{"id":700931,"date":"2026-04-06T06:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:08:20","slug":"landry-shamet-grateful-for-special-knicks-opportunity-after-full-return-from-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700931\/","title":{"rendered":"Landry Shamet grateful for ‘special’ Knicks opportunity after full return from injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Landry Shamet finds himself in a place that most wouldn\u2019t have expected to start the season.<\/p>\n

Healthy again after missing a few games with a knee issue, he is pretty much a lock to be in the Knicks playoff rotation.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Knicks guard Landry Shamet (44) takes a 3-point shot past Chicago Bulls forward Guerschon Yabusele (28). Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t take these moments for granted, man,\u201d Shamet said after practice Sunday. \u201cThis thing\u2019s delicate, I know that. It\u2019s a special team, special market, special opportunity and just to wear the jersey even. I\u2019m grateful and happy to be a part of this group and have Mike\u2019s [Brown] trust and my teammates\u2019 trust. I trust in them as well. Super grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He hardly had a role under Tom Thibodeau last year. <\/p>\n

And before the year, having signed just a nonguaranteed, veteran minimum contract, he was one of the last players to make Brown\u2019s roster \u2014 and likely only did so due to Malcolm Brogdon\u2019s sudden retirement.<\/p>\n

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Then after 15 promising games to start the year, he dislocated his shoulder \u2014 the same one he dislocated last year. The Knicks, given Shamet\u2019s deal wasn\u2019t guaranteed, could have cut him and looked to get help elsewhere.<\/p>\n

But they afforded Shamet time to rehab. And it\u2019s paid tremendous dividends. He has emerged as a key shooter off the bench, averaging 9.6 points per game \u2014 which would be a career high for a full season \u2014 and shooting 39.4 percent from 3-point range. He has also been one of the team\u2019s best point-of-attack defenders.<\/p>\n

\"DeJonDeJon Jarreau and Landry Shamet are fighting for a loose ball during a basketball game. Getty Images<\/p>\n

There is certainly a case to be made that the Knicks have gotten more out of Shamet than any player on a minimum deal in the league.<\/p>\n

One area in which he\u2019s contributed, though, has gone under the radar \u2014 his ability to be a backup point guard. Brown has praised Shamet\u2019s ability to handle that role, despite him being much more of a shooting guard most of his NBA career. Though neither are naturals at the position, Brown feels comfortable with both Shamet and Miles McBride there.<\/p>\n

And now with both healthy, that doesn\u2019t leave much room for Jose Alvarado in the rotation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a good enough ball handler, he has a good enough feel\/IQ to initiate the offense,\u201d Brown said of Shamet on Sunday. \u201cAnd then conceptually, because of his feel and the other guys\u2019 feel, we\u2019re able to generate some things offensively. We\u2019re not relying on him to be a traditional point guard. He and Deuce [McBride] are more than capable of doing the things that we\u2019re asking in terms of initiating the offense. And then at the end of the day, can they play pick-and-roll, can they play the [dribble handoff] game, get downhill and spray the ball or throw the lob to a guy like Mitch [Robinson]? I think he can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shamet fills multiple vital roles for the Knicks. There was a time it didn\u2019t seem like he\u2019d even have any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Landry Shamet finds himself in a place that most wouldn\u2019t have expected to start the season. Healthy again…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,4988,3357,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-700931","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-mike-brown","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356271738958503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700931","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=700931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}