Nets trade of Mikal Bridges to the Knicks is now complete

The Brooklyn Nets stunned the entire NBA landscape on June 25 when they traded Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks for forward Bojan Bogdanovic and a slew of draft picks. However, unlike the trade that the Nets made with the Houston Rockets that same night, the trade of Bridges to the Knicks was not finalized due to some financial issues that New York had to figure out if they were going to be able to make more moves later.

All of that changed on Thursday when the player that the Knicks would be sending back to the Nets for salary-matching purposes was revealed not to be Miles McBride, but Shake Milton. New York was able to make the money work without being capped at the first apron by signing Milton to a three-year, $9 million deal before sending him to Brooklyn along with forward Mamadi Diakite.

While this trade has essentially been finalized for a little over one week, there was still some matters that had to be taken care of behind the scenes in order for it to actually work in a way that benefits both teams. With that being said, here is what the entire trade looks like now that it’s assumed to be finalized along with some additional thoughts.