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Illustrated portrait of NBA player Mikal Bridges

Mikal Bridges

Mikal Bridges advanced stats and career rankings

RoleSF · Age 29
Availability82 games · 82 starts
Workload32.8 MPG · 2,692 minutes
Relative impactNYK #5 of 12 · SF #14 of 68
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceStrong

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #22–#311

Bottom line · 2025–26

Mikal Bridges delivered a strong 2025–26 campaign, ranking 88th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 96th, led by elite ball security. Playing about 2,700 minutes, he finished in the 88th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Mikal Bridges's impact

395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value

Impact Rate
78
69.4
Season Value
88
59.7

Scoring role

Usage
41
17.3%
True shooting
59
58.7%
3-point attempt rate
49
43.6%
Free-throw rate
8
10.2%

Creation and control

Assist rate
60
15.9%
Turnover avoidance
95
7.6%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
21
6.5%
Steal rate
75
2.0%
Block rate
75
2.4%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
72
+1.02
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
59
+0.42

Workload

Minutes per game
90
32.8
Games played
98
82
Total minutes
99
2,692

Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.

Every season

Mikal Bridges advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

SeasonTeamAgeGPMPEra-centered box impactImpact RateRate rankSeason ValueValue percentileEvidence
2025–26live modelNYK29822,692+1.5469.4#8859.788thStrong
2024–25NYK28823,036-0.9938.7#23961.862ndStrong
2023–24BRK27822,854+0.3864.9#131137.383rdStrong
2022–23BRK/PHO26832,963+1.4980.4#75211.491stStrong
2021–22PHO25822,854+0.3663.8#140140.185thStrong
2020–21PHO24722,348+2.2684.2#59202.592ndStrong
2019–20Historical Defense EstimatePHO23732,042+0.5864.2#127111.276thStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimatePHO22822,417-0.9047.0#19655.560thStrong

Career movement

Mikal Bridges's career impact by season

Peak +2.26 in 2020–21 · 8 seasons · 21,206 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutes
Across-era box estimateWorkload

Career comparison

Compare the shape, not the calendar

Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.

Mikal BridgesJosh Hart

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Mikal Bridges

The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.

Why this rank?

Why Mikal Bridges ranks #88

The current model starts with box production, checks it against multi-season lineup evidence, caps that correction, then accounts for how many minutes the player was trusted to play each game.

01 · Box-score prior+1.21

Prior rank #96

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.84

Current total +0.07 ±0.9
Split model · O +1.02 · D +0.42 = +1.44

03 · Bounded correction-0.08

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.13

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate69.4

69.4 unadjusted · 100% role factor · rank #88

RAPM estimates lineup impact while controlling for the other nine players on the floor. The multi-season blend, current total model, and current offensive/defensive split are separate estimates, so they need not equal one another. hussEyquation uses the multi-season signal as a bounded correction, not as a standalone verdict.

What the point estimate meansLow precision

The model's 80% impact interval is -1.11 to +3.40. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
12%
Top 50 chance
22%
Top 100 chance
39%
80% rank range
#22#311
How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →