Landry Shamet

BIOGRAPHY

Landry Michael Shamet was born on March 13, 1997 in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a shooting guard in the NBA.

Shamet played college basketball for the Wichita State Shockers. The shooting guard played just three games in his redshirt freshman year and attended Park Hill High School in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was a student in the Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) college preparatory program.

Shamet played three games in his freshman season before having to redshirt the season due to a foot injury. In January 2017, he became the point guard for the Shockers. In his redshirt freshman season, Shamet averaged 11.4 points and 3.3 assists per game. He was named to the First team MVC All-Conference and MVC Freshman of the Year. Following the season Shamet had surgery to repair a stress fracture on his foot.

Coming into his sophomore year, Shamet was named to the Preseason First Team All-AAC and was one of fifty players named in the Preseason Wooden Award watch list. He was one of only two sophomores to be selected for the 2018 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list. Shamet scored a career-high 30 points to help Wichita State beat Oklahoma State 78-66 on December 9, 2017. Shamet led the AAC in several categories, including assists per game, true shooting percentage, and offensive box plus/minus. He averaged 14.9 points and 5.2 assists per game as a sophomore. Following the season he declared for the 2018 NBA draft.

In the 2018 NBA draft, Shamet was picked by the Philadelphia 76ers. On February 6, 2019, Shamet was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. On November 19, 2020, Shamet was traded to the Brooklyn Nets in a three-team trade.