These last months, Mikal Bridges often watched his old college friends having a blast in Manhattan, while he languished in a dull season with Brooklyn, a few subway stops away. The former Suns player will be able to smile again. https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1805782619382063592Bridges will be traded to the New York Knicks, to reunite with his friends and former Villanova teammates. Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart et Donte DiVincenzo.
The Knicks pulled out all the stops to convince the Brooklyn Nets to let go of Mikal Bridges: four unprotected 1st rounders, a protected 1st round via the Bucks, an unprotected swap and a 2nd round, in addition to Bojan Bogdanovic. According to Woj, this does not mean that the Knicks have given up on extending OG Anunoby, quite the contrary. On the other hand, it is becoming less and less likely that New York will manage to keep Isaiah Hartenstein, who should receive juicy offers after his very good season. We can also wonder what this implies for Julius Randle, absent from the last playoffs and frequently considered a candidate for a trade.
Mikal Bridges has not missed a single game since arriving in the NBA in 2018 and should please Tom Thibodeau for his stainless and reliable side. The Nova Knicks are therefore complete, with four players now passing through the expert hands of Jay Wright to the Wildcats, with two NCAA championship titles (2016 and 2018).
For Brooklyn, the final or almost final fallout from Kevin Durant’s departure to Phoenix last season is therefore as follows:
- 8 first rounds of unprotected draft
- a 1st round 2028 protected
- a swap of an unprotected 2028 1st round
- three 2nd rounds of Draft
- Cam Johnson
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