It’s official: Mikal Bridges played 83 games during this regular season which only has 82. Transferred in February from Phoenix to Brooklyn, the difference in schedule between the two teams will have allowed this little curiosity. To validate the statistic and continue his series of 392 consecutive games played, he only walked the floor… four seconds.
One in between, a little mistake and then it’s gone. Here is the complete description and without any forgetting of the match of Mikal Bridges this evening. For the last regular evening, the new star of the Nets offered the bare necessities so that the NBA validates his presence at his game. But why didn’t he play? It would have been faster. Yes, that’s for sure, but Brooklyn Bridges needed to be present on the field to validate two rather singular statistics.
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Mikal Bridges fouls following 4 SECONDS OF PLAY and is out for the rest of the game.
He therefore extends his personal series (392 games without absence) and joins the club of players at 83 games over a season. pic.twitter.com/hH39RbabaE
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The first one ? 83 regular season games played… in a single regular season. Who only has 82 games. Before him, only 40 players in history have also validated the stat. A small curiosity, amusing but which nevertheless denotes the regularity of the man. And that takes us straight to the second and much more impressive number of the evening: 392. The number of consecutive games played by Bridges in the NBA. Basically, the guy hasn’t missed a single game night since his Draft in 2018.
Proof if necessary of his exceptional physical constancy. And his interesting level, since he was able to impose himself and develop his game according to the needs in Phoenix. The arrival in Brooklyn was for him the individual liberation. Leader of the team, he proposes 27 points at 48% shooting success including 39% at 3-pointers, with 90% in free throws since arriving in the Big Apple. From now on, it’s a week of good big sleeps and physical preparation to face the Sixers in a series that promises to be exciting no matter what.
Source : ESPN
