The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy previously reported<\/a>, but his sudden decision paved the way for Shamet to return for a second season with the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\nNew York Knicks guard Landry Shamet (44) lines up a shot during the first half when the New York Knicks played the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at Madison Square Garden. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
Mathews did not play in Friday\u2019s 113-108 win over the Hornets at Madison Square Garden in the preseason finale. Shamet played 20 minutes and finished with 11 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a competitive camp and I\u2019ll tell you what, everybody that we\u2019ve had in here deserves to be on the team, so it\u2019s gonna be tough for us,\u201d coach Mike Brown said after Friday\u2019s game. \u201cBut we\u2019ll make the decision because we have to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Knicks have not yet formally signed Mohamed Diawara, whom they drafted in the second round in June. He remains on his Exhibit-10 deal. The Knicks can carry 13 players for two weeks into the season before they have to reach the 14-player roster minimum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Guard Garrison Mathews takes a foul shot. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Shamet, after missing the beginning of last year due to a shoulder injury, averaged 5.7 points on 39.7 percent shooting from 3-point range in 50 regular-season games last year. He also earned a larger role toward the end of the postseason last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Both he and Mathews are strong 3-point shooters, but Shamet\u2019s defense and experience gave him the edge. Without Brogdon, there will be more onus on Miles McBride and Tyler Kolek to man the point guard spot when Brunson is on the bench since Shamet is much more of a shooting guard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beyond Mathews, the Knicks waived Alex Len and Matt Ryan. Tosan Evbuomwan, Kevin McCullar Jr. and Trey Jemison III will remain on their two-way contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Knicks forward Mohamed Diawara driving to the basket in the second half. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Diawara had been viewed more as a project with the option of being stashed when he was drafted, but he impressed during training camp and the preseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is the possibility the Knicks still make an unexpected cut \u2014 Shamet or someone else \u2014 and start the season with 13 players before later re-signing that player. They have two weeks to do that, which would provide cap space if they want to sign somebody later on in the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Landry Shamet won the biggest Knicks roster battle.\u00a0 He earned the last roster spot, as the Knicks cut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,16113,590,1666,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-223850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-landry-shamet","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223850","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=223850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}