{"id":226174,"date":"2025-10-19T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226174\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:27:04","slug":"new-york-knicks-waive-three-players-ahead-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/226174\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Knicks waive three players ahead of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\">The New York Knicks made a firm cut before the season: center <a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/?s=alex+len\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Len<\/a>, shooting guard Garrison Mathews and forward Matt Ryan were waived and removed from the roster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"404\">That opened the final roster spot, and according to New York media veteran <a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/?s=landry+shamet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Landry Shamet<\/a> won the last seat \u2014 his shooting and instant plug-and-play value earned the staff\u2019s trust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"406\" data-end=\"770\">Len brings twelve NBA seasons, a steady backup-center role and career marks of 6.7 points and 5.3 boards \u2014 but the Knicks pivot to a different profile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"406\" data-end=\"770\">Mathews was a useful bench spark, averaging 7\u20138 points with a stable three, yet keeping two veteran shooters without guaranteed rotation was labeled a luxury. Ryan logged marginal minutes and was a realistic cut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"1003\">This reset frees cap breathing room and allows autumn flexibility: the Knicks preserve maneuver space for another shooter, a two-way wing or a potential trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/link\/betlabel_bonus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/betlabel-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148540\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"75\" data-end=\"307\">Only on Basketball Sphere can you follow <a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free analyses and betting tips<\/a> for all the top basketball competitions \u2014 including the:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"404\">This season, we\u2019ve added a wide range of special betting features to our portal, such as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"656\" data-is-only-node=\"\">A brand-new feature this year is our <a href=\"https:\/\/basketballsphere.com\/en\/category\/picks\/numbers-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Numbers Game<\/a>, tracking all the hottest trends in European basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks made a firm cut before the season: center Alex Len, shooting guard Garrison Mathews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-226174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226174","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=226174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}