After a full year together, Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby feel like they’ve reached full comfort with one another.

Trading for Bridges and giving Anunoby a lucrative extension last offseason brought with it the vision that they would be lockdown defenders on the wings.

That wasn’t always the case last year.

Mikal Bridges defends during the Knicks’ home win over the Timberwolves on Nov. 5, 2025. AP

But they’ve both enjoyed a strong start to this season.

“I think we have a synergy,” Bridges said after practice Saturday. “It’s just trying to play the right way and doing what we do defensively and trying to make the right play and be aggressive. When it comes down to me and OG, we started to get that synergy. It’s starting to happen. Especially in this defense where we’re shifting and stu

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