{"id":8816,"date":"2023-11-16T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=8816"},"modified":"2023-11-16T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:04:59","slug":"miles-bridges-believes-perception-of-him-will-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=8816","title":{"rendered":"Miles Bridges believes that everyone&#8217;s perception of him will change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Former Michigan State star Miles Bridges is returning to the Hornets this weekend and he believes fans will change their minds about him.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/miles-bridges-hints-at-potential-nba-return\/\">Miles Bridges<\/a> has lost a lot of fans over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>After breaking out during the 2021-22 season, he was set to get a massive payday from an organization as he would become a free agent. Mere hours before free agency started, news broke that he was arrested for a domestic incident involving the mother of his children.<\/p>\n<p>The details that emerged from the incident and other prior incidents began leaking and it couldn&#8217;t have looked worse for the former Michigan State star. Many actually thought that his days of playing in the NBA were over. It was\u00a0<em>that<\/em> bad.<\/p>\n<p>But after being suspended from the NBA for the past year, the Hornets are welcoming him back to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Teammates have already voiced their support for his return and they&#8217;re willing to forgive him for what he put them through but it&#8217;s going to be a longer timeline of forgiveness from fans around the league.<\/p>\n<p>However, he believes that he&#8217;s going to change people&#8217;s perspective of him when he gets back on the court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIf I can get us some more wins, I feel like people\u2019s perspective will change a little bit on me\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miles Bridges is back Friday<\/p>\n<p>Hornets host Knicks Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O3d79kbTYO\">pic.twitter.com\/O3d79kbTYO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA_NewYork\/status\/1725267593290817766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Hornets expect him to play Friday as Charlotte hosts the Milwaukee Bucks. This would end his near-600-day absence from NBA action and it&#8217;s going to put Hornets fans in a tough spot. They&#8217;re rooting for their favorite team and a guy who did something morally and legally wrong. It&#8217;s a tough spot to be as a fan.<\/p>\n<p>And the same goes for Spartan fans.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knew Bridges during his days as a Spartan would have nothing but nice things to say about him. He was the &#8220;humble superstar&#8221; that Tom Izzo raved about. But this changed our perception, for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>But he believes he&#8217;ll win fans back. It&#8217;s going to take much more than wins on the court. He needs to show that he&#8217;s changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not so sure it&#8217;ll be that easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[190,189,360,504],"class_list":["post-8816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pro-spartans","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-miles-bridges","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}