{"id":767342,"date":"2026-06-28T19:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767342\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:21:16","slug":"ap-source-hornets-trade-miles-bridges-to-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767342\/","title":{"rendered":"AP source: Hornets trade Miles Bridges to Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hornets have agreed to trade forward Miles Bridges<\/a>, a 2029 first-round draft pick and a 2027 second-round pick to the Phoenix Suns<\/a> for guard Grayson Allen<\/a>, forward Royce O\u2019Neale and a 2033 first-round pick, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Sunday because the trade, which was first reported by ESPN, still needs to be approved by the league.<\/p>\n

The trade comes on the heels of the Hornets sending\u00a0star point guard LaMelo Ball\u00a0to Minnesota as part of a deal that brought them Naz Reid, draft picks and pick swaps.<\/p>\n

That appears to have set off a major restructuring in Charlotte just months after the team improved its win total by 24 games from last season under second-year head coach Charles Lee.<\/p>\n

The Hornets lost in the play-in game to Orlando.<\/p>\n

The six-foot-seven Bridges, 28, was the longest-tenured player on the Hornets roster, joining the team as a first-round draft pick in 2018 out of Michigan State.<\/p>\n

In seven seasons, he averaged 15.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game while shooting 46.1 per cent from the field and 33.8 per cent from three-point range. His best season came in 2023-24 when he averaged 21 points and 7.3 rebounds while shooting 34.9 per cent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

He sat out the 2022-23 season following accusations of domestic abuse.<\/p>\n

Bridges was arrested in June 2022 on the eve of free agency on charges including felony child abuse and injuring a child\u2019s parent. The NBA forced him to sit out while his legal case was pending. He ultimately pleaded no contest to a felony domestic violence charge in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Bridges was suspended for 30 games in April 2023 by the league but received a 20-game credit because he missed the entire 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n

Charlotte never made the playoffs during Bridges’ tenure with the team.<\/p>\n

The trade opens the door for Reid, one of the league’s top reserves, to potentially start at power forward.<\/p>\n

The six-foot-three Allen grew into a solid scorer in his three seasons with the Suns, averaging a career-high 16.5 points and 3.8 assists per game, though injuries limited him to just 51 games.<\/p>\n

He’s the third former Duke player to join the Hornets roster.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old is considered an elite 3-point shooter, though his accuracy dipped to 34.9 per cent from long range last season.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neale, 33, is a versatile veteran entering his 10th NBA season. The 6-foot-6 forward spent the past 2 1\/2 seasons with the Suns and averaged a career-high 9.8 points per game last season while shooting nearly 41 per cent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hornets have agreed to trade forward Miles Bridges, a 2029 first-round draft pick and a 2027 second-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-767342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}