Roderick Boone and Evan Moore of The Charlotte Observer and Baxter Holmes of ESPN have obtained copies of the criminal summons that was issued on Wednesday for Hornets forward Miles Bridges. Both outlets have also obtained copies of the accompanying police report related to the summons.
As Holmes previously wrote, the summons is for violating a domestic violence protective order, misdemeanor child abuse and injury to personal property. While the incident was initially believed to have occurred a couple days ago, it actually occurred on October 6 but wasn’t fully reported until Tuesday.
On Oct. 6 around 9 p.m., during a custody exchange at Bridges’ residence in Charlotte, the 25-year-old allegedly threw billiard balls at his ex-girlfriend’s vehicle while their two children were inside it, which smashed the windshield and dented her car. The summons also states that Bridges threatened his former girlfriend, saying that if she called the police “he would take everything from her and withhold child support,” per ESPN.
Bridges is also accused of allowing his current girlfriend to “yell, scream and kick the victim’s car while the children were inside it,” Holmes writes. It’s unclear if his ex-girlfriend was inside the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Bridges is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. on Nov. 13 at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, according to the summons.
An unserved arrest warrant is still out for Bridges for allegedly violating the protective order during a prior incident at the victim’s residence on January 2, according to Boone and Moore. A public copy of the warrant is not yet available since it hasn’t been served.
The Hornets spokesperson gave a brief statement to the media on Wednesday night: “We are aware of the reports and are in the process of gathering more information.”
The warrant and summons are related to Bridges’ domestic violence case from last year.
He was originally facing three felony charges after being accused of assaulting his then-girlfriend in front of their two children, but last November entered a plea of no contest — accepting punishment without formally admitting guilt — to one felony count of injuring a child’s parent. He received three years probation and no jail time as part of the plea deal.
Bridges also has to adhere to a 10-year criminal protective order for the victim as part of the plea agreement. The protective order stipulates that Bridges must stay 100-plus yards away from and have no communication with his former girlfriend.
Bridges is ineligible to compete in preseason games and is suspended for the first 10 games of the 2023/24 season following an NBA investigation into the original domestic violence incident. He missed all of last season while his legal case played out, eventually signing his one-year, $7.92MM qualifying offer as a restricted free agent in July.
How dumb can you possibly be? And how unlucky can the Horners be? They actually draft a promising talent, and he’s clearly mentally unstable and violent.
I typically am like okay 2nd chances, if he makes amends. Dude apparently already had one altercation and now a 2nd after the initial one. 3 strikes you’re out. NBA needs to OJ Mayo this dude, just set an example.
Meet with the NBPA and get on the same page of exiling this dude. Fine him for conduct unbecoming etc… done that money to women of abuse. And just use this guy as a case study for future rookies of what not to do. Same w KPJ.
donate that money*
That’s disgusting. Reminds me greatly of my own family problems.
I wasn’t much willing to let him have a second chance. When his ex directly asked for him to be given a second chance, I decided to reserve judgement.
My current opinions are unprintable.
F*ck him.
This dude is a clown. Get him out of the league
Bridges is also accused of ALLOWING his current girlfriend to scream and “kick the victim’s car while the children were inside it.”
Ratchet ho’s gonna ratchet
You can take the thug out the ghetto but yo can’t never take the ghetto out the thug. Word
Why use a racial slur like thug when you can just call him a POS
Thug is not a racial slur… but yeah, he’s both
Thug isn’t a racial slur…
Call any black person you see in public a thug to their face and get back to us about that.
Remember John Beihlein? It’s a racial slur.
Agreed… you rarely (if ever) see a white person referred to or thought of as a thug. They’re just “from the wrong side of the tracks”.
Thug is, basically – and unfortunately – just a substitute word for the n-word when people are saying it in “print”, social media… they wanna say it but they know they’ll be censored.
Your comment was spot on.
He has already served 3 of those 10 games by sitting out that 1 preseason game.
This makes as much sense as his having served 20 of the 30 games he was suspended by having not actually been signed to a contract.
The part of the story I find amazing is that he has found a new gf, who is also apparently unbalanced. I know, I know. Women love bad boys. But as the case has been highly publicized in baller circles, what can she be expecting of this relationship?
This is turning into an embarrassment for the league. Just drop the hammer on him already. Talented player, but this isn’t Luka we’re talking about here. Indefinite suspension with the ability to apply for conditional reinstatement in two years time if he somehow manages to clean up his act.
How many women would you think they let Luka abuse before suspending him?
Go ask Kurucs
Throwing billiard balls at a car while your kids are inside?!!! What an awful human being in need of serious counseling and correction. There goes his NBA career and when all is said and done, I wouldn’t be surprised if he ended up in an institution, mental and/or correctional.
Still trying to wrap my skull around the possession of billard balls but thankful miles wasn’t packing a weapon. Obviously in need of deep psychological help and a lifetime ban.
