Bill Simmons shreds Nets for ‘one of the worst trades of the decade'
After trading two-way wing Cam Johnson to the Denver Nuggets for Michael Porter Jr. and a 2032 first-round pick, Bill Simmons crushed Brooklyn for the deal.
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'Did they have to even put Cam Johnson in the trade?' the Ringer honcho said on his eponymous podcast. 'I just think that trade, the more I thought about it over the last five days, is one of the worst trades of the decade. You have to attach a pick to get rid of Porter, and I also didn't get anything for Cam Johnson? Nothing?'
Simmons added that the Nets are among the 'bleakest' situations that any team is facing in the NBA right now, along with the Raptors, Bulls and Pelicans.
Porter Jr. has dealt with numerous injuries in his career, dating back to the 2018 draft, which led to him falling to No. 14 despite expectations he would be selected in the top five.
3 Michael Porter Jr. had battled injuries his whole career.
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3 Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo crush the Nets for trading Cam Johnson for Michael Porter Jr.
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'It's bad. I thought it was a miracle trade for the Nuggets when it happened… Porter, I didn't think was tradable unless you took like a Bradley Beal. You know, $78 million for two years. He has a bad back. He has a f–ked up shoulder… For [the Nuggets] he was a complete impediment to making their roster better… here comes Brooklyn, and they're like, 'We just need one pick.' It's f–king crazy.'
It goes beyond the trade for Simmons, who also took aim at the Nets entering the 2025 draft with five first-round picks and making all of them to much criticism.
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3 Cam Johnson was a key piece to the Suns Western Conference Finals team.
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'I continue to think they did an awful job,' Simmons said. 'Like really bad. I didn't like their draft… I just don't understand anything they did.'
Johnson averaged a career-high 18.8 points per game on 39 percent shooting from 3 to go along with 3.4 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game while being known as a plus defender.
Porter Jr. put up 18.2 points per game on 39.5 percent from 3-point range with seven rebounds and 2.1 assists for the Nuggets and helped them win a title in 2023.
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The tricky part is Denver's financial picture; right now, the Nuggets only have $27 million in room below next season's projected second apron, and even that number assumes they waive Jonas Valančiūnas' non-guaranteed deal for $10 million and fill in the roster with minimum contracts. Even the time-honored Nuggets strategy of trading their first-round pick to dump a salary (hello, Zeke Nnaji) doesn't create much breathing room. It can't: The projected second apron is $219 million, and the Nuggets have four players making $164 million in 2026-27 by themselves. Yes, the Nuggets can legally pay Braun and exceed the second apron, but the Nuggets are also in the repeater penalty in 2026-27 (true even if they remain under the tax in 2025-26). Thus, spending past the second apron would be a very expensive proposition (like, $100 million tax bill expensive) for a team that historically has been extremely squeamish about spending. All that leads us back to a sweet spot in the low $20 million range and the Nuggets making their usual effort to backfill from there. Also, in these circumstances, it seems highly plausible that Denver would trade years and options for a lower annual number — consider, for instance, a four-year, $85 million deal with a fourth-year player option and a 15 percent trade kicker, one that gives Braun one more taste of the free-agency apple at age 28 if he performs. Walker Kessler, Jazz: Kessler is arguably the league's most fascinating extension situation, because of the multi-year speculation that the Jazz might trade him to recoup more draft picks that juice their rebuild. BORD$ values Kessler at $27.2 million, and recent history is that quality bigs have been paid; this valuation is essentially Myles Turner money. Kessler would be getting paid for what should be his prime seasons, and five years and $135 million hardly seems crazy to lock down the middle for a half-decade. Advertisement However, even if the Jazz believe in Kessler as their long-term center, there's a case for waiting. Kessler has an artificially low $14.6 million cap hold next summer, and the Jazz have enough cap room to keep his hold on the books and still go big-game hunting in free agency. They then could exceed the cap with a market-rate contract for Kessler that might start at double his cap hold, especially because it's likely to be front-loaded. That option is only available if they don't extend him this summer. Tari Eason, Rockets: Here's another interesting case. For starters, the Rockets may have inadvertently set the bar for Eason when they