Mikal Bridges: Wife| Mom | Trade Details| 76ers| Game log…

Mikal Bridges is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Villanova Wildcats, winning national championships in 2016 and 2018.

Mikal Bridges: Wife| Mom | Trade Details| 76ers| Game log

Wife:

The 2018 NBA Draft will be held tonight at Barclays Center in New York. Villanova star Mikal Bridges will be one of the players in the green room for the event.

Bridges is projected to be a lottery pick tonight. When he celebrates getting selected, his girlfriend Grainger Rosati will probably be right there by his side.

Rosati is a Villanova student and a member of the women’s lacrosse team. She and Bridges have been together for a bit it seems.

Mom:

The Malvern native was taken by his hometown Sixers, only to be immediately traded to the Phoenix Suns.

“I didn’t know what they were saying, I was confused,” Bridges told Jeff Skversky on the night of the trade.

Just three years later, Bridges is shinning in the NBA finals.

Trade Details:

The Sixers drafted Villanova product Mikal Bridges with the No. 10 overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft Thursday (see story). However, a short time later they sent Bridges to Phoenix for No. 16 pick Zhaire Smith and a 2021 unprotected first-round selection from Miami.

The deal was first reported by Yahoo! Sports’ Shams Charania.

“About one minute when Phoenix was picking they said I was going to be traded, so when I walked across that stage Philly was on my mind,” Smith said on how he learned about the deal.

76ers:

He was visibly happy, his team’s employed mother was over the moon, and fans like yours truly who’d watched the spaghetti-armed winger win a pair of championships on the Mainline looked forward to cheering on the Philly native as he would add some Sixers red to his Villanova blue and whites.

And then, well, general manager Brett Brown happened.

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