Mikal Bridges keeps stacking games like they’re going out of style, and the next stop on that absurd run could put him in some rare company.
Bridges has now played 638 regular-season games and has never missed one in his NBA career. At 30 years old as of August 30, he already owns the eighth-longest consecutive-games streak in league history, and if he stays on the floor through the 2026-27 season, that number would climb to 720 and land him inside the top five all-time.
That’s not a small leap. With 33 more straight appearances, he would move past Artis Gilmore’s 670.
Forty-five more would get him by former Knicks great Harry Gallatin at 682. And if Bridges shows up for each of New York’s first 69 games in 2026-27, he’d also clear Dolph Schayes, who sits at 706.
His durability numbers get even more ridiculous when you widen the lens. Bridges is second all-time in games played without missing one to begin a career, though he won’t catch Red Kerr’s 844 straight games to open a career next season. That milestone would have to wait until a little past the midway point of the 2028-29 season.
There’s still a massive gap to the all-time ironman standard, too. A.C.
Green’s 1,192 consecutive games remains the mountain, with that streak running from 1986 to 2001. Bridges already moved ahead of Andre Miller late last season for the longest streak that began in 2000 or later, topping Miller’s 632-game run from 2003 to 2010.
And this streak didn’t start in the NBA. In three seasons at Villanova, Bridges played in all 116 possible games.
Last season, the big question around Bridges was whether he would justify the haul of picks the Knicks sent to the Nets to get him. The answer, as the source notes, was a resounding yes after New York won the championship.
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