locked him up on a four-year, $24 million extension this summer<\/a>. It\u2019s not a life-changing number by league standards, but for a player who has spent every offseason since 2024 wondering whether he\u2019d have a jersey in October, it\u2019s the first contract that didn\u2019t come with an asterisk.<\/p>\n\u201cLast couple of years I\u2019ve been pretty open with you guys. It definitely gives you a sense of perspective and appreciation that I\u2019m grateful for,\u201d Shamet said. \u201cTo be believed in and have that offered to me, for me and Cammi to be able to stay here in New York and continue to grow this thing, it\u2019s pretty special. To be asked to be a part of it is humbling and I\u2019m grateful for it every day. It means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
The difference shows in how he\u2019s carrying himself through this camp compared to the ones before it \u2014 the ones that started with a dislocated shoulder, a G League assignment, or a non-guaranteed minimum deal riding on his health and a roster crunch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a way, it just makes me proud of myself. That\u2019s why you work through the difficult times and the challenging and the questioning ones. Typically, there\u2019s really good stuff on the other end of that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt feels good, it feels good to be a part of this moving forward. I don\u2019t want to drop my level or get complacent or any of that, that\u2019s definitely not the feeling. It\u2019s more, it just feels good to know you don\u2019t have that heavy heavy wave running on your ass again this training camp.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a player who spent two years proving himself one non-guaranteed deal at a time, that\u2019s the real story of his summer \u2014 not the shooting, but what it did for his family.<\/p>\n
POP\u2019S CONGRATULATIONS<\/p>\n
Knicks head coach Mike Brown said his mentor, Hall of Fame San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, reached out to congratulate him after OG Anunoby\u2019s tip-in lifted the Knicks to a 3-1 series lead in the 2026 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Pop] is grizzled, experienced. He understands how this works. We actually talked a couple of times during the playoffs,\u201d Brown said after Day 2 of training camp on Wednesday. \u201cAfter OG\u2019s tip-in, he called me and talked me through a lot of things. It was great to have conversations with him from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown said the league\u2019s coaching community fully embraced him after ending the Knicks\u2019 53-year title drought.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coaching community is tight. Everybody wants everybody to do well because they know that the guy across from them is the one that really knows what I\u2019m going through or the other guy\u2019s going through,\u201d he said. \u201cSo because it\u2019s that hard we really try to uplift one another whenever we can and when we won it, a lot of guys reached out if not everybody, and said congratulations in some way shape or form. It was great.\u201d<\/p>\n
FAMILY TIES<\/p>\n
Miles McBride said the Knicks\u2019 title run is bringing estranged families together \u2014 for better or worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have people coming to me and saying, \u2018I haven\u2019t talked to my family member in 10 years,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018Well, we should not be the reason that\u2019s happening,’\u201d McBride joked on Wednesday. \u201cBut, you know, that\u2019s cool to hear. Like I said, it\u2019s not what I want to hear, necessarily, but those are cool moments to hear that what we\u2019re doing on the court was able to bring people back together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI haven\u2019t watched it all back in full, no. I\u2019ve seen little clips.\u201d Landry Shamet doesn\u2019t need the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,4988,3357,100114,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":["post-847855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-landry-shamet","tag-mike-brown","tag-mile-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117362397262813058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847855","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=847855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}