With the 2024 NBA Draft fewer than 24 hours away, major moves are already playing out across the NBA.
Late on Tuesday night, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported the Brooklyn Nets were trading Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks for Bojan Bogdanovic, four unprotected first-round picks, a protected first-round pick from Milwaukee, an unprotected pick swap and a second-round pick.
Throw in a partridge in a pear tree for good measure, you know?
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That trade on its own would have been fairly big news because the Knicks moved a step closer to becoming the professional version of Villanova.
But that was just the first domino.
Next up — a word salad of reported draft pick trades between the Nets and the Houston Rockets, with Brooklyn sending a 2025 pick swap with the Suns, a 2027 Phoenix first-rounder, a first-rounder of their own and a pick-swap in 2029 to the Rockets for … Brooklyn's own 2025 pick swap with Houston and Brooklyn's own 2026 first-rounder — leftovers from the James Harden-to-Brooklyn trade.
OK, fine. The Nets are basically admitting they will probably be bad next year and want to control those upcoming picks. Easy enough, but why is Houston making the trade?
Reportedly, it's because of Kevin Durant! Naturally.
According to Woj, the Rockets apparently want to acquire KD from the Suns, and the Rockets now gain a leg up by having the Suns' traded-away draft picks in their pocket.
So, yeah. Let that all sink in, give it a minute, and we'll be back shortly with what it all means — plus our continued coverage of the 2024 NBA Draft.
It should be a fun couple of days, to say the least.
