We’ve worked in the same department for 10 years – Missi as director of nutrition and wellness, and Diane at the Friendship Cafés – but the pandemic really put us together. Our cafés are about both ...

Yves Missi wasn’t expecting a rookie year quite like this. With the New Orleans Pelicans’ season ravaged by injuries, the rookie big man has played a larger role than anticipated. Throughout the ...

NEW ORLEANS – On paper, Baylor’s Yves Missi couldn’t be a better fit for the New Orleans Pelicans’ needs this offseason. With Jonas Valančiūnas entering unrestricted free agency this summer, the ...

With the Pelicans down a crop of talented players due to injury, rookie Yves Missi was able to continue his stretch of solid play in the starting lineup. New Orleans came into the season with big man ...

Life can come at you fast as a rookie in the NBA. There was no better example of this than Yves Missi finding himself on an island against the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on Saturday night during ...

After losing longtime starter Jonas Valanciunas to free agency this offseason, the New Orleans Pelicans had plenty of questions surrounding their center position. Now, rookie Yves Missi seems to be ...

Yves Missi capturing Western Conference Rookie of the Month for December probably came as no surprise to anyone who watched the New Orleans Pelicans over those 31 days, as the 20-year-old center kept ...

NEW YORK -- Yves Missi is an enormous, super-athletic center who covers an absurd amount of ground on defense. The day before the NBA Draft, Missi described himself as "someone with high motor and ...

Missi, the 21st overall pick in the 2024 draft, earned All-Rookie Second Team honors last season after averaging 9.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks per game across 67 starts. Now, with Looney ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The NBA Rookie of the Year race is just starting to heat up and out of the new crowd of names making their case a new frontrunner has emerged. Pelicans center Yves Missi, who has ...

Baylor center Yvesi Missi is entering the NBA Draft after a standout freshman season in Waco, Texas, he announced on Wednesday. Missi reclassified up last summer to join the Bears for the 2023-24 ...

Commonly described prior to the 2024 NBA Draft as a “long-term project” whose development could pay off someday down the road for a franchise, center Yves Missi seemed to have other ideas about that ...