Mikal Bridges plays 23 seconds, extends NBA's longest active streak to 638 consecutive games
NEW YORK (AP) — Mikal Bridges had another short night to extend the NBA's longest active streak of consecutive games played, logging 23 seconds in the New York Knicks' game against Charlotte on Sunday. That made it 638 consecutive games for Bridges , who has never missed one in his pro career. He recently moved past Andre Miller for the eighth-longest streak in NBA history.
Bridges was the only Knicks starter to play with the team locked into the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference. Coach Mike Brown said he would only allow the guard to play long enough to extend the streak, and reserve Jordan Clarkson was already walking to the scorer's table to replace him even before the opening jump ball.
The Knicks won the tip and had the first possession. As soon as they ran back on defense, Bridges committed a foul to stop play and he was removed. Five NBA players had streaks of more than 700 games, led by A.
C. Green’s 1,192. “It’s crazy because load management is a real term,” Brown said before the game.
“And that’s something that’s thought of by everybody, not just the medical performance group but by coaches, by individual players, by agents, by family members, and people get pushed to take time off for whatever reason. And so for a guy like that to be at the number he’s at in consecutive games played speaks volumes. ” The NBA Cup final that the Knicks won doesn’t count in the statistics, otherwise Bridges would have been credited with playing 83 games in an 82-game season for the second time in four years.