Some players ease into a new year. Landry Shamet didn’t bother with the warmup act. Two clutch threes to close out a shaky night against a shorthanded Mavericks team and a 36-point eruption earlier in the week against Miami will do that. The Knicks signed him to be a steady rotational guard, not a spark plug who steals games. Yet here he is, providing a little bit of both.

On a roster full of bigger names and bigger contracts, Shamet is quietly becoming one of New York’s most reliable bargains.

A role player who understands the assignment

Shamet didn’t arrive with hype. He arrived with tape — and the Knicks liked what they saw. After bouncing around the league and carving out a journeyman’s living, he found something of a groove last season in New York, averaging 5.7 points on .461 shoo

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