Mikal Bridges can’t wait to be Tom Thibodeau’s Knicks iron man
NY Post
GWhat happens when the NBA’s iron man collides with the anti-load management coach?
Mikal Bridges is excited to find out.
“Who doesn’t want to play all the time?” Bridges said Tuesday in his introductory press conference at the Knicks training facility. “Just who [Tom Thibodeau] is, how he embodies and how structured he is, that’s what I came from: That’s high school, college, and with coach Monty [Williams in Phoenix] as well.”
Playing a lot is nothing new to Bridges.
He noted Saturday how in Phoenix, a championship contender at the time, the two-way wing once logged 50 minutes while “sick as a bat” and chasing Sacramento’s De’Aaron Fox.
“I was on a frickin’ chair after we won, laid out,” Bridges said, “and I think Monty didn’t think I was sick either, and he was like, ‘Look at him. That’s what we do.’ I’m like, ‘Let’s just get on this damn plane.’ ”
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.