Per the NY Put up:
After one other experience on the wrestle bus for Mikal Bridges on Friday afternoon — which included the guard being benched for many of the fourth quarter of a nip-and-tuck Knicks victory — he pledged, “I’ll be higher” as teammates and coach forcefully went to bat for the embattled guard.
“I’m not fearful about [Bridges],” Josh Hart stated. “I feel the media and individuals are killing him. He’s in a brand new state of affairs. He’s in a state of affairs the place he’s performed 19 video games in a unique position that he’s performed the final 4 years. So it’s our job to get him going. And all the opposite BS about what we gave up [the five first-round picks to the Nets], it means nothing.
“If we win, if we get a championship, ain’t no person give a rattling about what number of picks we gave up. We might’ve given up 15 picks, it don’t matter. On the finish of the day, we’re making an attempt to win a championship. He’s going to be a key piece of that.”