The Brooklyn Nets are trying to facilitate a blockbuster trade involving Dwight Howard and Brook Lopez, according to Jarrod Rudolph of RealGM.com.
Rudolph is reporting that Nets general manager Billy King has been looking for a third team to help complete the deal. That's where Kevin Love and the Minnesota Timberwolves come in, according to Rudolph's sources:
According to sources, King was planning to contact the Minnesota Timberwolves in order to gauge their interest in a three-team trade that would send Kevin Love to the Lakers, Brook Lopez to the Timberwolves and Dwight Howard to the Nets. Other small pieces would need to be included, but the proposed trade was thought to be intriguing enough to start conversations in the Lakers front office that would force them to deal with Howard earlier than planned.
Rudolph did go on to say that sources indicated King abandoned the idea after it was revealed that Love would be out until mid-March with a broken right hand. King reportedly believed the Lakers would be interested in Love, but not if he was hurt.
While his thinking there would make sense, we can't ...
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