When Mikal Bridges was dealt to New York this past summer, the deal seemed too good to be true.
The Villanova kid had made the jump to a bonafide scoring option with the Brooklyn Nets. The Knicks, who had been accumulating draft picks for several years, finally went all in, cashing in their accumulated draft capital for an all-NBA defensive talent capable of scoring twenty points a game.
Of course, Bridges was college teammates at Nova with Brunson, Hart, and DiVincenzo, who was still part of the Knicks at the time of the deal.