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As a part of the Karl-Anthony Cities for Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo commerce, the Charlotte Hornets are receiving a handful of gamers and picks.
Per The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the Hornets will get DaQuan Jeffries, Charlie Brown and Duane Washington Jr. together with two second-round draft picks from the New York Knicks and one second-round choice from the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Charania additionally reported that Charlotte is sending James Nnaji to the Knicks to finalize the commerce.
This is a have a look at what every workforce will get as soon as the commerce takes place:
- Knicks: Karl-Anthony Cities, draft rights of James Nnaji
- Timberwolves: Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo, Keita Bates-Diop and 2025 first-round choose
- Hornets: 2025 second-round choose, 2026 second-round choose, DaQuan Jeffries, Charlie Brown Jr., Darius Washington and $7.2 million in money
The blockbuster commerce between the Knicks and Timberwolves comes after robust seasons from each groups.
New York reached the Japanese Convention semifinals and was a recreation away from advancing regardless of lacking a handful of key gamers because of harm, together with Randle.
Minnesota reached the Western Convention Finals for simply the second time in franchise historical past in 2024 behind an impressive postseason run from Anthony Edwards.
Although the Timberwolves discovered success final season, they noticed it greatest to separate up Cities and Rudy Gobert after the two-year experiment, they usually obtained an honest haul in return for the 28-year-old.
Randle spent a lot of final season off the court docket because of accidents, however he put up 24 factors and 9.2 rebounds per recreation when he was on it. Minnesota additionally obtained a powerful function participant in DiVincenzo, who put up 15.5 factors whereas capturing a career-high 40.1 p.c from deep.
Cities already performed alongside one of many league’s rising stars—Edwards—in Minnesota, and he’ll play alongside one other in New York in Jalen Brunson.
The title window is open for the Knicks after an MVP-caliber season from Brunson, they usually’ll hope the addition of Cities would be the lacking piece.
Whereas the Hornets did not land any huge names within the commerce, they picked up some picks which might be all the time beneficial for a workforce centered extra on the longer term than the current.
