41 years in the making: A look back at every Knicks-Nets trade

When the Knicks traded for Mikal Bridges two weeks ago, it was a massive paradigm shift.

For a long, long time, the Nets and the Knicks refused to trade each other. As former Nets assistant general manager Bobby Marks put it, the teams just don’t do business with each other. He remarked in January that there were no trade discussions between the organizations in the 20 years he was in the Nets’ front office, working his way up from a public relations intern to the assistant GM role from 2010-15.

It wasn’t always like this. When the New York Nets joined the NBA as part of the NBA-ABA merger in 1976, they were very open to making trades, albeit minor ones, with their crosstown rivals. That…