The 2023-24 NBA regular season has concluded and an important question needs to be answered:

Who are the Iron Men that played in all 82 games?

Last year, there were 10 NBA Iron Men who did not miss a single game and this year that number jumped to 17.

The Iron Men of the 2023-24 NBA SZN

Mikal Bridges, Brooklyn Nets

The only place to start this list is with Mikal Bridges, an NBA Iron Man in all six seasons of his career.

Bridges has now played 474 consecutive NBA games — just 718 games left to match A.C. Green’s All-Time NBA Iron Man record of 1,192 straight games. Only nine more seasons to go!

Buddy Hield and Paul Reed, Philadelphia 76ers

Thanks to a midseason trade from Indy to Philly, Buddy Hield led the league with 84 games played, the most in a season since 2004-05. (Still four games shy of Walt Bellamy’s record of 88 games in 1968-69.)

Hield’s Philly teammate B-Ball Paul also played in all 82, quite the feat for somebody who played in 64 total games in his first two seasons in the league.

Chet Holmgren and Cason Wallace, Oklahoma City Thunder

Chet Holmgren and Cason Wallace aren’t just teammates — they are rookie teammates, a huge part of this year’s Thunder team being the youngest 1-seed in NBA history.

Holmgren was also second in the league in blocks while Wallace has the best 3-point percentage (41.9) among this entire Iron Man list.

Obi Toppin, Indiana Pacers & Bobby Portis, Milwaukee Bucks

Not linked as teammates but as 1st-round playoff opponents, Obi Toppin and Bobby Portis will square off in an Eastern Conference NBA Iron Man Bowl.

The Pacers-Bucks regular season series had some flare to it with the Giannis’ 64-point game ball controversy. That game also featured a heated and crazy-eyed Portis scuffling with Aaron Nesmith (and Obi Toppin!) after a hard foul was committed on Giannis.

Jalen Green, Houston Rockets & Austin Reaves, Los Angeles Lakers

Both in their third year in the league, Jalen Green and Austin Reaves were connected in another way this season besides joining NBA Iron Man lore together.

It was revealed that head coach Ime Udoka made sure Jalen Green remembered before a Rockets-Lakers matchup that Austin Reaves was selected to the FIBA USA team over him. Green used the motivation as rocket fuel, exploding for 28 points in a 34-point Rockets blowout victory while Reaves posted a plus-minus of -28, his worst mark of the entire season.

Christian Braun and Reggie Jackson, Denver Nuggets

Achieving Iron Man status is familiar territory for this pair of Denver teammates.

It is Reggie Jackson’s second time playing all 82, matching his Iron Man season of 2018-19 in Detroit. And Christian Braun did not miss a game in his three years at Kansas.

Domantas Sabonis and Harrison Barnes, Sacramento Kings

A fourth set of teammates make this list and these two hope to join the others in the 2024 playoffs. (Update: they did not.)

It’s the second Iron Man season for Harrison Barnes, who played 82 for the Warriors nine years ago in 2014-15. It’s the first time for Domantas Sabonis, who also led the league in total rebounds and was fourth in total assists.

Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Minnesota Timberwolves & Jonas Valanciunas, New Orleans Pelicans

NAW and Jo-Val are not current teammates but played on the 2021-22 Pelicans together.

This was actually Alexander-Walker’s first time playing more than 65 games in a season. Valanciunas, however, had played 80+ games three times before finally hitting all 82 this year.

Georges Niang, Cleveland Cavaliers & Payton Pritchard, Boston Celtics

The remarkable thing about the last two guys on this NBA Iron Man list is that Georges Niang and Payton Pritchard had unbelievably similar stats this season:

Niang: 9.4 ppg, 3.5 FGM, 7.7 FGA, 1.8 3PM, 4.8 3PA
Pritchard: 9.6 ppg, 3.6 FGM, 7.7 FGA, 1.8 3PM, 4.7 3PA

It should also be noted that this was Niang’s second time as NBA Iron Man (2020-21 with the Jazz) and Pritchard scored his career-high 38 points in the very last game of the season, Game 82.