{"id":112909,"date":"2025-09-01T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112909\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:18:07","slug":"knicks-weigh-multiple-options-for-final-roster-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112909\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks weigh multiple options for final roster spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Knicks will have the same core players for the 2025-26 season, but will be led by a new name as they continue to pursue the team’s first NBA Finals appearance since 1999.<\/p>\n

After firing head coach Tom Thibodeau this offseason, the Knicks agreed to terms with longtime NBA coach Mike Brown. He’ll now be the lead man for New York moving forward.<\/p>\n

With the core stars in Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns, New York still has a roster spot to fill as the NBA season gets closer to its start.<\/p>\n

Knicks linked to Landry Shamet, Seth Curry, and Alec Burks to fill veteran spot<\/p>\n

New York still has the opportunity to sign a proven player to a veteran-minimum contract. The Athletic’s James L. Edwards III believes<\/a> that several players could be a fit, including Landry Shamet, Seth Curry, and Alec Burks.<\/p>\n

Shamet, 28, played for the Knicks last season and has already built chemistry with the squad. In 50 appearances last season, he averaged 15.2 minutes per game while shooting 46.1% from the field and 39.7% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

Curry, 35, has experience adjusting to new teams often. He’s played for nine different franchises in his career and, like his brother Stephen, has always been a reliable guard who can shoot from anywhere on the court. In 2024-25, he shot 47.8% from the field and 45.6% from three,<\/p>\n

Burks, 34, like the other veterans mentioned, has also played for numerous teams in his 14-year career. Most recently with the Miami Heat, Burks was just as consistent a scorer as Shamet and Curry, finishing last season with shooting percentages of 42.4% from the field and 42.5% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

If the Knicks chose between these three players, it would just be a matter of which player the new head coach, Mike Brown, would trust the most.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks will have the same core players for the 2025-26 season, but will be led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-112909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}