{"id":23912,"date":"2025-10-31T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23912\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:53:05","slug":"now-four-games-into-year-2-in-manhattan-mikal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23912\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, four games into Year 2 in Manhattan, Mikal \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, four games into Year 2 in Manhattan, Mikal \u2026<a class=\"gnt_bc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HoopsHype<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now, four games into Year 2 in Manhattan, Mikal Bridges has started the season as well as anyone could hope. He\u2019s shooting the ball at a high level from all over the 3-point line. Last season, his 3s only fell from the corner. He\u2019s defending with the physicality and smarts that made the Knicks trade a handful of draft picks for him, which wasn\u2019t always the case last season. He\u2019s traded in some of his mid-range shots for layups and free throws. All while doing that in a Mike Brown system that appears tailor-made for Bridges\u2019 style, he\u2019s still offering a helping hand and comforting voice. Only this time around, he\u2019s sharing the floor with the youngsters he helped prepare behind the scenes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6759966\/2025\/10\/31\/knicks-mikal-bridges-veteran-leadership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cYou can see that when he was a younger guy in the league that he had those vets, too,\u201d Tyler Kolek said. \u201cThey built a culture of brotherhood. You don\u2019t see that every day in the NBA nowadays.<\/a> (Mikal) was so welcoming and teaching us the little things, and not just the basketball stuff. He shows us how to move, how to be a man and be an actual professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6759966\/2025\/10\/31\/knicks-mikal-bridges-veteran-leadership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on New York Times\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 www.hoopshype.com. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761911585_40_p\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, four games into Year 2 in Manhattan, Mikal \u2026 HoopsHype Now, four games into Year 2 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[679,75,84,83,9,24,63,15480,15481,4503,15482,5545,15483,950,4500,4499,15485,1328,949,15484,682],"class_list":["post-23912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-accessfree","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sstssportsnbarumors","tag-sstsnnba-rumors","tag-tagbasketball","tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","tag-tagmanhattan","tag-tagmikal-bridges","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnew-york-knicks","tag-tagnew-york-times-company","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtyler-kolek","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}