Report: Nets Talking To Raptors About Expanding Deal

Although the original Kyrie Irving trade has now been made official, NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski tells us that the Brooklyn Nets spent the day talking with the Toronto Raptors about entering the trade as a 3rd team.

ESPN Sources: Nets-Mavs trade still hasn’t been made official with league office because Nets are evaluating opportunities to expand deal w/ a third team. Teams are expected to make two-way deal official in next couple of hours – unless Nets find something bigger to fold into it.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 6, 2023

Woj reported that the Nets were evaluating opportunities to expand the deal with a third team. And that team, from all indications, is the Toronto Raptors.

Insider Brian Windhorst has already dropped a hint that the Nets could be looking at turning around one of the assets they received from Dallas to the Toronto Raptors for OG Anunoby.

Marc Stein has another possibility that's been floated by the Nets:

Among the possibilities for expanding the Kyrie Irving-to-Dallas trade before this evening's scheduled trade call: League sources say that Brooklyn has explored the feasibility of packaging Spencer Dinwiddie and draft capital to Toronto in an attempt to acquire Fred VanVleet. https://t.co/L6kg8rNmoy
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) February 6, 2023

Stein also adds that the Nets "have been described to me as a team with Pascal Siakam interest ... although the signals entering the final week of trade season have reflected a reluctance from Toronto to this point to make Siakam available."

Now that the deal has been made official as the original two-team deal, Stein notes that Spencer Dinwiddie and Dorian Finney-Smith can still be traded before the deadline on separate deals, but can't be combined with other contracts.

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