{"id":804199,"date":"2026-08-05T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/804199\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:06:15","slug":"tyler-nickel-situation-emerges-as-knicks-shape-2026-27-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/804199\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Nickel situation emerges as Knicks shape 2026-27 roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cFormer Purdue All-American Braden Smith is not considering a return to college basketball in the fallout of Friday\u2019s injunction that cleared a path for a fifth year of collegiate eligibility for the Class of 2022, his representatives at Priority Sports told CBS Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSmith was the No. 38 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls, who traded his draft rights to the Indiana Pacers. He is one of five second-round picks who have not signed a rookie contract yet, joining BYU\u2019s Richie Saunders (No. 32 to the Memphis Grizzlies), Vanderbilt\u2019s Tyler Nickel (No. 47 to the New York Knicks), St. John\u2019s Dillon Mitchell (No. 40 to the Boston Celtics) and Florida State\u2019s Lajae Jones (No. 54 to the Golden State Warriors). Nickel and Mitchell are expected to explore their college options, but Smith\u2019s record-setting career is over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFormer Purdue All-American Braden Smith is not considering a return to college basketball in the fallout of Friday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,25312,19498,2964,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":["post-804199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-knicks-draft","tag-knicks-roster","tag-knicks-news","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117042111038772088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804199","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=804199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}