By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
New York agreed in principle to acquire Mikal Bridges from Brooklyn for Bojan Bogdanovic, five first-round draft picks, a first-round pick swap, and a second-round selection, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Brooklyn will receive unprotected New York picks in 2025, 2027, 2029, and 2031, along with an unprotected pick swap with New York in 2028. Brooklyn also will receive a top-four protected 2025 first-round pick via the Milwaukee Bucks and a 2025 second-rounder.
The Knicks will acquire a 2026 second-round pick from the Nets to complete the deal.
Bogdanovic returns to the Nets, where he played between 2014 and 2017 after leaving Europe and Fenerbahce. The 35-year-old Croatian averaged 15.2 points between the Knicks and the Detroit Pistons last season.
Bridges, 27, has never missed a game in his NBA career, he averaged 19.6 points this past season for Brooklyn and he is seen as one of the elite “3-and-D” players in the league.
With the Knicks, Bridges reunites with former Villanova teammates Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Donte DiVincenzo, who led the Wildcats to the 2016 national championship. Brunson, Bridges, and DiVincenzo went on to win a second title together two years later.