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Mikal Bridges could follow Jalen Brunson’s lead with Knicks contract discount
By Zach Braziller,
9 hours ago
Mikal Bridges followed Jalen Brunson to the Knicks.
Now, will he also take less money like Brunson to remain on Broadway?
A report on Monday suggested that possibility — noting that Bridges will sign an extension leaving money on the table.
As soon as Oct. 1, the 6-foot-6 wing can sign an extension with the Knicks, or wait to ink a four-year deal after the season for as much as $156 million.
Bridges has two years left on his current contract worth just over $48 million.
Bridges was recently acquired by the Knicks in a stunning deal with the Nets for a bushel of draft picks to join his former Villanova teammates Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo with the Knicks.
Jalen Brunson signed a team-friendly Knicks extension. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
The deal frees up the Knicks to further improve their roster in the coming seasons.
Bridges seems thrilled to be a Knick.
“It’s surreal. Coming here, it makes me feel like a young kid again, with all the memories. When I think about basketball when I was young, and the old school, it was always the Knicks,” the 27-year-old wing said last week at his introductory press conference.
“That’s what you think about. MSG. The New York song. All that stuff.”
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