Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> during the trophy presentation after the women’s final and figured his 6-foot-4 height would help get him something others might not.<\/p>\n\u201cBut that aside, his action photos are really tremendous,\u201d Pottheiser said. \u201cHe really is a student of photography here. He\u2019s asking amazing questions. He\u2019s frankly a great teammate. I\u2019m sure any New Yorker knows that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Shamet uses his own camera equipment, which he at first never imagined owning. Even though he enjoyed taking photos, he just used his phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy friend was like, \u2018You should get a camera,\u2019\u201d Shamet said. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018I\u2019m not going to use a camera. Who has cameras anymore? You just use your phone. Who needs a camera?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
But once he got one, he enjoyed taking it on road trips or just using it around the streets at home. Eventually, like fellow athletes such as baseball of Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson, and football’s Marshawn Lynch, he got good enough to get close to the action at sporting events.<\/p>\n
He’s now more of a tennis fan after being around the players and learning their stories. When he first came to the U.S. Open a few years ago as a fan, Shamet only knew the biggest names, such as Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. <\/p>\n
It was also easier to walk around back then. Shamet said he’s been recognized and stopped by quite a few fans this year after playing on the first Knicks team to reach the Eastern Conference finals since 2000.<\/p>\n
He’s been in New York and working out, hoping for a return to the Knicks. But wherever he ends up and whenever he finishes playing, he knows photography will be there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think since I picked the camera up I don\u2019t really foresee a day where I put it down,\u201d Shamet said. \u201cEven when we go on the road I always have a camera with me, just to have. So whether it\u2019s just like as a hobby, walking around, shooting stuff that I like to maybe print out and put on the wall in my house or doing things like this, it\u2019ll always be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
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AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By BRIAN MAHONEY NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Like most basketball players, Landry Shamet has been busy taking shots.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-126630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}