{"id":716963,"date":"2026-04-24T04:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:30:15","slug":"mikal-bridges-is-pulling-the-knicks-with-him-toward-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/716963\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikal Bridges is pulling the Knicks with him toward rock bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 I\u2019ll take the layup Mikal Bridges refuses to attempt. It\u2019s the easy column, the drive and swish after the equivalent of a handful of draft picks is benched.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges started <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/23\/sports\/knicks-lose-another-heartbreaker-to-hawks-to-fall-into-nba-playoffs-hole\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday\u2019s 109-108 Game 3 defeat<\/a> at the hands of the Hawks. He took a few shots. Bricked them. Lost all confidence. And poof \u2026 Bridges disappeared faster than five first-round picks.<\/p>\n<p>James Dolan, sitting courtside at State Farm Arena, must\u2019ve been wondering of Leon Rose, \u201cIs this why you were stashing all that draft capital.\u201d Or, maybe, \u201cThis is who we still owe $150 million?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bridges, after all, was a wreck. He appeared as if bereft of confidence, devoid of ability to perform offensively. He finished with no points, four turnovers and the decisiveness of a deer in headlights. The Knicks were outscored by 26 points in Bridges\u2019 21 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 I\u2019ll take the layup Mikal Bridges refuses to attempt. It\u2019s the easy column, the drive and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[208,7,304,1260,6,11,56381,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-716963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-mikal-bridges","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116457807801237969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}