CRAZY HAUL for Mikal Bridges Reaction | New Era Brooklyn Nets

Mikal Bridges, the centerpiece of the Brooklyn Nets trade of Kevin Durant a year and a half ago, has been traded to the New York Knicks in one of two monster moves that has sent Brooklyn into a full rebuild. In the other, the Nets and the Houston Rockets executed a swap of picks that will bring two of the Nets trade assets from the James Harden trade back to Brooklyn. adding to the rebuild.

The trades are the latest in a series of moves that have taken the Nets from being the odds-on NBA championship favorite in 2021-22 to a team whose short-term future looks bleak. According to more than one report, Bridges asked to be moved, just as the Nets three previous franchise players — Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden — had.