Daily News | Suns’ Mikal Bridges celebrates his Phillies fandom after winning bet with Diamondbacks
PHOENIX — Before Suns forward Mikal Bridges went out to dinner on Monday night, he checked the score of the-Diamondbacks game. The Phillies were up 7-0. It seemed like a safe enough lead, so he put his phone away.
It was one of the Phillies’ worst losses of the season, but Bridges showed up to Chase Field the next day anyway, decked out in a “I Ride with Philly Rob” — as in, interim manager Rob Thomson — t-shirt. He wore a custom-made Diamondbacks jersey over it, but made sure to make his stance known. Bridges, who is a native of Malvern and won national championships with Villanova in 2016 and 2018, has been going to Phillies games since he was 10 years old. He still remembers walking outside his house after the Phillies won the World Series in 2008 and seeing his neighbors go ballistic. He was raised by his grandfather, Isaac, on the Phillies teams of Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Shane Victorino.
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