The New York Knicks paid a king's ransom to add Mikal Bridges in the offseason, and the defensive play he made against the Chicago Bulls at the end of regulation of their Thursday night tilt shows just why they coveted him.
The Knicks and Bulls went back and forth for 48 minutes at Madison Square Garden, with New York tying the game at 104 on a Jalen Brunson bucket with 29 seconds remaining. Chicago opted to feed Nikola Vucevic on the ensuing possession, and Lonzo Ball found him with a perfect pass off the inbounds, in which he had what seemed like a mismatch on Bridges deep in the paint.
