The New York Knicks have agreed to a trade that will see them acquire Mikal Bridges from the Brooklyn Nets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday.
The Knicks will send 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 said.
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.
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 those numbers dipped as the Nets’ primary creator last season, as he averaged 19.6 points in 82 games.
The 27-year-old Bridges has played 474 straight games to begin his career, the longest streak in the NBA over the last 40 seasons. He’s one of four players with 1,500 points, 150 3-pointers and 75 steals in each of the last two seasons, joining Luka Doncic, Anthony Edwards and Jayson Tatum.
Bridges is owed $23.3 million and $24.9M over the final two years of his current contract. He is eligible to sign a two-year extension on Oct. 1, and can extend for an additional three years, $113M in six months.
Information from ESPN Stats & Information and ESPN’s Bobby Marks was used in this report.