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Michigan State's Miles Bridges needs to be 'a little more of a jerk' to be great

Cynthia Bridges, mother of Michigan State University basketball star Miles Bridges, talks about her son getting into basketball. Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press

Few things in sports bring out the skeptics like unmet expectation. The problem is that expectation isn’t always based on what’s real.

So when a player with the strength, quickness and athletic ability of Miles Bridges eschews a likely lottery spot in the NBA draft to return to MSU for his sophomore year, well, how could he not be anything other than the college player of the year?