Mikal Bridges vs. Haywood Highsmith Season by Season Comparison

Side by side comparison of each NBA season of Haywood Highsmith and Mikal Bridges, from their rookie seasons to their last year played, in chronological order with awards, stats, championships and playoff performance of their teams every year.

Who had the better rookie season? Who had best stats in their 10th season? Who won a championship first? These questions and many others, are answered here.

Mikal Bridges played 6 years in the NBA, 2 more than Haywood Highsmith, who played 4. Mikal Bridges had the first of his seasons in 2018-19, while Haywood Highsmith had his rookie season in 2018-19. With that starting point, here you can take a look at each of their seasons side by side and compare how their careers evolved in achivements, awards and championships won, the stats they recorded both in the Regular Season and the Playoffs and how their teams performed in the postseason.

Note: Haywood Highsmith didn't play in 2019-20 and 2020-21.

Season 4
	Mikal Bridges	Haywood Highsmith
Season	2021-22	2023-24
Team	Phoenix Suns	Miami Heat
Honors & Awards	All-Defensive First Team	-
Playoffs	Suns Lost West Conf Semis	Heat Lost East Conf 1st Rd

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Regular Season Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Mikal Bridges	82	34.8	14.2	0.9	3.3	4.2	2.3	1.2	0.4	0.8	1.8	5.6	10.5	.534	1.4	3.8	.369	1.6	1.9	.834
Haywood Highsmith	66	20.7	6.1	1.0	2.2	3.2	1.1	0.8	0.5	0.5	1.8	2.3	5.0	.465	1.2	2.9	.396	0.3	0.5	.639
Playoffs Stats
	G	Min	Pts	ORb	DRb	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	FGM / A		%	3PM / A		%	FTM / A		%
Mikal Bridges	13	38.5	13.3	0.9	3.8	4.7	2.8	1.1	1.0	0.8	2.4	5.1	10.6	.478	1.0	2.5	.394	2.2	2.3	.933
Haywood Highsmith	5	25.2	4.8	0.4	2.4	2.8	1.6	0.2	0.2	0.8	2.8	2.0	5.6	.357	0.6	3.2	.188	0.2	0.2	1.000