{"id":61402,"date":"2025-12-05T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:00:07","slug":"one-knicks-change-unlocked-everything-for-mikal-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/61402\/","title":{"rendered":"One Knicks change unlocked everything for Mikal Bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was a season of moments for Mikal Bridges. So far, his second season with the Knicks has delivered all-around consistency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Jalen Brunson, it has been Bridges \u2014 not Karl-Anthony Towns or OG Anunoby \u2014 who has clearly been the Knicks\u2019 most important piece this year. The numbers jump off the page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He leads the team in win shares at 3.2, per Basketball Reference. Entering Thursday, that ranked fifth in the entire NBA, behind only Nikola Jokic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jimmy Butler and Tyrese Maxey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is shooting 53.7 percent from the field, which would be the second-best mark of his career and best since the 2020-21 season with the Suns. He\u2019s shooting a stellar 43.3 percent from 3-point range, which would be the best of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year was a season of moments for Mikal Bridges. So far, his second season with the Knicks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14063,21,9,11,1104,10,319,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-61402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mikal-bridges","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61402","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=61402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}