Welcome again to New York, Landry Shamet.
The Knicks are reportedly bringing again the veteran three-and-D wing utilizing their last minimal wage slot on a roster constructed to compete for an NBA championship, in keeping with ESPN’s Shams Charania.
Which suggests, barring a commerce, the Knicks’ 2025–26 regular-season roster is now set, with Shamet returning because the tenth man on a workforce supporting All-Stars Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Cities.
Shamet carved out a key function within the Knicks’ postseason run, serving to swing momentum within the Jap Convention Finals after the workforce — utilizing a shortened rotation beneath head coach Tom Thibodeau — fell into an 0–2 gap towards the Indiana Pacers.
He averaged 5.7 factors on 39.7% capturing from three throughout 50 video games final season, bouncing again from a dislocated shoulder that sidelined him through the preseason and early common season.
The signing provides one other ground spacer, a gritty on-ball defender and a participant with a confirmed playoff résumé. It’s a low-risk, high-reward transfer to spherical out the Knicks’ rotation, a well-recognized face returning after a productive finish to his season.
And now, Mike Brown has extra lineup flexibility than his predecessor ever had.
Brunson, Cities, Mikal Bridges, and OG Anunoby are locked in as starters. From there, Brown can combine and match with Josh Hart, Mitchell Robinson, Jordan Clarkson, Guerschon Yabusele, Miles McBride, and now Shamet, giving the Knicks a flexible, two-way second unit with actual capturing and defensive chunk.
Second-year gamers Pacome Dadiet, Tyler Kolek, and Ariel Hukporti stay developmental choices, with Hukporti anticipated to reprise his function because the third heart after recovering from a torn meniscus (although the Knicks might flip to Yabusele as a small-ball 5, a job he performed throughout Joel Embiid’s prolonged absence in Philadelphia).
The Knicks nonetheless have sufficient flexibility beneath the second apron to signal a rookie to a minimal contract. However so as to add one other veteran, they’d first must clear a roster spot and wage by way of commerce.
The Shamet signing follows preliminary discussions between the Knicks and Ben Simmons, who New York held preliminary curiosity in earlier than the embattled former Rookie of the Yr and three-time All-Star started considering his NBA future.
Whereas the Knicks expressed curiosity, they by no means made a proper contract supply.
