NBA trade grades - Bridges to the Knicks, and something cooking in Houston - ESPN

The New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets shook up the NBA the night before the 2024 draft by making a crosstown trade.

The trade will send forward Mikal Bridges and a 2026 second-round pick to the Knicks for Bojan Bogdanovic, four unprotected first-round picks (2025, 2027, 2029, 2031), a 2025 protected first-rounder via the Milwaukee Bucks, a 2028 unprotected pick swap and a 2025 second-rounder to the Nets, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Knicks will be Bridges' third team after being drafted by the Phoenix Suns in 2018. He will join his former college teammates at Villanova Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo in New York. The group won the 2016 national championship together before Brunson, DiVincenzo and Bridges won another title in 2018 with the Wildcats.

The Nets were not done dealing Tuesday night. Brooklyn sent two picks and two swaps to Houston to extinguish the Rockets' rights to the Nets' own 2025 first-round pick swap, as well as a 2026 first-round pick originally sent in the James Harden trade.

The trade indicates the Rockets' potential interest in adding a star player to their young roster. Wojnarowski floated Kevin Durant as a possibility for Houston after the deals were done Tuesday night.

ESPN Insider Kevin Pelton breaks down both trades and hands out grades for the three teams.

Brooklyn Nets get:

F Bojan Bogdanovic
2025 first-round pick
2027 first-round pick
2029 first-round pick
2031 first-round pick
2028 first-round swap
2025 first-round pick (via Bucks)
2025 second-round pick

New York Knicks get:

F Mikal Bridges
2026 second-round pick

Brooklyn Nets grade: A

Bridges' combination of production and contract makes him invaluable to contending teams. Unfortunately, his current team was