NBA Trade Notes – Bridges to the Knicks and Something Cooking in Houston

The New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets shook up the NBA the day before the 2024 draft by making a trade across town.

The trade will send forward Mikal Bridges and a 2026 second-rounder to the Knicks for Bojan Bogdanovic, four unprotected first-round picks (2025, 2027, 2029, 2031), a protected 2025 first-rounder via the Milwaukee Bucks, a unprotected pick in 2028. trade and a 2025 second-rounder to the Nets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Knicks will be Bridges’ third team after being drafted by the Phoenix Suns in 2018. He will join his former Villanova college teammates Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo in New York. The group won the 2016 national championship together before Brunson, DiVincenzo and Bridges also won the 2018 title with the Wildcats.

The Nets weren’t done negotiating Tuesday night. Brooklyn sent two picks and two trades to Houston to extinguish the Rockets’ rights to the Nets’ own 2025 first-round pick trade as well as a 2026 first-round pick originally sent as part of the James trade Harden.

The trade indicates the Rockets’ potential interest in adding a star player to their young roster. Wojnarowski tapped Kevin Durant as an opportunity for Houston after deals closed Tuesday night.

ESPN insider Kevin Pelton breaks down both exchanges and breaks down the grades to all three teams.

The Brooklyn Nets get:

F Bojan Bogdanovic
2025 first round pick
2027 first round pick
2029 first round pick
2031 first-round pick
2028 first round trade
2025 first-round pick (via Bucks)
2025 second round pick

The New York Knicks get:

Bridges F Mikal
2026 second round pick