The Brooklyn Nets have traded Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for D'Angelo Russell and three second-round draft picks.
Australian NBA star Ben Simmons’ role is up in the air after the Brooklyn Nets made a trade for prodigal son D’Angelo Russell. The Nets shipped veteran forward Dorian Finney-Smith and backup guard Shake Milton — who was coming on of late — to Los Angeles for three second-round picks, Maxwell Lewis and former Net D’Angelo Russell. The Nets will get the Lakers’ second-rounders in 2027, 2030 and 2031. Russell — averaging 12.4 points and 4.
7 assists — was a key linchpin of general manager Sean Marks’ first rebuild in Brooklyn, before being moved in a sign-and-trade for Kevin Durant. It remains to be seen if he’ll be around for this second rebuild. And if he still harbors any hard feelings over being traded away the first time. In Finney-Smith, the Nets traded away their toughness on the court and the grownup in the room. Having one of the best seasons of his career, he was a team-leading plus-41, when no other Net was better than plus-2 coming into Sunday’s game in Orlando. Finney-Smith is shooting a career-high 44 percent from 3-point range. But he had a player option for next year that he was unlikely to pick up, meaning he could’ve left for nothing in unrestricted free agency in the summer.Marks and Nets owner Joe Tsai had an offer of two first-round picks for Finney-Smith as soon as they acquired him from Dallas for Kyrie Irving. But they were trying to compete behind Mikal Bridges at the time, and had no interest in a tear-down rebuild.Now they’re rebuilding, and once again Russell could be part of it. They’d acquired the young point guard from the Lakers and molded him into an All-Star
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