Joe Harris was the longest-tenured Net. Now he’s a Net no longer.
Brooklyn traded Joe Harris to Detroit on Friday afternoon, along with future two second-round picks.
The Nets will send the Pistons a 2027 second-round pick (from Dallas in the Kyrie Irving deal) and a 2029 second-rounder (from Milwaukee in the Jae Crowder swap).
The news was first reported by ESPN, and confirmed by The Post.
Brooklyn got “minimum considerations” — $110,000 (the minimum by NBA rules), per The Athletic — but created “massive flexibility this season” according to a source.
They used that flexibility to retain restricted free agent Cam Johnson with a four-year, $108 million deal.
The loss of Harris’ shooting also makes the Nets’ interest in Cleveland’s Cedi Osman — reported in Thursday’s Post — even more logical.
General manager Sean Marks picked Harris up off waivers in the summer of 2016, and he hadn’t played anywhere else since.
Joe Harris was the longest tenured Nets player before Friday’s trade. Corey Sipkinfor the NY POSTHarris — who turns 32 in September — led the league in 3-point shooting twice and became one of the best floor-spacers in the game, but multiple ankle surgeries and his body breaking down hurt his mobility and overall play the past two seasons.
During the Big 3 era of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and James Harden, Harris was the fourth player that Marks always consulted on big moves.
The sweet-shooting forward was well-liked within the organization and respected in the locker room.
Harris led the NBA in three-point shooting twice. Noah K. Murray-NY PostBut the tail end of the four-year contract he signed in 2020 started to become unwieldy for the team.
Harris was going to be on an expiring contract for $19,928,571 this upcoming season.
As such, the Nets will create a $19.9 million Traded Player Exception — and with $100,000 in wiggle room, the TPE will be worth $20 million.
Brooklyn already had a huge $18.1 million TPE, as well as smaller ones for $4.5 million and $2.6 million.
They cannot be combined, although the huge one is good for a year, meaning it could be used at the opening of 2024 free agency.
The move could also encourage Brooklyn to use the full Mid-Level Exception of $12.4 million, and the Bi-annual Exception, which is $4.4 million.
Harris’ career 43.7 percent shooting from 3-point range is the best of any active player in the NBA, and fourth-highest all time.
He won 3-point crowns in 2018-19 (47.4 percent) and again two years later (47.5 percent).
But after having arthroscopic ankle surgery in November 2021 and needing ligament reconstruction surgery in March 2022, last season was a struggle.
Losing Harris’ floor-spacing could make the 28-year-old Osman an even higher-priority target.
The Cavaliers’ longest-tenured player, just as Harris had been Brooklyn’s, Osman just had his $6.7 million contract for next season fully-guaranteed.
Cavs forward Cedi Osman would be the logical replacement for Joe Harris. APThe North Macedonian averaged 8.7 points last season in 20 minutes off Cleveland’s bench, shooting .372 percent from behind the arc.
At 6-foot-7, 230-pounds, Osman can play either small forward or a stretch four.






