks have been quiet in the days leading up to the NBA trade deadline,
They moved in silence and completed a trade with the top sellers at this year's deadline on Wednesday night.
Senior NBA insider Shams Charania reported that New York agreed to a deal that will send first-year Knick Guerschon Yabusele to the Chicago Bulls in exchange for Dalen Terry.
Knicks send Guerschon Yabusele to the Bulls for Dalen Terry
New York will now allow Dalen Terry to compete for the backup power forward position.
The 2022 first-round pick has played in Chicago for his entire four-year career, appearing in 204 games and drawing seven starts for the Bulls.
In that time, Chicago went out and got Matas Buzelis in 2024. This led to him emerging as the starting power forward and leaving Terry with limited opportunity. The Bulls are sending him to New York in exchange for a veteran guy.
So far this season, the 6-foot-6, 195-pound small-ball power forward has averaged 3.5 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game while shooting an efficient 44.1 percent from the field and 41.3 percent from three.
Guerschon Yabusele, 30, signed a two-year, $11.27 million contract with the New York Knicks this offseason after a breakout year with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2024-25.
For an injury-riddled 76ers team, Yabusele averaged 11.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists in 70 games played. The expectation for the big man was for him to play as the second power forward for the Knicks, but it didn't pan out.
He hadn't appeared in New York's past three games, and head coach Mike Brown was playing 2025 second-round pick Mohamed Diawara in the backup power forward spot in the days leading up to moving on from Yabusele.
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