Brooklyn Nets guard Mikal Bridges received two votes for the All-NBA third team, according to an announcement by the NBA on Wednesday. Through Bridges is listed as a guard, for the purposes of the voting, he was listed as a forward.
Bridges earned two total points (five points for a 1st-team vote, three points for a 2nd-team vote, and one point for a third-team vote) which placed him in the other forwards receiving votes category. Bridges received as many total points as DeMar DeRozan and had more total points than Paul George, Zach LaVine, and Tyrese Haliburton.
While Bridges wasn’t reasonably expected to make any of the three All-NBA teams, it isn’t for a lack of talent. The former Villanova Wildcat’s stats for the season (20.1 PPG, 4.4 RPG, and 3.3 APG) doesn’t scream All-NBA player, but his stats with the Nets are a different story. In Bridges’ 27 games with Brooklyn, he averaged 26.1 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game while shooting 47.5% from the field and 37.6% from three-point land.
If you took Bridges’ points per game figure and compared it to the rest of the league, he would have ranked 12th in the NBA. To combine that with his efficiency numbers and the fact that he was the leader of a Nets team that made it to the playoffs in spite of trading superstars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. This could mean big things for Bridges next season.
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