| Jalen Bridges | |
| Position: | Small forward |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 8 |
| Weight Lbs: | 225 |
| League: | NBA |
| Team: | Phoenix Suns |
| Number: | 15 |
| Birth Date: | 14 May 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Fairmont, West Virginia, U.S. |
| High School: | Fairmont Senior (Fairmont, West Virginia) |
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| Draft Year: | 2024 |
| Career Start: | 2024 |
| Years1: | —present |
| Team1: | Phoenix Suns |
| Years2: | 2024—present |
| Team2: | →Valley Suns |
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Jalen Lashaun Bridges (born May 14, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Valley Suns of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the West Virginia Mountaineers and the Baylor Bears.
Bridges played basketball for Fairmont Senior High School in Fairmont, West Virginia. He helped his team win back-to-back Class AA state titles in his first two years.[1] [2] As a senior, he averaged 21.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game, leading his team to its fourth straight state title game.[3] He won the Bill Evans Award as the top high school player in the state of West Virginia.[4] A consensus four-star recruit, he committed to playing college basketball for West Virginia over offers from Miami (Florida), Indiana, Xavier and Alabama.[5]
After initially planning to play a postgraduate season, Bridges joined West Virginia for his first season as a redshirt.[6] On March 4, 2021, he recorded freshman season-highs of 22 points and 12 rebounds in a 76–67 win over TCU.[7] As a freshman, Bridges averaged 5.9 points and 3.6 rebounds per game, earning Big 12 All-Freshman Team honors.[8] He averaged 8.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game as a sophomore. Following the season, Bridges transferred to Baylor.[9] He averaged 10.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game as a junior. Bridges declared for the 2023 NBA draft before withdrawing to return to Baylor.[10] He averaged 12.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.1 blocks per game and was named to the Third Team All-Big 12.[11]
After going undrafted in the 2024 NBA draft, Bridges signed a two-way contract with the Phoenix Suns on July 4, 2024.[12]
|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2019–20| style="text-align:left;"| West Virginia| style="text-align:center;" colspan="11"| Redshirt|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2020–21| style="text-align:left;"| West Virginia| 28 || 19 || 18.1 || .496 || .409 || .714 || 3.6 || .3 || .5 || .4 || 5.9|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2021–22| style="text-align:left;"| West Virginia| 33 || 33 || 26.8 || .428 || .325 || .823 || 4.8 || .8 || 1.0 || .7 || 8.4|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23| style="text-align:left;"| Baylor| 34 || 34 || 27.3 || .506 || .324 || .778 || 5.6 || 1.0 || .9 || 1.0 || 10.3|-| style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24| style="text-align:left;"| Baylor| 35 || 35 || 31.7 || .466 || .412 || .823 || 5.7 || 1.4 || 1.1 || .6 || 12.2|- class="sortbottom"| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career| 130 || 121 || 26.4 || .472 || .370 || .796 || 5.0 || .9 || .9 || .7 || 9.4