Mikal Bridges

Bridges has never missed a game as a professional. The streak reached 638 consecutive appearances, the longest active run in the league and the eighth-longest ever, and in 2025-26 it survived a night on which he played 23 seconds. He went tenth in 2018 to Philadelphia, was traded to Phoenix the same evening, reached the Finals there in 2021, moved to Brooklyn in 2023 and to New York in 2024, where he won his first championship in 2026. He averaged 14.4 points across all 82 games that season. Durability is treated as a footnote; over a decade, availability is closer to the whole argument — a rotation player who is always there outproduces a better one who is not.