Sources: Nuggets trading MPJ to Nets for Johnson

The Denver Nuggets are trading Michael Porter Jr. and an unprotected 2032 first-round prime to the Brooklyn Nets for Cam Johnson, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.

Both players tin go unrestricted escaped agents successful 2027. Porter Jr. is owed $38.3 cardinal adjacent play and $40.8 cardinal successful 2026-27.

Johnson is owed $21.1 cardinal adjacent play and $23.3 cardinal successful 2026-27.

Porter Jr. has spent his full six-year vocation with Nuggets, averaging 18.2 points and 7 rebounds successful 77 games for Denver past season.

Johnson enjoyed a breakout play successful his sixth twelvemonth successful the league, averaging a career-high 18.8 points per crippled portion shooting 47.5% from the tract and 39% from 3.

Johnson was included successful the blockbuster woody that sent Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns successful speech for Mikal Bridges. Since Bridges' departure to the New York Knicks past summer, Johnson took implicit the reins arsenic a superior scoring enactment for the rebuilding Nets.

In different determination connected Monday night, escaped cause Bruce Brown Jr. agreed to a one-year woody with the Nuggets, sources told Charania.