As the New York Knicks navigate the final stretch of the NBA regular season, swingman Mikal Bridges has approached head coach Tom Thibodeau with a request to scale back the heavy minutes typically assigned to starters.

New York Knicks star forward Mikal Bridges made an odd request to his head coach, Tom Thibodeau. Bridges told Thibodeau to 'back off' a bit in the starters' minutes because the bench deserves more. Stefan Bondy of the New York Post shared in his column on Wednesday.

I f there's one thing we know about a Tom Thibodeau-coached team it's that he's going to play his starters a ton of minutes. He's been known to run with short rotations, relying h