{"id":610936,"date":"2026-02-19T04:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/610936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T04:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:02:19","slug":"jeremy-sochan-feeling-blessed-to-get-knicks-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/610936\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Sochan feeling ‘blessed’ to get Knicks opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Sochan arrived with his hair dyed Knicks colors and excited to move on<\/a> from his ugly ending in San Antonio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJust no real opportunity, in my opinion,\u201d Sochan said of this campaign with the Spurs before he was waived last week and signed with the Knicks<\/a>. \u201cAnd it is what it is. It\u2019s a very deep team. And maybe I didn\u2019t see eye to eye with Coach, and Coach didn\u2019t see anything I could do for the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it is what it is. And I\u2019m just blessed to be in an opportunity where I can grow and blossom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SanSan Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan (10) stretches before substituting in during the second half against the Utah Jazz at Delta Center. Peter Creveling-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Sochan\u2019s availability in the buyout market would\u2019ve been a shocker before this season, when he was coming off three campaigns of averaging more than 25 minutes and a spot on the 2023 first-team All-Rookie squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Sochan never jibed with head coach Mitch Johnson, who replaced Gregg Popovich. He was racking up regular DNPs before the All-Star break. A big hindrance to Sochan\u2019s playing time, according to people familiar with the situation, was the 22-year-old\u2019s poor jump shooting. <\/p>\n

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His career efficiency from deep is under 30 percent. Sochan\u2019s defense, which had previously facilitated a large role, was uninspiring this season in limited action.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough. In my whole career even looking past the NBA I\u2019ve never really been sitting on the bench and getting DNPs. So you go through a process of questioning why or what\u2019s happening,\u201d Sochan said. \u201cIt can get stressful. But at the end of the day, I\u2019m from England, where basketball is not big. So I know my worth. I know what I can bring to the team, and I\u2019m blessed that the organization here [in New York] has seen that. And I\u2019m super excited to get a fresh slate and show what I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JeremyJeremy Sochan of the San Antonio Spurs during the game against the Dallas Mavericks on February 7, 2026 at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Knicks were interested in Sochan at the trade deadline, according to sources, but the Spurs had no interest in their offer of Guerschon Yabusele. <\/p>\n

So the Knicks pounced when Sochan hit the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan is to give Sochan a chance as the backup power forward, with coach Mike Brown saying Wednesday that he wants to test the new player before the playoffs. Sochan \u2014 who often dyes his hair and settled on orange and blue before his Knicks debut \u2014 is getting a fresh start on a bigger stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery excited. The culture here, at the Knicks and New York in general, is crazy and very global. And I feel like I\u2019m global, too,\u201d said Sochan, who was born in Oklahoma to a Polish mother and grew up in England. \u201cSo I\u2019m just super excited to be here and just grow with this city and the club.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Sochan arrived with his hair dyed Knicks colors and excited to move on from his ugly ending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,2724,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,474,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-610936","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-jeremy-sochan","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks","16":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116095311025698999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610936","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=610936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}