For the first time in his professional basketball career, Miles Bridges will be wearing a new jersey next season. On Sunday, the former Michigan State star and controversial forward for the Charlotte Hornets was traded along with a 2029 first-round pick to the Phoenix Suns for Grayson Allen, Royce O’Neale, and a 2033 first-round pick.
Bridges played the first seven seasons of his career in Charlotte after they selected him twelfth in the 2018 NBA Draft after he was a Consensus All-American for the Spartans the previous season. Bridges infamously sat out the 2022-23 season after pleading no contest to felony domestic violence charges.
Bridges will now head to Phoenix, where he will join former Spartans like owner Mat Ishbia, who played for MSU under Tom Izzo. General Manager Brian Gregory, who was a long-time assistant coach for Michigan State. The Suns’ head coach, Jordan Ott, was also a graduate assistant and video coordinator for the Spartans.
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