CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA – DECEMBER 06: Miles Bridges #0 of the Charlotte Hornets looks on during overtime in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Spectrum Center on December 06, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

An arrest warrant has been issued for Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges, and it’s related to a prior domestic violence incident. Bridges is reportedly facing an arrest warrant and a criminal summons for allegedly violating a protective order.

The Charlotte Hornets forward is said to have violated a protective order by smashing his girlfriend’s windshield. Bridges was issued a 10-year criminal protective order in regard to his girlfriend when he pleaded no contest to a felony charge of injuring a child’s parent in November 2022.

He was also sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to take weekly narcotics and marijuana tests for pleading no contest to the felony charge that stemmed from allegations he “assaulted the mother of his children in front of them,” per Jessica Allen and Glenn Counts of WSOC in Charlotte.

Following his signing of a one-year, $7.9 million qualifying offer this offseason, he apologized for the “pain and embarrassment” the charge caused his family and others.

“A lot of people don’t get a second chance, and I want to use this second chance to prove to everyone that I’m the same kid you drafted five years ago,” he said.

His issues off the court are the reason he did not play last year. The NBA suspended him 30 games but said he only needed to sit out 10 of them in the 2023-24 campaign because he received credit for 20 games for missing last season.

Bridges last appeared in an NBA game in April 2022. When he last played for the Hornets, Bridges averaged career-highs of 20.2 points and seven rebounds.