Cut him, but we have to work with the league to make he doesn’t get paid!
This guy has to go. We waived Kai because he averages 2 pts/game. Don’t let the 20 pts/game and crazy dunks cloud your judgment from the right decision. If you wanted to give him a second chance (after the first incident), then so be it. But when he’s on this chance and is already doing the same thing, time to let this guy go.
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But as an org, we should make our decision to cut him before that comes to effect.
Agree with all the sentiment that it’s a wrap for this dude if this is true. Just wondering how does this make sense. From the observer:
“The court document providing details on the summons lists the offense date as “on or about” Oct. 10, 2023. On Tuesday, however, Bridges was in Miami with the team.”
I was not a part of the “everyone deserves a second chance” crew. Some folks brought in religion, and being a person of faith and their belief system. That’s fine, you’re allowed to think and feel your truth. I’m not arguing your belief system. But your belief system isn’t the reality we’re dealing with.
Unfortunately, because of my profession I’m familiar with families who have to deal with and navigate the real world impacts of abusers. As I said from the start, when someone batters his partner like Miles did-it wasn’t the first time. It means it’s BEEN an ongoing problem. It wasn’t just a couple who had a fight and it randomly escalated to violence. And a good guy just made a bad decision.
People who do things that Miles has done have a history and pattern of these behaviors. It’s generally a chronic issue that has been happening.
I never said miles doesn’t deserve a second chance, I just felt that the hornets are not required to back a guy who has done a horrendous crime-and obviously has a history of this behavior.
And it looks like my thought process wasn’t off base. I kept my mouth shut for a while because I didn’t feel like debating people getting their religious beliefs into it.
The hornets have paused and railroaded two years for a guy who I could see most likely had a chronic pattern of abuse. And the LEAST important basketball side of this, is that he’s not even an all star player. When miles is at his very CEILING he’s a fringe all star.
I’ve been vocal about not supporting Miles Bridges from the get go, and I was vocal about how poorly the hornets handled this. Good riddance. What an asshole.
Not going to read back through but if memory serves, most of the people bringing up religious ideas were also saying he shouldn’t be back on the team
I don’t remember that, or care enough to look. Because it’s not about religion, perspective on whatever. Or being right or wrong. It’s the reality that when someone like miles did something as heinous as he did, it’s not a one off. It’s been happening, and it won’t just stop.
It’s like saying when Mike Vick was caught in the dog fighting thing, that the day he was caught was the first time he was involved with that, and they caught him on a bad day.
It’s a series of behaviors that has been happening for a long time.
That’s just reality.
Absolutely. Not to even mention the drugs and rap lyrics.
Miles is not a good guy.
You want to know why a lot of us have been complaining about the looker room missing “an adult in the room”? It’s because it’s a systemic problem that starts up top.
The hornets front office needs to the adults in the room, confront their enabling and skirting around the issue. Being an adult, cut miles, take a strong public stance against this behavior. Admit they handled this poorly, and move on from miles bridges
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Not even about being good or bad really.
But what he did was bad, and so fucked up. Maybe there’s a life ahead of miles where he isn’t always like this. And for him, I hope so. People can change.
But he won’t drag the hornets name further through the mud while he implodes.
Edit: that’s all I’m going to say about miles bridges. Just had to get this out. I’m so pissed. Also: the other edits are for typos. Autocorrect is weird stuff
That’s what I meant. At this moment of his life, miles is a bad guy.
From a business standpoint, the hornets need to move on. They were wise to string it along in the hopes they could get a decent basketball player at a bargain price. But that has been proven to be a dead end.
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I don’t even really believe in inherently bad people. Of course, there are always exceptions to that rule naturally. Because we live in a world where where on a routine basis, good people to bad things and even “bad” people do good things sometimes. I try to avoid that kind of thinking. But people’s behaviors can objectively be bad.
The big thing that I do believe in is consequences and accountability. The hornets passed on their chance to make an assertive leadership decision to enforce accountability for bad behavior.
And they passed. The the FO is now having to take a long look and their own choices. They’ve put the team on hold for two years for this clown.
Basketball is the last thing I’m worried about right now, but I have to switch back towards basketball because it is the reality of why we’re here.
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With Miles pleading no contest on the original charges . With that ple I think Miles has to serve that time in jail now , All so he will have to stand trile for the new charges if found guilty .He will serve time for both charges. I expect him to be put away for about ten years. What a way to screw your life up.Does anyone know what pleading no contest mean . Does any one have any knowledge about this???
100%. I’d do it by the end of the business day. I’m sure they gotta go through legal or compliance or whatever, but it would surprise me if there wasn’t a behavioral clause in his contract to protect from this exact situation.
Whether or not you were on team second chance, that pretty much blows it up for everyone. I’m not associating my brand with a serial domestic terrorizer, who obviously doesn’t care about repeatedly traumatizing his kids.
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Then why did you bring it up?
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Because I was frustrated by it then, and I didn’t feel that it was applicable to the reality of the situation. Which above I explained in very clear detail. And I was even clear about not getting into good/bad person either.
Edit: also, I brought it up to bring further context to the situation at hand. We’re dealing with a chronic abuser that obliviously has a history of behaviors. To me, which was clear by the nature of his initial crimes. Unfortunately, because of my professional experience I’m well aware of those situations.
That’s all I was saying back then, and that anyone’s perspective on the nature of people doesn’t matter-because people like miles have longstanding history of this stuff. And peoples views on the redemptive nature of whatever (insert appropriate faith/religion sentient) unfortunately doesn’t undo reality of what we’re dealing with.
I’m not saying anything controversial.
Absolutely this. The Hornets need to get out in front of this. Not wait to find out if we can get out of his contract. I do not want ‘Miles Bridges, of the Charlotte Hornets’ to appear in any text. We HAVE to distance this franchise from him and his actions.
For some people their religion is applicable to all situations. It’s the lens we view life through. I’m not able, nor do I want, to view life as a non-Christian. All my opinions will be made through the worldview of a Christian.
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You’re 
right. And I encourage people to bring their faith systems and what’s important to them anywhere they go in life.
But faith or the lens that brings doesn’t have anything to do with that DV abusers who do something like that have been doing those things for a long time.
It doesn’t matter how my Christian or lack of Christian views impact my lens on Mike Vick. He had been abusing and killing dogs for dog fighting for a long time before he was caught. Viewing that through a religious or non religious lens has nothing to do with that reality.