It’s Villanova night at The Garden Wednesday. Mikal Bridges is becoming — if he already isn’t — the face of the franchise in Brooklyn and Josh Hart and Jalen Brunson have delivered the goods for the Knicks. All three were on the Wildcats’ national championship team in 2016 and Bridges and Brunson earned a repeat two years later.
Now, of course, they are going to be on opposite sides as the Nets try to win the season series and gain an advantage in playoff seeding over the Knicks.
As Bridges told Steve Serby of the Post, that Philly connection is never far away.