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Kevin Garnett (L) and Paul Pierce are headed to Brooklyn.
The Nets have talked about getting younger and more athletic this offseason.
Instead, they have acquired a pair of future Hall of Famers.
The Nets and Celtics spent this evening working on a blockbuster trade that will bring Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett — the final remnants of the Big Three Era in Boston — to Brooklyn next season.
The two sides spent the hours leading up to tonight's draft — which was held in the team's new home, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and where the Nets also had convened their war room — putting together the particulars of the trade, which was first reported by Yahoo!Sports.
The Nets will send Boston a package including Kris Humphries, Gerald Wallace and three first-round draft picks, one each in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
The Nets would have to send picks in alternating years, because the NBA's collective bargaining agreement doesn't allow teams to trade consecutive first-round picks. The Nets' 2014 pick would be whichever pick is lower between the Nets and Hawks, as the two teams agreed to swap first-round picks in both 2014 and 2015 as part of the trade that brought Joe Johnson to Brooklyn last summer.
For the Nets, such a trade has an obvious allure, as they would fill their hole at starting power forward with Garnett, who is a perfect complement to Brook Lopez and would give them a defensive backbone in the paint. Meanwhile Pierce, despite being set to turn 36 before next season, is coming off a 2012-13 season in which he averaged 18.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.8 assists.
The trade would allow the Celtics to start their rebuilding process in earnest, after grabbing an unprotected 2015 first-rounder as compensation for allowing Doc Rivers to escape from the remainder of his contract to coach the Celtics to become the Clippers' head coach and senior vice president of basketball operations earlier this week.
If the Nets were able to reel in both Garnett and Pierce, it would likely be the last major move the franchise would make this offseason, as Humphries' expiring contract was the major trade chip the Nets had this offseason.
Outside of signing 2011 second-round pick Bojan Bogdanovic using their taxpayer's mid-level exception, which starts at just over $3 million for next season, the Nets will likely be filling out their roster with minimum contracts, in addition to Duke's Mason Plumlee, who they drafted with the 22nd overall pickbut were expected to be quite active, as general manager Billy King is always one of the most active GMs in the league on draft night.
tbontemps@nypost.com
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