did Smith's deal. Given that Eason is a better player, it seems like Smith's deal (five years and $124 million) should be Eason's floor. Of course, realists will note that the true question is what the market will pay. While Eason's hyperactive defense and aggressive transition play make him valuable, his half-court offensive limitations likely put a cap on his future paydays similar to how it would for Atlanta's Daniels. The second issue here is the presence of both Smith and, more importantly, Durant; those two likely conspire to keep most of Eason's minutes from being at his best position (power forward) and instead push him into wing roles that tax his offensive skill set and thus may make him look worse when he hits the market next summer. BORD$ has a $21.7 million valuation on Eason, partly because his recent health track record has been shaky. But even if the Rockets and Eason had a workable number (say, three years for $65 million to $70 million), another issue crops up: The Rockets might not want to commit to paying him yet. Houston has multiple decisions on whom to pay in the coming seasons, and the Rockets will be particularly expensive in 2026-27 and 2027-28 regardless, assuming Durant signs an extension. Because of that, one wonders if Houston might choose to strategically cash in their Eason stock before next season, and if so, whether that would be more easily accomplished without an extension. Shaedon Sharpe, Trail Blazers: Sharpe's highlights are jaw-dropping, but the overall production is much more ordinary. BORD$ has a $14.2 million valuation, basically the non-taxpayer midlevel exception, and that feels about right. Sharpe hasn't proven he's a long-term starter, with the Blazers' second-half surge last season coming after he was replaced in Portland's starting five. Is Sharpe willing to take a deal for MLE-type money right now? I'm guessing he'd rather see if he can break out in 2025-26 and earn a bigger payday. 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Phoenix might be quite tempted to lock in MLE-type money for Williams (say, three years and $50 million?) that would help keep the newly money-conscious Suns out of the 2026-27 luxury tax, when they still will be subject to the repeater penalty. Bennedict Mathurin, Pacers: Welcome to Kuminga 2.0. The Pacers are a good team, and Mathurin has shown he's a situationally valuable player — a scorer with an astronomic free-throw rate but one who has struggled to embrace defending and passing with the same zeal. Remind you of anybody? Indiana is also just $19 million from next year's projected tax line, and that's before factoring in the salary of a possible lottery pick in 2026 (or, perhaps more importantly, the fact that the Pacers have no credible starting center). Do they want to commit to a number for Mathurin right now? On the other hand, Mathurin might put up some impressive (and market-inflating) counting stats during the coming Tyrese Haliburton-less gap year in Indy. Might the Pacers want to get ahead of that? As with Williams above, I think there's a pretty narrow band where it makes sense for both sides. The Pacers could opt for the 'Jalen Green special,' where Mathurin can re-enter free agency earlier in return for having a highly tradable deal in the summer of 2026, something around, say, three years and $50 million with a player option. But Mathurin might prefer to get buckets this winter and then test the market. Mathurin would also be more tradable for Indy at the deadline without an extension, and he's their best trade chip toward solving the center position. There's a lot to unpack, but I'm going to bet against a deal getting done. Jaden Ivey, Pistons: After a 2024-25 season that was mostly lost to injury, I have a hard time seeing how the Pistons and Ivey could come to a resolution on a long-term number. The Pistons are under no long-term cap pressure and can afford to wait a year and gather more information, even if it costs them a bit if Ivey breaks out. There's also a fascinating cap-nerd scenario where Detroit gives Ivey a one-year balloon payment next summer to set itself up for either in-season trades or 2027 cap space. Meanwhile, Ivey likely has just as much incentive to push up the value of his next contract rather than settle for what would likely be MLE-ish type money on an extension. For what it's worth, BORD$ only sees him as a $10 million value, and surely Ivey would frown at any figure in that range. Advertisement Nikola Jović, Heat: My numbers are much more bullish on Jović than I expected, partly because he's still only 22 years old. With BORD$ seeing him as a $15 million value, that implies that the Heat should try to lock him up to a long-term deal. Miami has some potential future tax issues to think about, but none of them are intractable, especially for the type of contract that the Heat would likely be looking at here. Jović isn't getting more than the MLE, but inking him now for four years in the $50 million to $60 million range could end up being a savvy long-term move. At that price, Jović can return