Check out the best plays from Mikal Bridges in the 2023-24 season as he gets traded from the Nets to the Knicks. (1:41)
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The Knicks also will acquire a 2026 second-round pick from the Nets to complete the deal.
Bridges now joins a New York team that reached the Eastern Conference semifinals this past season, losing to the Indiana Pacers in seven games. And he'll link up with former Villanova teammates Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo in New York; they won an NCAA title together with the Wildcats in 2016 (Brunson, Bridges and DiVincenzo won a second title together in 2018).
"This is crazy lol," Bridges wrote on social media.
The Knicks remain determined to keep OG Anunoby in free agency, sources told Wojnarowski, as they load up on wings to match up with the NBA champion Boston Celtics. But their bid to re-sign center Isaiah Hartenstein becomes more difficult now.
Bridges played his first four full seasons with the Phoenix Suns, who then traded him to the Nets as part of the four-team blockbuster centered around Kevin Durant in February 2023.
He starred for Brooklyn after that trade, averaging 26.1 points in 27 games the remainder of the 2022-23 season. But his numbers dipped as the Nets' primary creator last season, as he averaged 19.6 points in 82 games.
