Team: New York Knicks · Status: standard contract · Position: SG · Season age: 34 · Experience: entering 13th NBA season · Role: contingent bench scorer · As of: 2026-07-18
2026-27 median projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 10.0 | .445 | .825 | 0.6 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
His neutral healthy allocation is five minutes, while 10 MPG per appearance reflects nights when the rotation needs scoring or is missing a guard. Nine-cat: outside top 300. Points: D. Dynasty: 1.5/10.
Role and evidence
Clarkson averaged 8.6 points, 1.8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.0 three, and 0.9 turnovers in 17.8 minutes across 72 games in 2025-26, shooting .451/.830 (Hashtag Basketball). That role already represented a major fall from his peak sixth-man volume.
New York brought him back on a reported one-year deal in the NBA's 2026 offseason transaction tracker. McBride, Alvarado, and Shamet have clearer two-way or spacing functions, so Clarkson's minutes are most likely to arrive through injury, rest, or a bench unit needing self-created shots.
Role branches
- Ceiling: a multi-week guard absence restores 20 minutes and 10-12 points with two threes.
- Median: spot scorer and healthy-night 10th/11th man.
- Floor: frequent DNP-CDs and a midseason roster move.
Market and confidence
Hashtag ranked Clarkson 391st in analyst dynasty and 615th on the keeper crowd board. Contract status is high confidence; rotation minutes are low; scoring rate medium; defensive categories low.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Tulsa 2010-11 (11.5 PPG) and 2011-12 (16.5 PPG, first-team All-Conference USA); transferred to Missouri, sat out 2012-13, then 17.5 PPG/3.8 RPG/3.4 APG in 2013-14 (second-team All-SEC). Draft: 2014, round 2, pick 46, Washington Wizards; sold to the Lakers on draft night.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-15 | 22 | LAL | 59 | 25.0 | 11.9 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | .448 | .829 | 1.6 |
| 2015-16 | 23 | LAL | 79 | 32.3 | 15.5 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.4 | .433 | .804 | 1.7 |
| 2016-17 | 24 | LAL | 82 | 29.2 | 14.7 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.4 | .445 | .798 | 2.0 |
| 2017-18 | 25 | LAL/CLE | 81 | 23.4 | 13.9 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.4 | .451 | .800 | 1.6 |
| 2018-19 | 26 | CLE | 81 | 27.3 | 16.8 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.8 | .448 | .844 | 1.7 |
| 2019-20 | 27 | CLE/UTA | 71 | 24.0 | 15.2 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 2.1 | .454 | .836 | 1.4 |
| 2020-21 | 28 | UTA | 68 | 26.7 | 18.4 | 4.0 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 3.1 | .425 | .896 | 1.7 |
| 2021-22 | 29 | UTA | 79 | 27.1 | 16.0 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.4 | .419 | .828 | 1.6 |
| 2022-23 | 30 | UTA | 61 | 32.6 | 20.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 2.5 | .444 | .816 | 3.0 |
| 2023-24 | 31 | UTA | 55 | 30.6 | 17.1 | 3.4 | 5.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.7 | .413 | .881 | 2.7 |
| 2024-25 | 32 | UTA | 37 | 26.0 | 16.2 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.3 | .408 | .797 | 2.3 |
| 2025-26 | 33 | NYK | 72 | 17.8 | 8.6 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.0 | .451 | .830 | 0.9 |
| Career | 825 | 26.8 | 15.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.8 | .437 | .829 | 1.8 |
Durability: Iron-man early (82 games in 2016-17, 81 twice), eroding in Utah: 61, 55, then 37 in 2024-25, when plantar fasciitis in his left foot required a procedure that ended his season in March 2025. Bounced back to 72 games in a light 17.8-minute role for the Knicks in 2025-26.
Trajectory: Twelve seasons as one archetype — the microwave bench scorer, peaking with the 2021 Sixth Man of the Year award and a 20.8 PPG pseudo-starter year in 2022-23. The 2025-26 Knicks season cut his usage roughly in half from his Utah norms, but the rates survived intact (.451 FG, .830 FT, 1.0 threes in 17.8 minutes), and he won a ring in the role. At 34 he competes with McBride, Alvarado and Shamet for New York's discretionary bench-scoring minutes on a one-year return. He becomes fantasy-relevant only during a multi-week Knicks guard absence, when 20+ minutes would restore a 10-12 point, two-three line with strong FT% — a points-league stream, not a nine-cat asset.
Career sources: StatMuse career by season · StatMuse career averages · Wikipedia
Open questions
- Is Clarkson inside Brown's opening-night rotation?
- Would New York retain him all season if Nickel, Kayil, or another young guard emerges?