TRADED: Nets sending Patty Mills to Rockets in salary dump

Patty Mills, the Australian bronze medal winner and NBA champion, is being traded by the Brooklyn Nets to the Houston Rockets, ending his two-year stint with Brooklyn. NetsDaily has learned that the Nets are not taking a player back in the exchange, that like the Joe Harris trade on Friday, the Mills trade is essentially a salary dump. Mills will make $6.8 million this coming season.

Shams Charania of The Athletic was first to report the news.

Rockets are finalizing a deal to acquire Brooklyn’s Patty Mills via trade, sources tell me and @KellyIko.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2023 Mills, signed to a two-year taxpayers MLE in 2021, is the oldest Net at 34 years old. The Nets have…