Celtics' Guerschon Yabusele Signs One-Year, $1.5M Deal With Shanghai

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:08 pm

Guerschon Yabusele has signed a one-year deal with the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association worth as much as $1.5 million.

Yabusele was the 16th overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics.

Yabusele averaged 82. points and 6.0 rebounds in eight Summer League games for Boston.

Via Adam Himmelsbach/Boston Globe

airaaron32 · Post #2 » by **airaaron32** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:11 pm

82 points? Clearly the NBA wasn't enough of a challenge for him.

Hullajelolt · Post #3 » by **Hullajelolt** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:45 pm

airaaron32 wrote:82 points? Clearly the NBA wasn't enough of a challenge for him.

Well, in the CBA he can average close to that

bj2323 · Post #4 » by **bj2323** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 4:57 pm

So... Is he already considered a bust? Or is this a tricky move by Ainge to keep him overseas for an extra year?

Donnyxc · Post #5 » by **Donnyxc** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:35 pm

bj2323 wrote:So... Is he already considered a bust? Or is this a tricky move by Ainge to keep him overseas for an extra year?

Nah, it's just a minutes thing. Guerschon would be pretty low in the rotation in an already crowded Front Court in Boston. He's a young kid with fundamentals, but could work on his basketball IQ a bit. Playing overseas for a year should help in long term.

Chi Dynasty12 · Post #6 » by **Chi Dynasty12** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:16 pm

82 ppg?! Wow

rusoopE · Post #7 » by **rusoopE** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:33 pm

CHAMPi0N · Post #8 » by **CHAMPi0N** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 6:45 pm

82 points a game and he only got $1.5M per year overseas? What a steal!

Seriously though this guy is gonna really benefit from the year off... See you next summer Guerschon!

ChokeFasncists · Post #9 » by **ChokeFasncists** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:46 pm

No one wanted to trade for Celtics' picks

DarthDiggler69 · Post #10 » by **DarthDiggler69** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:50 pm

He should be getting the max for 82ppg

Patsfan1081 · Post #11 » by **Patsfan1081** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 10:13 pm

ChokeFasncists wrote:No one wanted to trade for Celtics' picks

They traded two of their picks in this draft. Unless you mean the third pick, which means no one wanted to trade a star for the Nets pick.

Cuban Pete · Post #12 » by **Cuban Pete** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 12:08 am

bj2323 wrote:So... Is he already considered a bust? Or is this a tricky move by Ainge to keep him overseas for an extra year?

He needs to learn to go to his left. He only shoots with his right. His ticket to productivity in the NBA will be his offense. He scored only 11.3 pts/36min in Vegas. Not good enough. He'll need to fix the problems in his game in China, an emerging league.

ChokeFasncists · Post #13 » by **ChokeFasncists** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 1:13 am

Patsfan1081 wrote:
ChokeFasncists wrote:No one wanted to trade for Celtics' picks

They traded two of their picks in this draft. Unless you mean the third pick, which means no one wanted to trade a star for the Nets pick.

That was definitely an underwhelming trade, 2nd rounders, for what?

celticfan42487 · Post #14 » by **celticfan42487** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:36 am

ChokeFasncists wrote:
Patsfan1081 wrote:
ChokeFasncists wrote:No one wanted to trade for Celtics' picks

They traded two of their picks in this draft. Unless you mean the third pick, which means no one wanted to trade a star for the Nets pick.

That was definitely an underwhelming trade, 2nd rounders, for what?

2 second rounders for 1 future first round pick.

bj2323 wrote:So... Is he already considered a bust? Or is this a tricky move by Ainge to keep him overseas for an extra year?

It's a "trick" move by Ainge. But Yausele isn't that great anyways. Kind of a Jared Sullinger version 2.0.

But yeah the Celtics have a roster crunch with the max only being 15 players. So this allow them to let him develop, push his rookie contract down the road a year, and keep him off the official roster numbers to have more players on their team. All for a rookie who mgiht of actually seen some minutes at backup PF but there are plenty of people on the roster (Crowder, Kelly O, Jerkabo) who can take those minutes and probably produce just as much.

ChokeFasncists · Post #15 » by **ChokeFasncists** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:40 am

celticfan42487 wrote:
ChokeFasncists wrote:
Patsfan1081 wrote:
They traded two of their picks in this draft. Unless you mean the third pick, which means no one wanted to trade a star for the Nets pick.

That was definitely an underwhelming trade, 2nd rounders, for what?

2 second rounders for 1 future first round pick.

And 2019, that's very very underwhelming.

celticfan42487 · Post #16 » by **celticfan42487** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:52 am

ChokeFasncists wrote:
celticfan42487 wrote:
ChokeFasncists wrote:That was definitely an underwhelming trade, 2nd rounders, for what?

2 second rounders for 1 future first round pick.

And 2019, that's very very underwhelming.

Um.. well I strongly disagree.

ChokeFasncists · Post #17 » by **ChokeFasncists** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:26 am

celticfan42487 wrote:
ChokeFasncists wrote:
celticfan42487 wrote:
2 second rounders for 1 future first round pick.

And 2019, that's very very underwhelming.

Um.. well I strongly disagree.

If this is overwhelming, what was the Minny KG and Seattle Allen trade like?

The_Hater · Post #18 » by **The_Hater** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:29 am

bj2323 wrote:So... Is he already considered a bust? Or is this a tricky move by Ainge to keep him overseas for an extra year?

Obviously they're stashing him overseas. The Celtics have way too many players and not enough roster spots.