Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart expressed their surprise when the Knicks traded for Mikal Bridges, adding to the total number of former Villanova players on the Knicks roster to four.
Brunson and Hart had previously joked about teaming up with Bridges, but never actually believed it would come to fruition.
“I never thought it would happen because when was the last time the Nets had done a trade with the Knicks?” Brunson mentioned on The Roommates Show. “When we used to see each other after games, everyone would be like, ‘Oh these guys are recruiting.’ I was like, well, it’s never gonna happen.”
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Hart added to the conversation, “You don’t really think it’s gonna happen but you’re like, let me mess with Mikal because that’s my guy. Then Nets fans just be saying random stuff all the time, so it was poking fun at the Nets a little.”
Along with fellow Knick Donte DiVincenzo, Brunson, Hart and Bridges were part of the 2016 NCAA National Championship-winning team from Villanova.
These same players (excluding Hart) went on to win another national title in 2018.
The fact that they all ended up playing on the same NBA team is so unbelievable that even they cannot fathom it.
To acquire Bridges, the Knicks traded away Bojan Bogdanovic, Mamadi Diakite, Shake Milton, four unprotected first-round picks, an unprotected pick swap, a top-four protected first-round pick, and an unprotected second-round pick.
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