The Nets are busy ahead of the NBA trade deadline.
Brooklyn found a trade partner for Spencer Dinwiddie, trading Dennis Schroder for the 30-year-old point guard.
Veteran Thad Young is also scheduled to join the team, ESPN first reported and the Post confirmed.
nets Then traded for power forward Royce O’Neal. According to The Athletic, the Suns received three second-round picks.
O’Neal, who averaged 7.4 points per game, will be an asset to a Suns team aiming for a championship.
Dinwiddie had been Brooklyn’s starting point guard since arriving from Dallas in the Kyrie Irving deal at last year’s trade deadline, but lost what was essentially his desired position to Ben Simmons at the beginning of the season. , only regained it due to Simmons’ injury. .
He also acknowledged that he did not get the long-term contract extension he had hoped for from the Nets and was not included in the Nets’ rebuilding plan.
While Dinwiddie’s play has significantly deteriorated, so has his value on the trade market.
Schroder is averaging 13.7 points and 6.1 assists while shooting 35 percent from 3-point range.
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He played for the Lakers last season, helping Los Angeles reach the Western Conference Finals, and signed with Toronto this summer as a mid-major exception.
He started the first 29 games until the Raptors opted to change their rotation and moved him to the bench.
Young, 35, will be making his second tour with Brooklyn, spending the 2014-15 season and part of the 2015-16 season with the Nets.
Schroder signed a two-year, $26 million contract during the offseason. Young has an expiring $8 million contract.
Dinwiddie is on a $20.3 million expiration contract.
