For most basketball players, making it to the NBA is the ultimate dream. But Brooklyn Nets star Mikal Bridges has another dream as well. “My other dream was being a second grade teacher,” the small forward told CBS News. “I think just helping kids has always been a big thing of mine.” Why second grade? “Because I loved second grade when I was young,” he said. “I feel like that was one of the years I really remember. Just having a great year. I had a great teacher named Ms. Porter and just I feel like I always loved second grade.” Growing up in Philadelphia, Bridges was inspired by Ms. Porter to follow that dream. He got to do that this month at PS 134 in Brooklyn, where he worked as a teacher for the day.
Source: CBS News
Source: CBS News
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Many of the kids seized the opportunity to tell Bridges they too play basketball. On the playground at recess, they marveled at how tall he was and one stopped their ball game to ask Bridges for a hug. At lunch, he answered the first graders’ riddles. And then, he taught his favorite class — math. That’s where, perhaps, his inclination for teaching others began. “Math came easy to me. I feel like I was probably one of the smartest math kids in our class,” he said, adding that when he was a kid, he’d help other students. “I’ll try to teach them. Like, ‘Oh, this is how I learned it and it’s pretty simple to me this way. Just think of this way.'” -via CBS News / March 29, 2024
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They snapped a season-worst six-game losing skid on Monday. They came in 5 ½ games behind Atlanta for the last Eastern Conference play-in spot and didn’t make up any ground thanks to the Hawks’ rally from a 30-point deficit against Boston. “You can’t complain about it. You can’t say I wish we could have done this and that. You’re in it right now. So you’re present right now,” Bridges said. “So obviously it sucks that we’re here right now with that situation. But all you can do is you’ve just got to go up from here.” -via New York Post / March 26, 2024
