The Brooklyn Nets are now committed to a full rebuild after trading Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks for a haul of draft picks late on Tuesday night. While Brooklyn received enough draft capital to do their own rebuild thanks to the trade of Bridges, they still have more on the agenda.
Per Jake Fischer of Yahoo! Sports, the Nets are still looking to acquire picks in the 2024 NBA Draft, the first round of which begins on Wednesday. While Brooklyn did what many had been suggesting them to do by trading Bridges away for draft capital, the Nets did not acquire a pick in the 2024 Draft and that seems like something they still want to achieve.
“The Nets, per sources, are still looking to acquire picks in this draft,” Fischer wrote on X. “There’s going to be plenty of calls into Brooklyn, offering packages with tonight’s first round selections for Nets wings Cam Johnson and/or Dorian Finney-Smith. Brooklyn seems quite open for business.”
There has been various reports of the Nets looking for draft capital in the 2024 Draft, with rumors of them reaching out to the Knicks and the Minnesota Timberwolves for their picks late in the first round. There is also reporting from Michael Scotto of HoopsHype that suggest that Brooklyn could be trading most of the better players currently on the team to get more draft picks and/or young players.
For Johnson and Finney-Smith, both forwards represent skill sets that are coveted by every team in the NBA regardless of whether the team is in a position to win or not. Finney-Smith is an veteran forward who has proven to be able to shoot the three-ball with above-average efficiency while Johnson is a knockdown three-point shooter that provides solid rebounding and can hold his own on the perimeter defensively.
Looks like the Nets are still willing to acquire more picks as they are going deeper into their rebuild. Brooklyn got quite the haul for Kevin Durant and later, Mikal Bridges. With the reports that the Nets could be trading more of their veterans, tonight could be a huge night. https://t.co/9VoE93jSpS
— Sharif Phillips-Keaton (@SharifKeaton) June 26, 2024
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