When the smoke cleared after the 2023 NBA trade deadline, and the post-mortem reporting started to trickle out, it sounded like the Nets might’ve been nuts. You’re telling me a team offered Brooklyn four first-round picks for Mikal Bridges — a Very Nice Young Player who’d been a Net for about as long as it takes to nuke a Hot Pocket after coming aboard in the Kevin Durant blockbuster — and that Sean Marks turned it down?
Yes, the specifics matter — whose picks they were, which years they’d come in, what levels of protection would’ve been on them, etc.