Bridges was one of 10 players to not miss a game this season - Houston’s Tari Eason and Kenyon Martin Jr., Chicago’s Nikola Vucevic and Patrick Williams, Boston’s Derrick White, Golden State teammates Kevon Looney and Jordan Poole, New York’s Isaiah Hartenstein and Sacramento’s Harrison Barnes also played in all 82 for their clubs this season. His last missed game was in high school.īridges is the first player to appear in 83 games in a season since Josh Smith in 2014-15. And it lived on in Sunday’s season finale because Bridges appeared for the first 4 seconds to extend the streak, then checked out for the day.īridges didn’t miss a game at Villanova, either. It’s quirky, since a season is 82 games, but the Nets had more games to play than the Suns did when the trade happened. Regardless, he still played in a league-best 83 games this season. BRIDGES’ STREAKīrooklyn’s Mikal Bridges technically missed a game this season, but his consecutive games-played streak - now 392 games and counting - lives on because he wasn’t eligible to play while the Nets were completing the process of acquiring him in a trade with the Phoenix Suns. He was five points shy that season of averaging exactly 30 per game. John Havlicek and Isaiah Thomas each averaged 28.9 in their best seasons in Boston, and Larry Bird averaged 29.9 in 1987-88, but Tatum is the first to average 30.īird technically averaged 29.93 points that season, and two more points would have given him 29.95, which many would have rounded up to 30.0. The forward averaged 30.1 points per game this season - the most ever by a Celtics player. When you’ve done something that’s never been done before in Boston Celtics history, that’s impressive.
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