Girl Hit During Losing NBA Player's Tantrum, Team Then Suffers Blowout Defeat

This is a tale about a teenager and a temper tantrum, but with a twist.

In this version, a 16-year-old girl was sitting about as quietly as one does at an NBA game and probably enjoying the show as the hometown Atlanta Hawks were cruising to Wednesday’s 132-103 rout of the 🏀Charlotte Hornets.

Enter Miles Bridges of Charlotte, who had just been ejected for sharing with a referee his perspective on a goaltending call against him.

As Bridges stalked off to the locker room in a cloud of rage, a fan jumped up and added insults — lots of them — to injury.

If Bridges had much in the way of self-control remaining, it was not evident in videos of the incident, which show him hurling his mouthpiece in the direction of the mocking fan.

But some nights, you can’t even make the easy shots. Instead of the heckler, the mouthpiece hit another fan sitting nearby.

According to The Charlotte Observer, the 16-year-old girl who was hit by the mouthpiece did not want to give her name or be interviewed and did not know what she had been struck with until she was shown video of the incident.

Contrition arrived even before the $50,000 fine levied against Bridges by the NBA