1. Is there a risk of bricking the phone? If so, how do I avoid it?
Always. Follow all directions to a T and never assume you know what is suppose to happen or what to do next. Read the directions.
2. In the event of a bricking the phone, is it possible to revert or do you need to go to the sprint store and pay for a new one?
Do you have the total equipment protection? If so its easier to exchange and just play dumb. They will not know you bricked it at the store. You just say something like, "It won't turn on" or "I don't know what happened but it won't work". I had to do this more than once with my alst WinMo phone.
If you don't have the equipment protection you'd need to be in your 30 day window or whatnot.
If you are out of any protection or 30 window if you yell loud enough and talk about switching carriers they sometimes "make stuff happen".
3. In the process of rooting, do I lose contacts, settings, current apps, etc?
You lose nothing until you load a custom rom if you choose to do so and even some of the custom roms do not wipe your data.
Cheers!
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