BKNReceived
PKevin GarnettPPaul PierceBrooklyn Nets
PJason Terry
PD.J. White
Franchise reset · July 12, 2013
The trade that built Boston's next contender
Brooklyn went all-in on Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Boston turned the distant draft control it received into the foundation of another championship era.
See where this happened in the 2013 offseason →The original receipt
Every asset in the deal
The arrows show what each team received—not which direction a player left.
BOSReceived
Boston Celtics
PGerald Wallace
PKris Humphries
PKeith Bogans
PMarShon Brooks
PKris Joseph
#2014 first-round pick
#2016 first-round pick
S2017 first-round swap rights
#2018 first-round pick
Why it happened
The bet each side made
The Nets wanted an instant title team. The Celtics accepted a painful teardown in exchange for years of control over Brooklyn's first-round future.
Why history remembers it
The deal is the modern warning attached to trading unprotected future picks: Jaylen Brown and the chain that produced Jayson Tatum came directly from Brooklyn's draft control.
The family tree
Where the picks and rights went
Selections, swaps and later trades are traced separately so a downstream player is not mistaken for a direct one-for-one return.
- 01
2014 Brooklyn first · selected
James Young · No. 17
Boston used the first pick from the package directly.
- 02
2016 Brooklyn first · selected
Jaylen Brown · No. 3 →The unprotected pick landed third and became a future Finals MVP.
- 03
2017 swap · traded
Jayson Tatum · No. 3, plus another future first →Boston exercised the swap, then moved No. 1 to Philadelphia for No. 3 and another first. That later pick became Romeo Langford.
- 04
2018 Brooklyn first · traded
Kyrie Irving trade → Collin Sexton · No. 8
Boston sent the pick to Cleveland in the Irving deal; Cleveland selected Sexton.
What changed
The consequences
- Brooklyn won one playoff series with Garnett and Pierce.
- Brown and Tatum became the center of Boston's next era.
- The trade changed how fans and front offices value unprotected picks and swaps.
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