No one knows better than Jay Wright how fortunate Jacque Vaughn and the Brooklyn Nets are to call Mikal Bridges one of their own.
“He would torture Josh Hart in practice with his length,” Wright said. “And then, if he had a breakaway or something, Josh Hart would just take him out, clobber him, knock him to the floor. And he’d always bounce back up, never a problem. Those two used to go at it all the time. Great respect for each other, but Mikal was a skinny little guy, Josh was at the time like physically mature, tough. A guy that was a year older than him. But he always had the skill level.
“He recognizes that that’s what this team needs, and he’s very comfortable doing it,” Wright said. “And he does throughout his career when his team needs it, but he’s always been on good teams. So his teams didn’t need him to be the leading scorer.”Jay Wright always reminds Mikal Bridges to not “let the NBA change your beautiful basketball mind.”“We were playing in the Bahamas in that big tournament, we were down to Clemson at halftime like 14, and he took over the second half,” Wright recalled.
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