The stat is crazy, you probably know it, but the fact is that every night this figure increases: Mikal Bridges is a basketball marathoner. 555 matches played since the start of his career, and no missed matches. You read that right.
In the age of load management and in an era where Kawhi Leonard lives, it is almost an anachronism. Since Mikal Bridges’ Draft in 2018 (by the Sixers before being sent to Phoenix), the latter has played 100% of the matches for his respective franchises, with the Suns, the Nets or the Knicks. Mind-blowing.
Mikal Bridges has never missed a game in his NBA career ???? pic.twitter.com/mUMROPlZrU
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No curse here, we’ve already “tried” but it doesn’t work. Each season Mikal Bridges surfs above viruses and slaloms between sprains, seems to hold on to this performance and has undoubtedly already played when he could have taken a breather. Playing for Tom Thibodeau, who gives around 75 minutes of play per game to his leaders (another 43 last night in the win against the Sixers), may seem scary for his body but for the moment Mikal is holding on, and the number mounted. Another funny number? Michel Ponts had even played 83 matches, one more than the others, in 2023, due to his trade between Phoenix and Brooklyn, just to make this “invincibility” even more original.
To achieve AC Green’s all-time record, one of the most iconic in the League, it will nevertheless still take a little work. Indeed, the greatest Iron man in NBA history played… 1,192 games between 1986 and 1997, while collecting three rings with the Lakers along the way. His secret at the time? Sexual abstinence. The Mikal does what he wants with it, we just state the facts.
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