Sources — Knicks to amass Mikal Bridges from Nets

The New York Knicks have agreed to a commerce that can see them purchase Mikal Bridges from the Brooklyn Nets, sources advised ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday.

The Knicks will ship Bojan Bogdanovic, 4 unprotected first-round picks (2025, 2027, 2029, 2031), a 2025 protected first-rounder through the Milwaukee Bucks, a 2028 unprotected decide swap and a 2025 second-rounder to the Nets, sources stated.

The Knicks additionally will purchase a 2026 second-round decide from the Nets to finish the deal.

Bridges now joins a New York group that reached the Japanese Convention semifinals this previous season, shedding to the Indiana Pacers in seven video games. And he’ll hyperlink up with former Villanova teammates Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo in New York; they gained an NCAA title along with the Wildcats in 2016 (Brunson, Bridges and DiVincenzo gained a second title collectively in 2018).

“That is loopy lol,” Bridges wrote on social media.

The Knicks stay decided to maintain OG Anunoby in free company, sources advised Wojnarowski, as they load up on wings to match up with the NBA champion Boston Celtics. However their bid to re-sign heart Isaiah Hartenstein turns into tougher now.

Bridges performed his first 4 full seasons with the Phoenix Suns, who then traded him to the Nets as a part of the four-team blockbuster centered round Kevin Durant in February 2023.

He starred for Brooklyn after that commerce, averaging 26.1 factors in 27 video games the rest of the 2022-23 season. However his numbers dipped because the Nets’ major creator final season, as he averaged 19.6 factors in 82 video games.

The 27-year-old Bridges has performed 474 straight video games to start his profession, the longest streak within the NBA over the previous 40 seasons. He is one among 4 gamers with 1,500 factors, 150 3-pointers and 75 steals in every of the previous two seasons, becoming a member of Luka Doncic, Anthony Edwards and Jayson Tatum.

Defensively, 50 gamers have contested not less than 2,500 photographs prior to now three seasons. Bridges has allowed 42.9% taking pictures because the contesting defender throughout that span, the fifth-best mark of that group, per Second Spectrum.

Bridges is owed $23.3 million and $24.9 million over the ultimate two years of his present contract. He’s eligible to signal a two-year extension on Oct. 1, and might prolong for a further three years, $113 million in six months.

The deal is the primary between the groups since June 1983, when the Nets traded Len Elmore to the Knicks for a 1984 second-round decide (forty first general, used on Tom Sluby).

Info from ESPN Stats & Info and ESPN’s Bobby Marks was used on this report.