New York Knicks, Mikal Bridges agree to 4-year extension, per reports

The Knicks and forward Mikal Bridges have agreed to a four-year, $150 million contract keeping him in New York through 2029.

The New York Knicks and forward Mikal Bridges have agreed to a four-year, $150 million contract extension with the franchise, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.

Bridges, who just finished his first season in New York, will be under contract with the Knicks through 2029.

The new deal is expected to have a player option for the 2029-30 season and a trade kicker. The monetary amount is just slightly less max extension number of $156 million.

Bridges has played and started in all 82 games over each of the past two years. He averaged 17.6 points, 3.7 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game during the 2025 season. 

New York Knicks forward Mikal Bridges reacts during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Indiana Pacers on May 29, 2025.

Bridges was traded to the Knicks by the Brooklyn Nets in July 2024 as part of a multi-player deal. Bridges spent more than four years in Phoenix before the Nets acquired him from the Suns in February 2023.

He was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team as a member of the Suns following the 2021-22 season.

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