The Brooklyn Nets are buying and selling Cam Johnson to the Denver Nuggets for Michael Porter Jr. and a 2032 unprotected first-round draft choose, per a number of studies Monday.
The swap of forwards, which occurred shortly after the NBA free-agency interval opened at 6 p.m. ET, sends Johnson again to the Western Convention, the place he helped Phoenix attain the 2021 NBA Finals two years earlier than Porter helped the Nuggets win the title.
Johnson averaged a career-high 18.8 factors in 57 video games final season. The Nets acquired him within the deal that despatched Kevin Durant to the Suns on the 2023 commerce deadline, and there was hypothesis all through the season that Johnson might be dealt to a contender by a rebuilding Nets’ group.
The Nets had already traded away Mikal Bridges, Johnson’s shut buddy who got here with him within the Durant deal, to the New York Knicks final summer season, in a commerce that netted them 5 first-round picks.
Now, they get one other one, together with Porter, who averaged 18.2 factors in 77 video games, all begins, final season. Nevertheless, he injured his shoulder in a scramble for a unfastened ball within the first spherical of the playoffs and struggled along with his shot in Denver’s seven-game sequence loss to eventual champion Oklahoma City within the Western Convention semifinals.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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