Last July, the Nets made a series of moves that got them cap space, a Nuggets first rounder in this year’s draft; a Nuggets second in 2020; Kenneth Faried and ultimately Jared Dudley and other second from the Suns in 2021. It cost them Jeremy Lin, a pick swap of second rounders with the Hawks in 2023 along with a second in 2025.
And buried in the details of the three near-simultaneous deals, the Nets also received the Hawks’ draft rights to Isia Cordinier, a then 21-year-old French shooting guard who had had double knee surgery seven months earlier to cure chronic tendinitis, a condition that had bothered him his entire career, including two summer league stints with the Hawks in Las Vegas.