Remember when Mikal Bridges, who grew up and played high school and college ball in the Philadelphia area, was drafted by the 76ers, the NBA franchise based in Philadelphia? And not only was he drafted by the team from Philly, but he was drafted by the team that employed his own mother as a team employee. Mother and son were going to be coworkers, albeit in extremely differing roles.
Then the Sixers immediately traded Bridges away to the Suns for Zhaire Smith (LOL [lots of laughs]) and a pick, and the feel-good story abruptly stopped feeling so good.
But now there’s a different feel-good story happening, a feel-good story involving Mikal Bridges having a good old-fashioned REVENGE GAME against the team that gave up on him not thirty minutes into his NBA career. There are reports from inside the arena that Mikal Bridges was radiating a purple aura that only grew more intense as his total on the scoreboard got bigger and bigger. By the end of the game, he was like a glowing being of pure light. I’m not a medical doctor, but that symptom is a tell-tale sign of somebody who has had their blood replaced by 100% PURE LIQUID REVENGE.
Also, this “Revenge Game Syndrome” (as I’ve taken to calling it) is interesting in that its effects are not visible when recorded with a video camera. So if you don’t see Bridges running around out there glowing like he just took a dip in the Chernobyl swimming pool, that’s because the cameras don’t pick up the VENGEFUL PURPLE GLOW.
In fact, there was so much REVENGE being generated by Bridges this game that the Suns went out and acquired his mom from the Sixers for cash considerations. Now Bridges’ mom does whatever it is that she does for the Suns and the Sixers are desperately missing her presence. God, the REVENGE is so thick I can almost taste it from here.