Season stats: 2025-26. Updated 22 d ago.
Dante Brings Size Off the Bench as Knicks Open Camp Healthy
Knicks Nightly Desk · 3 h agoN'Faly Dante joins the Knicks after four games with Atlanta last season, a limited look at a 6-11 center who barely left the bench. He is not on the injury report as the 2026-27 season approaches, and camp will decide how much of a role he gets behind the frontcourt rotation.
Getting to Know Dante
N'Faly Dante is a 6-11, 230-pound center out of Oregon, now in his third pro season and wearing No. 12 for New York. He is 24 years old and joins the Knicks after spending last season with Atlanta. Dante's game is built around size and length in the paint, but his NBA sample so far has been small. He played only four games last season, all off the bench, and never logged more than nine minutes in any of them. The Knicks will use camp and preseason to figure out where he fits in a crowded frontcourt picture heading into 2026-27.
Last Season by the Numbers
Dante's 2025-26 season was brief: four games with Atlanta, averaging 3.9 minutes a night. The counting stats were modest across the board — 0.8 points, 1.8 rebounds, no assists, 0.5 steals and no blocks per game. He shot 25.0 percent from the field and made his only free throw, finishing with a true shooting mark of 33.8 percent. His usage rate sat at 11.9 percent in that limited run, and his plus-minus was a modest positive 2.5. Small minutes make it hard to draw firm conclusions, but the raw numbers show a player who did not see extended run last season.
Game Logs That Tell the Story
Dante's four appearances last season paint a picture of spot minutes. On October 24 against Orlando, he played 3.7 minutes in a win, grabbing three rebounds without scoring. The next outing, October 25 against Oklahoma City, was his heaviest workload of the stretch: 8.7 minutes, four rebounds and one point in a loss. On October 31 against Indiana, he logged just 1.4 minutes in a win, scoring two points. His final look came November 8 against the Lakers, a win in which he played 1.7 minutes and did not register a stat beyond a plus-2 on the floor. None of those four games gave him more than nine minutes.
Health Report
Dante is not on the injury report. There is no injury history to note for him. That clean bill of health matters for a big man whose path to minutes will depend on availability as much as production, especially with training camp and the preseason schedule ahead. For now, the Knicks can plan around him as a healthy body in the frontcourt rotation without any lingering physical concerns to monitor.
What's Ahead
With the 2026-27 season approaching, Dante arrives in New York looking to build on a last season that gave him almost no runway. Four games and under four minutes a night with Atlanta is not much of a track record, but he is healthy and has a fresh opportunity with a new team. How much he plays will come down to how the Knicks sort out their center minutes in camp and the preseason. The season opener will be the first real test of whether Dante can carve out a bigger role than the one he had last season.
Questions fans ask
What team did N'Faly Dante play for last season?
He played for Atlanta in 2025-26 before joining the Knicks.
Is N'Faly Dante injured?
No, he is not on the injury report and has no injury history listed.
How many games did Dante play last season?
He played four games last season, all with Atlanta, averaging 3.9 minutes per game.
What are Dante's career stats so far?
In his four games last season he averaged 0.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 0.5 steals in 3.9 minutes, shooting 25.0 percent from the field.
What position does Dante play and how tall is he?
Dante is a 6-11, 230-pound center.
What number does Dante wear for the Knicks?
He wears No. 12.
Shot map
2025-26 · every field-goal attempt from the play-by-play| Zone | FGA | Share | FG% | League | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restricted area | 2 | 50% | 50.0% | 66.9% | — |
| Paint (non-RA) | 1 | 25% | 0.0% | 44.3% | — |
| Mid-range | 1 | 25% | 0.0% | 41.6% | — |
| Corner 3 | 0 | 0% | — | 38.5% | — |
| Above the break 3 | 0 | 0% | — | 35.0% | — |
Zones from the shot coordinates: restricted area within 4 ft, paint inside the lane, mid-range for the other twos, corner threes below the break (22 ft), the rest above the break (23.75 ft). League column is every shot of 2025-26. Δ shown from 10 attempts.