Brooklyn Nets To Take Trade Offers for Recent NBA Champion & Top Scorer

The Brooklyn Nets will be one of the teams to watch as we approach the trade deadline. Both as a true seller, and also as a team with cap space to help facilitate other deals as a third team in a deal.

But they will have one of the top players on the trade market, as we've learned that they are willing to listen on former NBA champion Michael Porter Jr.

The Brooklyn Nets appear willing to listen to trade offers for Michael Porter Jr., per @erikslater_

“Porter Jr. is expected to draw interest on the trade market amid his red-hot start. The Nets are likely to gauge offers for the veteran, whom they acquired alongside an… pic.twitter.com/pDZdgrRE2y
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Erik Slater of ClutchPoints writes that Porter Jr.'s career-year with the Nets is spoiling the team's tanking plans, so a move away from him is a likely occurrence.

"Brooklyn operated this offseason with a tanking agenda in mind. However, Porter Jr.'s elite play has the rebuilding squad on the outside looking in regarding top-three lottery odds."

Porter's career year has taken the Nets out of the tankathon

A strange thing happened along the way to a top lottery pick for the Nets. After losing their first seven games of the season, they've only been half-bad ever since, thanks to Porter's 25.6 points per game. Now at 7-18, they have a record better than five other teams, lowering their odds of getting the top pick.

But Porter is just 27, and has maintained a 40% clip from long range throughout his career. He was an NBA champion with the Denver Nuggets just 2 1/2 years ago. Do the Nets potentially keep him as a building block? Or reap the benefits of selling high on an excellent asset having a career year?

Porter, as Slater notes, is one of only five players in the NBA who are averaging 25+ points, 49%+ from the floor and 39%+ from three. The other four? You may have heard of them: Nikola Jokic, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Giannis Antetokounmpo and Anthony Edwards.

"Whether the Nets choose to sell high or retain him as part of their next iteration will be among the NBA's top storylines leading up to the trade deadline," concludes Slater.