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Knicks land Bulls’ Rose in 6-player deal
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CHICAGO Bulls playmaker Derrick Rose, a former NBA Most Valuable Player nagged by knee injuries for years, was traded to the New York Knicks on Wednesday in a six-player deal.
The move came on the eve of the NBA Draft, when the Knicks will look for more help after missing the playoffs last season.
Rose, fellow guard Justin Holiday and a second-round 2017 NBA Draft pick were sent to New York by the Bulls in exchange for center Robin Lopez and guards Jerian Grant and Jose Calderon.
“Knowing Derrick as I do makes this trade a hard one,” Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said.
“Everyone knows him as the local kid who became MVP for his hometown team, but not everyone got to know him like I did.”
Oft-injured Rose, 27, tore his left anterior cruciate knee ligament in the 2012 playoffs and tore the meniscus in his right knee early in the 2013-14 campaign. He averaged 16.4 points and 4.7 assists for the Bulls last season.
The Knicks add backcourt depth with Holiday, 27, who averaged 4.5 points and 1.7 rebounds a game last season after coming to Chicago in a deal with the Atlanta Hawks.
Calderon, who turns 35 in September, was New York’s starting point guard and averaged 7.6 points and a career-worst 4.1 assists per game last season. Grant, 23, added 5.6 points and 2.3 assists a game in 2015-16 while Lopez, 28, averaged 10.3 points and 7.3 rebounds last season.
The Hawks traded point guard Jeff Teague to the Indiana Pacers as part of a three-team deal that sends point guard George Hill from Indiana to the Utah Jazz, who will send the 12th pick in the NBA Draft to Atlanta.
Teague, 27, averaged 15.7 points and 5.9 assists last season in leading the Hawks to a 48-34 record.
Hill, 30, averaged 12.1 points and 3.4 assists with the Pacers last season.
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