Mikal Bridges did not ask out, did not demand a trade, Sean Marks said after the Brooklyn Nets sent the 27-year-old to the New York Knicks. Not in his character, said the Nets GM responding to reports, specifically from Ian Begley that indeed he and his “side” was “prepared to force the issue” if he didn’t get his way.
But there is NO doubt that he wanted to be reunited with his three former Villanova teammates at the Garden AND that he was unhappy in Brooklyn. As he told Paul George said on “Podcast P’ with Paul George” and as Stefan Bondy, writing Thursday in the Post, reported, the situation in Brooklyn had become untenable while the situation across the river seemed ideal.