The Brooklyn Nets are trying to build a new generation of fans in the borough, fans who grow up with the black-and-white and what better way than to have one of the team’s stars show up bright and early at a local school to serve as a substitute teacher for the day.
Back on March 11, the Monday after the Nets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in Cleveland, Bridges traveled from his Manhattan apartment to PS 134 in the Kensington section of Brooklyn south of Prospect Park. Kensington draws new immigrants from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, the Darfur region of Sudan, Poland, Russia among other places.