positive value even if he never becomes a starter. Peyton Watson, Nuggets: It's hard for me to completely rule out the idea of Denver extending Watson because of the premise noted above that the Nuggets extend everybody. That said, Watson might be an exception. He's shown promise as a defensive stopper and transition energizer, but he's not quite a core rotation guy. He also eats second; the Nuggets have to take care of Braun's situation first, and there may not be any money left over on the 2026-27 books once they're done. Or, more likely, creating that room may require some other roster gymnastics between now and next July. Watson's BORD$ value of $8.3 million is in the range of players who usually don't get extended. He's also basically the Nuggets' only tradable non-core asset given that they've already burned through all their draft picks. Crazier things have happened, and I could see some kind of resolution around three years and $25 million to $30 million if Braun's deal comes in on the lower side of expectations, but I'd bet more on this one heading to 2026. Jeremy Sochan, Spurs: I would like Sochan's odds of an extension much more if he's traded before the season starts, but I don't think he fits in San Antonio. He's already proven that he's neither a point guard nor a backup center nor a power forward who can share the floor with Victor Wembanyama. We're running out of things he can be. That said, on the right team, I still think Sochan is something. With a BORD$ value of $9.6 million, I could see a team trying to acquire him before October and inking something like a three-year, $30 million extension where they bet on his upside. But would Sochan even sign that type of deal right now rather than bet on free agency? Maybe not. Advertisement Dalen Terry, Bulls: Terry has struggled to carve out a role despite a less-than-imposing rotation of wings ahead of him in Chicago, and BORDS$ only has a $5 million value on him for the coming season. Nonetheless, Terry's people should bravely ask for five years and $90 million with a player option and see if he can get the Patrick Williams Special. In all seriousness, Terry's inability to scratch out a role and the Bulls' cap room scenarios for 2026 both make it seem highly unlikely he'll receive an extension. Ochai Agbaji, Raptors: Acquired in a still-baffling swap with Utah that cost the Raptors the 29th pick in 2024 (used on Isaiah Collier), Agbaji teases by sometimes looking the part of a 3-and-D wing but lacks the shot-creation juice and ball-hunting instincts to be more than a back-of-rotation filler piece. BORD$ only has a $3.3 million valuation for Agbaji for the coming season, and Toronto's luxury-tax headwinds (the Raptors already are just $10 million from the projected 2026-27 tax line) don't portend the Raps shelling out for a player of his ilk. Ousmane Dieng, Thunder: Dieng will go down in history as the dude the Thunder traded three firsts to select right before they took Jalen Williams. As for the rest of his Oklahoma City legacy, I wouldn't get too excited. There's a sliver of a chance Dieng could sign a cheapo extension if he's traded somewhere else before opening day, but in Oklahoma City? Between the Thunder's roster crowd and cap issues and Dieng's lack of any viable role, the odds of an extension here seem microscopic. Malaki Branham, Wizards: Branham somehow made it to the fourth year of his rookie contract despite rating as well below replacement level in each of his first three seasons. He seems a 50-50 shot to make Washington's opening day roster after he was sent to the Wizards as salary ballast so the Spurs could add a 34-year-old backup center. So, yeah … not real likely. (Top photo of Tari Eason and Jalen Williams: Ethan Miller / Getty Images)
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Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 21 - LaMarcus Aldridge (2021-22)
The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the "New Jersey Americans". Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today. To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise's jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. The 22nd of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 21, which has has had a total of 26 players wear the number in the history of the team. The 23rd of those players wearing No. 21 played in the Brooklyn Nets era, big man alum LaMarcus Aldridge. After ending his college career at Texas, Aldridge was picked up with the second overall selection of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls. The Dallas, Texas native would play the first nine seasons of his pro career with the Portland Trail Blazers instead after a draft night deal. He would also play for the San Antonio Spurs before he signed with Brooklyn in 2021 for the final two seasons of his NBA career. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Aldridge wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 12.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 1.0 blocks per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
