{"id":524152,"date":"2026-01-08T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/524152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:00:12","slug":"knicks-make-decisions-on-players-with-nonguaranteed-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/524152\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks make decisions on players with nonguaranteed contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday was decision day regarding players on nonguaranteed contracts.<\/p>\n

Players on most nonguaranteed deals have their contracts become fully guaranteed Saturday, so if teams did not want to have a player\u2019s contract guaranteed, they had to be cut Wednesday in order to clear waivers by Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Knicks did not make any moves with Kevin McCullar Jr. and Trey Jemison III, both of whom are on two-way deals, as well as Landry Shamet, who was on a nonguaranteed deal for the veteran\u2019s minimum. <\/p>\n

Their contracts will become guaranteed.<\/p>\n

\"TosanTosan Evbuomwan was waived by the Knicks on Jan. 7, 2025. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

But the Knicks waived Tosan Evbuomwan, who was on a two-way deal.<\/p>\n

That opens up another two-way contract spot for the Knicks \u2014 they have until March 4 to do that \u2014 or saves them a bit of money.<\/p>\n

Unlike Evbuomwan, both McCullar and Jameson \u2014 though neither played in the Knicks\u2019 123-111 win<\/a> over the Clippers on Wednesday night \u2014 have at least some role in coach Mike Brown\u2019s rotation. But two-way players aren\u2019t eligible to be on playoff rosters \u2014 the Knicks would have to convert them to a standard contract if they want them for the postseason.<\/p>\n

Shamet\u2019s shoulder sprain at the end of November, and the decision to rehab rather than have surgery gave Knicks a decision to make \u2014 whether to waive him for immediate help or keep him while he rehabs and lack a bit of depth. <\/p>\n

They had until Wednesday to see the progress of that rehab and make that decision. Evidently, they\u2019d rather wait for Shamet to return than free up his contract for someone else.<\/p>\n

Evbuomwan, who spent last year with the Nets, hardly got any NBA action with the Knicks. He appeared in just five games \u2014 all in garbage time \u2014 and did not score. In six games in the G-League with the Westchester Knicks, Evbuomwan averaged 17.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

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In 50 career NBA games, he has averaged 7.4 points and 3.6 rebounds.<\/p>\n

He went undrafted in 2023 after starring at Princeton.<\/p>\n

Jeff Van Gundy \u2014 the last coach to take the Knicks to the Finals \u2014 was back on the sideline as a coach at Madison Square Garden for the first time since Nov. 20, 2006, when he was in charge of the Rockets. <\/p>\n

He is currently in his second season as a Clippers assistant.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Day 1, just coming in, the no-nonsense mentality, his hard-work mentality,\u201d Clippers coach Ty Lue said of Van Gundy before his squad\u2019s 123-111 loss to the Knicks<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s in the gym 5 o\u2019clock in the morning, prepping, looking at film. \u2026 Everyone sees how hard he works, what he brings to the table with his hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Director and Knicks fan Josh Safdie, whose \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d movie is currently in theaters, joined the MSG Network production crew for the night and helped with the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday was decision day regarding players on nonguaranteed contracts. Players on most nonguaranteed deals have their contracts become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,4988,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-524152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-landry-shamet","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115857720938103285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}