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Tim BontempsESPN
PHILADELPHIA — The Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers agreed to a blockbuster trade less just hours before Thursday’s deadline, with James Harden and Paul Millsap going to Philadelphia and Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round draft picks going to Brooklyn, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Brooklyn will receive Philadelphia’s unprotected 2022 first-round pick, with the right to defer it to 2023, as well as a top-8 protected 2027 first-round pick, according to Wojnarowski. That pick would remain top-8 protected in 2028, and will turn into one second — and $2 million in cash — if it doesn’t convey in either season, sources said.
The deal allows both teams to move on from unhappy superstars who had been seeking trades.
For Philadelphia, it means the end of what has been a months-long saga surrounding Simmons, who asked to be traded shortly after the Sixers lost to the Atlanta Hawks in the second round of the Eastern Conference…
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