Mikal Bridges

Mikal Bridges
	Bridges with the Brooklyn Nets in 2023
No. 1 – Brooklyn Nets
Position	Shooting guard / small forward
League	NBA
Personal information
Born	August 30, 1996; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	209 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school	Great Valley; (Malvern, Pennsylvania)
College	Villanova (2014–2018)
NBA draft	2018: 1st round, 10th overall pick
	Selected by the Philadelphia 76ers
Playing career	2018–present
Career history
2018–2023	Phoenix Suns
2023–present	Brooklyn Nets
Career highlights and awards
	NBA All-Defensive First Team (2022); 2× NCAA champion (2016, 2018); Third-team All-American – AP, SN, NABC (2018); Julius Erving Award (2018); First-team All-Big East (2018); Second-team All-Big East (2017); Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year (2017); Big East tournament MVP (2018);
	Stats at NBA.com
	Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Mikal Bridges (/mɪˈkɛl/ mih-KEL; born August 30, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats, winning national championships in 2016 and 2018. Bridges was selected with the tenth overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2018 NBA draft before being traded to the Phoenix Suns on draft night, where he was a part of the team that reached the 2021 NBA Finals. Nicknamed “the Warden”, Bridges holds the active record for the most consecutive games played, having not missed a game in his NBA career since being drafted.

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