Sources: Mikal Bridges at center of uncommon Knicks, Nets trade

On the eve of the NBA draft, the Knicks and Nets made their to begin with exchange with each other since 1983 and did so in sensational design, as Modern York concurred in guideline to obtain Mikal Bridges from Brooklyn for Bojan Bogdanovic, five first-round draft picks, a first-round choose swap and a second-round choice, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday.

Brooklyn will get unprotected Modern York picks in 2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031, along with an unprotected choose swap with Modern York in 2028. Brooklyn too will get a top-four secured 2025 first-round choose through the Milwaukee Bucks, as well as a 2025 second-rounder.

The Knicks will procure a 2026 second-round choose from the Nets to total the de

Bridges, 27, has never missed a amusement in his NBA career, and he found the middle value of 19.6 focuses this past season for Brooklyn. He is seen as one of the first class 3-and-D players in the lea

The bargain is the fifth between the two Modern York establishments since the Nets entered the NBA in 1976 -- and the to begin with since the Nets exchanged Len Elmore to the Knicks for a 1984 second-round choose (utilized on Tom Sluby) on June 22, 1983.

Almost 41 a long time to the day afterward, the groups struck a genuine blockbuster exchange with enormous resonations for both establishments moving forwarWith the Knicks, Bridges reunites with previous Villanova partners Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo, who driven the Wildcats to the 2016 national championship. Brunson, Bridges and DiVincenzo went on to win a moment title together two a long time later.

Now, they'll see to offer assistance conclusion a 52-year championship dry season another spring for the Knicks, who won a playoff arrangement in back-to-back seasons for the to begin with time in 24 a long time after beating the Philadelphia 76ers 4-2 in the to begin with circular this past spring some time recently losing to the Indiana Pacers in seven recreations in the
Eastern Conference semifinals.

Sources told Wojnarowski that Unused York remains centered on endeavoring to re-sign forward OG Anunoby, whom they procured midseason from the Toronto Raptors and who is set to gotten to be an unhindered free specialist this summer. The Knicks too trust to re-sign center Isaiah Hartenstein but are constrained in what they can pay him due to as it were holding his early Winged creature rights -- which implies, at most, he can sign a four-year, $72.5 million bargain with the team.

By landing Bridges and Anunoby in sequential bargains, Modern York is equipping itself with as much length, flexibility and shooting on the border as conceivable in arrange to fight with the winner Boston Celtics for Eastern Conference supremacy.

Bridges has played 474 straight recreations to start his career, the longest streak in the NBA over the past 40 seasons. He is one of four players with 1,500 focuses, 150 3-pointers and 75 takes in each of the past two seasons, joining Luka Doncic, Anthony Edwards and Jayson Tatum.

Bridges is owed $23.3 million and $24.9 million over the last two a long time of his current contract. He is qualified to sign a two-year expansion on Oct. 1 and can expand for an extra three a long time and $113 million in six months.

Brooklyn, in the interim, has solidly picked a heading, not as it were by moving on from Bridges but by sending out a few of the first-round choose rights it gotten from the Phoenix Suns -- along with Bridges -- in the Kevin Durant blockbuster exchange in February 2022.

Now, Brooklyn has control of its 2025 and 2026 drafts -- both of which are considered exceptionally solid with high-end prospects, counting Cooper Flagg in 2025 and Cameron Boozer, the child of previous NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer, in 2026.

Bogdanovic, 35, found the middle value of 15.2 focuses between the Knicks and the Detroit Cylinders final season. The Nets drafted him in 2011, and he played the to begin with 2½ a long time of his career with them.

Information from ESPN Stats & Data and ESPN's Bobby Marks was utilized in this report.