Shake Milton gets new lease on NBA life with Brooklyn Nets

There were a lot of sneaky little benefits the Brooklyn Nets extracted from the Knicks in the Mikal Bridges trade in July. In addition to all those first rounders, the Nets got their own second rounder back. The trade generated a $23.3 million trade exception, second biggest in the NBA. Throw-in Mamadi Diakite had a partially guaranteed deal that Sean Marks was able to quickly move for Ziarie Williams and a 2030 second rounder in a deal with Memphis Grizzlies. Diakite is now playing for the Phoenix Sun’s G League affiliate while Williams is a member of the Nets rotation.

Then, there was the final piece of the deal: On July 6 Brooklyn took on Shake Milton, then 27, in a sign-and-trade with…