Could Houston Rockets, Brooklyn Nets be trade partners once again?

Mikal Bridges #1 of the Brooklyn Nets and Cameron Johnson #2 of the Brooklyn Nets look on during the fourth quarter of the game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on March 03, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts.In a season with few on-court victories to celebrate, Houston Rockets fans watched along with glee in February when the Brooklyn Nets' super-team experiment came to a fiery end with the trade of Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns.

Brooklyn and Houston became officially intertwined in January 2021. Forced with a trade demand from James Harden, the Rockets reached a deal with the Nets to send the former MVP to Brooklyn in return for a near-historic return of draft capital. The Nets…