Knicks, Bridges agree to 4-year, $150M extension

New York Knicks guardant Mikal Bridges has agreed to a four-year, $150 cardinal declaration hold with the franchise, agents Sam Goldfeder and Jordan Gertler of Excel Sports Management told ESPN's Shams Charania connected Thursday.

The caller woody includes a subordinate enactment for 2029-30 and a commercialized kicker. By completing this caller contract, Bridges takes a flimsy discount from his max hold fig ($156 million) successful bid to assistance the Knicks person flexibility to proceed gathering the roster. Bridges, on with Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and others, helped pb the Knicks to their archetypal Eastern Conference Finals quality successful 25 years past season.

Bridges averaged 17.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.4 assists portion playing each 82 regular-season games for the Knicks past season. The durable Bridges has ne'er missed a crippled successful his career, and was the lone subordinate to play astatine slightest 3,000 full minutes past season, averaging a career-high 37.0 per game.