Guerschon Yabusele needs again within the NBA and it looks like the previous Boston Celtics ahead is utilizing the Olympic stage as his audition to attain simply that.
Yabusele, who fits up for France, even added a highlight-reel play involving LeBron James that he can exhibit to executives across the league.
The beefy 6-foot-8 ahead, who earned the nickname “Dancing Bear” throughout his time with the Celtics, skied over the NBA famous person and threw down a posterizing dunk with James in its wake in the course of the first half of Saturday’s gold medal recreation in opposition to Workforce USA.
James, who came to visit as a assist defender to attempt to stop Yabusele from attending to the basket, was referred to as for a block on the play, too. You possibly can watch Yabusele’s athletic slam right here:
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That play might be the cherry on prime of a standout exhibiting within the Olympics for Yabusele. He is been certainly one of France’s prime gamers in the course of the video games and even had the house Paris crowd giving him MVP chants.
On the ground with among the greatest gamers on the earth with a purpose medal at stake, it was Yabusele who led all scorers at halftime with 15 factors.
The 28-year-old was drafted sixteenth total by the Celtics within the 2016 NBA draft and ended up taking part in 74 video games over two seasons for Boston. He averaged simply 2.3 factors and 1.4 rebounds per recreation over that point.
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It positive looks like Yabusele might get one other shot on the NBA given the way in which his Olympics went. He seems to be like a way more polished and versatile. Simply ask James about that.
