Beijing time on April 14, the NBA playoffs continued, in the Hornets against the Hawks, originally thought that the two sides were a game of equal strength, but eventually became the Hawks unilateral hanging, this game the Hornets appeared to be powerless, and finally lost to the Hawks 103-132, eliminated, and the Hawks will compete with the Cavaliers for the 8th place in the East.
In today's game, the Hornets' core players three goals, Rozier, Bridges are not in the state, especially Bridges, he only shot 11 points on 5 of 11 shots, 4 boards and 4 assists, and in the end of the game to eat two consecutive technical fouls were expelled by the referee, and when expelled from the game, Bridges made an uncool behavior in the game, he passed the player aisle because he was dissatisfied with the cheers of the Eagles fans in the stands, angrily threw his braces to the stands, But it hit a female spectator, but Bridges quickly apologized for the incident, posting on his social media after the game: "Help me contact the young lady." This is unacceptable. ”
After the game, the referee also gave an explanation for Bridges' two technical fouls, the referee said: "The first technical foul was because he was always dissatisfied with not getting a free throw, and he was also convicted of a personal foul, and the second was because he used profanity against the referee." ”
Bridges has played very well in the regular season this season, he has 20.2 points, 7 rebounds and 3.8 assists in the regular season, shooting 49.1%, one of the fastest improving players this season, Bridges has been playing for the Hornets for 4 years of his career. The first season averaged 7.5 points and 4 rebounds per game, is one of the main rotations of the team, the next two seasons, Bridges played more stable, until this season, Bridges improved very obviously, due to his performance in the regular season, there were also media reports before, Bridges is expected to win a 5-year 173 million US dollars maximum salary contract, and today's failure is bound to have a certain impact on Bridges' contract extension, but competitive sports are like this, play is good and bad, even superstars can not avoid, Bridges season performance is still very worthy of recognition.