Are billiards balls “open carry” in North Carolina?
By weapon do you mean a gun? If one of those billiard balls hit a kid in the head there could have been serious damage
Next time he’s sentenced, a mandatory anger management and mental treatment should be included. Separations are very frustrating but comon’ dude, spare those children from it and save your basketball career. Too late now I guess.
Wonder what miles Dad would say?
‘How many days til I out?’
Don’t forget mommy
Fwiw (and I know the woke mob may try and dog pile)
But if you look at the arrest photos from last year
They both on that Ish
And days before that incident last year
He was on social drinking LEAN
IMO he got a codiene addiction
And his ex and probs his current do too
Look at her pics
Prayers they find balance
My point being
If they are junkies
Who knows what went down
Either incident
I unfortunately have known a number of addicts in my life. None of them physically threaten or risk harming children like this.
Correct, typically functional addicts want one thing. They just want to be left alone and get high. Now, when you add someone that is unable to control their emotions PLUS having an addiction problem that is how you end up with these kind of altercations and issues.
Mental illness and/or someone who struggles with emotional issues, however you want to put it, combined with drugs is a recipe for disaster. Brother needs help, and it doesn’t seem like his new gf is the type to get him on the right path sadly..
The kids are really the ones getting hurt in all of this.
Get Miles Bridges the prison cell he deserves!
Protective Order has been violated twice, including within the past week. Threaten to withhold child support from your kids.
There should be no more chances in the NBA. Total embarrassment for the league. Equally embarrassing is how the NBA and Charlotte have handled all of this.
I understand crimes of passion happen. Maybe someone is past their breaking point and makes a terrible mistake they regret the rest of their lives. That should have been him after the first time. The fact years later he is doing this and has no care for the fact children, possibly his own, are seeing this and endangered shows a certain lack of humanity. People like this are the ones who need to be removed from society before you see the ex and her kids are dead.
Good points
Exactly
Drugs and alcohol my friend
Along with a unstable brain
Any GM that gives this man a long term contract, let alone another NBA contract at any price. Should have their head examined. How do you blow an easy chance at a 100 million dollar contract TWICE? All he had to do is play well this season and stay sqeeky clean. And a team would have given him a multi year deal.
Why all the blame is on him and nothing in the woman? People keeps talking all things about him but nobody says anything about her, perhaps she is perfect?
This is an NBA site so people are focusing on the NBA player. If the woman was playing for the Hornets then there would probably be articles on her guilt as well.
i’ve had my kids kept from me at an exchange because of spite during the holidays. it’s a very emotionally intense situation. everyone lost their cool.
She didn’t throw Pool table balls into her windshield. She didn’t viciously beat herself.
She doesn’t have to be a “good” person for violence from Miles Bridges toward her to be a crime.
How dumb do you have to be to violate an Order of Protection when 1) It can send you to prison. 2) It can cost you ANOTHER $100+ million contract.
Roger, do you understand how a restraining order works?
Ever watch the movie of the pic you have? Falling down
Good lord, you’re in here not talking about the heinous acts this man actually did and instead being like hey maybe the victim deserved it
You need your head examined, POS
It’s called what everyone says on here a privileged life
Prison is about to have an NBA team with Miles Bridges, Kevin Porter Jr. and Mikey Williams
The longest yard 2: basketball
Wouldn’t it be “The Deepest Three”?
Anyone who is pointing towards the woman above is ignorant. Maybe she started the fight that lead to this, maybe she hit Miles first. Maybe she told him about all the dudes she’s cheating on him with, it doesn’t matter. Miles is in the public eye, not her. Miles is the one that at best retaliated. Dude is throwing his career away, he’ll likely be cut after this and not be offered another contract by any NBA team again.
I’m lucky, my wife and have been together 28 years and have never gone through a rough patch, so I don’t know what Bridges is going through. That said, I know I wouldn’t be whipping pool balls at her and the car with kids in it in the same scenario, especially if I was in the public eye, and just coming off a year long suspension.
As I have always said, your pro career is 5 – 10 years long if you’re lucky. I’m not condoning what Miles did, but how hard is it to keep your s_it together long enough to maximize your earnings and play until the game itself tells you that you’re done???
Doesn’t the NBA have some kind of 3 strikes and you’re out rule…
He obviously thinks it’s ok to be violent…
The NBA should take everything away from him…
Silver we are all looking at you
Please lock that POS up in jail where he belongs.
Brandon Miller must have bought him the pool balls.
What a good friend lol
I predict hell be playing against NBA stars next year. If he gets transferred to San Quentin.
Quality human being.
“Still not as bad a guy as Ja Morant” – Adam Silver, probably
You mean Lillard. Silver hates what Lillard did by asking a trade at the time he did. Lillard is the worst
Lillard didn’t get suspended or even fined…