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Shams Charania, Senior NBA Insider
The Golden State Warriors are finalizing a deal to amass Brooklyn Nets level guard Dennis Schroder for De’Anthony Melton, sources instructed ESPN on Saturday.
The Warriors are additionally receiving one second-round decide from the Nets and sending three second-round picks to Brooklyn within the deal, sources mentioned.
Schroder has been top-of-the-line guards within the NBA this season, pushing the Nets into play-in competition within the Eastern Conference early within the season.
In his first full season in Brooklyn since being traded from the Raptors final yr, Schroder is averaging 18.4 factors and a career-high 6.6 assists in 33.6 minutes per recreation. He’s taken strides as an out of doors shooter as nicely, getting up a career-high 6.5 3-pointers per recreation on almost 39% taking pictures.
The Nets entered the weekend in tenth place within the convention and 4 losses again of the No. 6 seed.
Melton, signed to a one-year deal this offseason, went down with a torn ACL final month and is be out for the rest of the season. The Warriors have struggled with out him; after a scorching begin to the yr Golden State has misplaced seven of their final 9 video games.
Schroder, 31, is on an expiring contract price $13 million.
