{"id":754345,"date":"2026-06-23T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754345\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:00:14","slug":"knicks-retain-nba-champion-big-man-to-a-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754345\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks retain NBA champion big man to a new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamen Diawara returns to the NBA champion New York Knicks with a brand-new deal<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Diawara will sign a multiyear, $10-plus million deal to return to the New York Knicks, per Shams Charania of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"article-widget__photo\" href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/players\/35895-mohamed-diawara.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-452388-plsm.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamed  Diawara\"\/><br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Position<br \/>\n                SF\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Age<br \/>\n                21\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Height<br \/>\n                206 cm\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Weight<br \/>\n                102 kg\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Birth place<br \/>\n                Paris, France\n            <\/p>\n<p>Diawara, a restricted free agent, will rejoin the reigning NBA champions on a brand-new contract.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2069182821327905253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">  Mohamed Diawara rejoins Knicks on a new deal <\/p>\n<p>The 51st pick of last year&#8217;s NBA Draft, Mohamen Diawara served as one of the bench supports of the New York Knicks&#8217; title season.<\/p>\n<p>He played in 69 in all of New York&#8217;s 82 regular-season games, averaging 3.6 points and 1.4 rebounds in 9.2 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IanBegley\/status\/2069184847772360846?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ian Begley of SNY<\/a>, Diawara was poised to earn significant interest from other teams in the league market. But the welcoming presence the French forward felt in New York since the start served as a key advantage for this eventual new deal hammered out by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh from their championship-winning rally last NBA Playoffs, retaining Diawara served as the first move utilized by the Knicks in this important 2026 offseason.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_2\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Subscribe to BN+ and get access to exclusive content.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamen Diawara returns to the NBA champion New York Knicks with a brand-new deal Mohamed Diawara will sign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-754345","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\/754345","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=754345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}