Mikal Bridges is unbreakable! Present in the NBA for five seasons, the winger now at the Nets has never missed a game! 100% of matches played, that’s not common these days.
We’re leaving on a special Iron Man paper today with Mikal Bridges! Iron Man, the movie with Tony Stark? Nothing to do, it’s the name we give to players who never miss a match. Never injured, never suspended, never even sick or so maybe they were but still playing. In short, guys who only know seasons with 82 games or almost. Mikal Bridges clearly falls into this category. Drafted in 2018, the winger released from Villanova has so far never missed a match in the Great League!
Mikal Bridges has yet to miss a game in his basketball career.
He’s currently on track to play 83 games this season ???? pic.twitter.com/S8c4bf2lsE
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) April 2, 2023
A pretty incredible accomplishment, especially given the circumstances. No injury, no illness, not even COVID and that damn health protocol to stop it. He only missed one game, it was when he was transferred, but it was due to the delay in the papers, which meant that he was ineligible and the League did not stop his series. You could say it’s a fluke but if you look a little further back, you see that the guy never missed a game in college either. 3 seasons with the Wildcats and still in uniform! The last time he was unavailable for a game was in high school and he was sick.
By playing the last three games of the season, he could join a prestigious club, that of players who have played 83 games in an NBA season. According ESPN, they are only 41 to have exceeded the number of regulation games of an NBA season. The last was Josh Smith in 2014-15. The all-time record over a season belongs to Walt Bellamy, who had played… 88 games in the 1968-1969 season.
The question now is how far he can take his series. Currently, he is at 388 consecutive games. What to get an NBA record? It’s not won because it will be necessary to dislodge AC Green and its 1192 games in a row! You read correctly, the former Lakers player did not miss a game between 1986 and 2001! Pardon ?! A madness that will be difficult to match even if Bridges starts on an excellent basis. He must now play the next ten seasons in full to match the original Iron Man. Good luck !
Source texte : ESPN / Legion Hoops