Brooklyn Nets flipping newly acquired Jae Crowder to Milwaukee Bucks: Report

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Brooklyn Nets’ fireplace sale continues.

After buying disgruntled ahead Jae Crowder from Phoenix as a part of the early-Thursday Kevin Durant megadeal that despatched ripples via the NBA, the Nets are reportedly flipping Crowder to the Milwaukee Bucks for 5 second-round picks in a commerce that will get expanded to incorporate a 3rd workforce.

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A key a part of the Suns’ rotation final 12 months, Crowder has not performed throughout the 2022-23 season after he and the group mutually agreed he’d sit out whereas the workforce discovered a commerce companion.

Over the previous few weeks, Crowder — who felt undervalued and was upset about dropping his beginning spot in Phoenix — had repeatedly been linked to the Bucks, one of many East’s higher echelon groups trying to enhance their roster for one more title pursuit.

Crowder has performed for seven totally different groups throughout his 10-year NBA profession. He appeared within the NBA Finals with Miami and Phoenix in back-to-back seasons after which helped the Suns to a 64-win marketing campaign in 2021-22 earlier than dropping his beginning job to teenager Cam Johnson.

Regardless that the Nets acquired Crowder for Durant, the workforce’s newfound logjam on the wing spot — Dorian Finney-Smith, Royce O’Neale, Joe Harris, Mikal Bridges and Johnson — made it possible that Crowder can be despatched elsewhere by Thursday’s 3 p.m. deadline.

With a number of strikes within the final week, Brooklyn has fully overhauled its roster, dealing away stars Kyrie Irving and Durant. They may nonetheless proceed to pursue different strikes in hopes of restoring their misplaced draft capital from earlier trades. However Yahoo Sports activities reported the Nets haven’t any intention of dealing newly acquired Bridges, the player-specific centerpiece of the Durant blockbuster.

Sources say the Cavs had no real interest in Crowder, who performed 53 video games with Cleveland within the 2017-18 season.

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