In his Tuesday podcast on the Nets-Sixers trade, Zach Lowe disclosed that the Nets were in discussions with the Raptors about a deal that would have sent Nic Claxton to Toronto for a protected first round pick.
It was one of several “tidbits,” as Lowe called them, discussed on the podcast with Sports Illustrated’s Howard Beck. One of the others: the Nets had talked with Philadelphia and Houston about a trade that would have brought Ben Simmons, rather than James Harden, to Brooklyn a year ago.
Of the Claxton trade, here’s what Lowe told Beck.