Mikal Bridges showed something Wednesday that we hadn’t seen too often since the Knicks emptied their asset chest to acquire him.

Per SNY's Ian Begley, New York Knicks reps Mikal Bridges and Tom Thibodeau took some time to talk time prior to Wednesday's game in Portland. Bridges made headlines when a report from Stefan Bondy of the New York Post declared that he had spoken with the head coach Thibodeau about cutting down on the Knicks starters' workload.

With the New York Knicks on a similar trajectory, Mikal Bridges had to intervene and ask Coach Thibodeau if he could tone down the minutes for him and the rest of the starting uni