Newly drafted New York Knicks freshman Mikal Bridges was very sociable as he welcomed certainly one of his fellow freshmen to Manhattan.
When ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski introduced the metropolitan arrival of Landry Shamet, Bridges greeted his former Phoenix Suns teammate with a tacky nickname on his Instagram Story, leaving solely a cheese emoji on a publish of the announcement (h/t New York Basketball on X). Shamet personally credited Bridges with developing with the title in December 2021. (h/t Gerald Bourguet of PHNX Sports activities).
Mikal Bridges on IG with new Knicks participant Landry Shamet: “🧀”
Bridges’ nickname for his former Suns teammate Shamet is “Sham and Cheese.” pic.twitter.com/HffCAb92u7
— New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) September 14, 2024
Savvy Suns followers will possible respect the callback, as Bridges referenced Shamet’s humorous nickname from his desert days. The earlier two elements of two seasons with the Suns, the primary ending within the 2021 NBA Finals, produced Phoenix’s first Western Convention title since 1993.
Though that title showdown led to heartbreaking style (the Suns misplaced in six video games to a Milwaukee Bucks staff with Donte DiVincenzo injured), the Knicks placed on one thing of a reunion present by buying three gamers from that sequence, with Cameron Payne having beforehand joined Bridges and Shamet. One other former desert dweller, Keita Bates-Diop, was acquired within the commerce that introduced Bridges from the Brooklyn Nets, however he was nonetheless stationed in San Antonio through the Suns’ sequence.
Shamet is predicted to be a shooter off the bench, rating eleventh in three-point taking pictures proportion (44.2 p.c) en path to second-team All-Rookie honors in 2018-19, which noticed him traded from Philadelphia to the Los Angeles Clippers after the previous drafted him twenty sixth total. Shamet has since performed for 3 completely different groups, spending final 12 months with the Washington Wizards.
Shamet additionally posted on his Instagram Story a photograph of the Freedom Tower, positioned simply over three miles from his new basketball residence at Madison Sq. Backyard, in Decrease Manhattan, with the caption “Go Knicks.”
