This article was originally published on www.si.com/nba/knicks as Knicks' Mikal Bridges Extension Has Unique Timing. The New York Knicks are starting off the new month on the right foot with Mikal Bridges signed for the next four years at $150 million.

The New York Knicks announced Friday that the team has signed Mikal Bridges to a long-term contract extension.

Mikal Bridges has agreed to a four-year, $150 million contract extension with the New York Knicks. The deal, reported Thursday by ESPN, has seemingly been in the works for more than a year after the Knicks acquired Bridges last offseason in a blockbuster trade with the Brooklyn Nets.