a four-year, $24 million deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/nba-eastern-conference-finals-game-128264934.jpg\")
Knicks guard Landry Shamet celebrates after hitting a 3-point shot in overtime against the Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n
Now, going back to Nov. 12. Across the next seven-plus months, Shamet\u2019s entire career trajectory would change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before that breakout against the Heat, he was barely hanging on in the league. He signed a nonguaranteed, veteran minimum deal to return for a second year with the Knicks. It wasn\u2019t even guaranteed he would make the roster out of training camp \u2014 Malcolm Brogdon\u2019s unexpected retirement paved the way for his spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And just three games later, Shamet dislocated his shoulder, the same one on his right, shooting side, as the year prior in a game against the Magic. He had a decision: Undergo surgery, which would have ended his season, or try to rehab it and return later in the year. The latter option required trust in the Knicks, who could have simply cut him and his nonguaranteed contract and signed someone who could come in and play right away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shamet and the Knicks agreed that he\u2019d rehab it with the goal of returning later in the year, a prescient sign of faith between the two sides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until Jan. 15 that he returned. But across the next 36 games, he averaged 9.3 points on 38.1 percent shooting from 3-point range, cementing himself as an important part of the rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But his shooting waned down the stretch of the postseason, and he went just 2-for-8 across the first five games of the first round of the playoffs. He had effectively been replaced in coach Mike Brown\u2019s rotation by Jose Alvarado. All of a sudden, Shamet was on the outside looking in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No problem. He didn\u2019t complain or waver. He just waited for another opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Across the final 14 postseason games, he shot 50.9 percent from deep. His game-tying trey down the stretch of the epic comeback in Game 1 of the conference finals will live in Knicks lore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And, now, he returns to the team he won his first championship with. He wanted to return to the Knicks even after a rough first season. He maintained that belief during an injury that threw his future in doubt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even now, he probably could have gotten more money elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the Knicks \u2014 and their faith in him \u2014 rejuvenated his career. He played a pivotal role in their title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKnicks fans are a specific species of human that should be studied,\u201d Shamet said. \u201cThey\u2019re crazy. They\u2019re crazy. \u2026 Everywhere you walk in the city, that\u2019s what you hear. The buzz is unbelievable. You could try and explain what\u2019s going on in New York right now for Knicks fans but good luck. It\u2019s different. Knicks fans are different.\u201d<\/p>\n
This relationship itself is different. And this marriage is set to continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flash back to November.\u00a0 Landry Shamet was coming off a rocky first year with the Knicks, when a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7046,21,22612,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":["post-283191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-landry-shamet","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}