NBA Free Agency Roundup: 12th July - Nets trade Jeremy Lin to Hawks; Isaiah Thomas signs with the Denver Nuggets 

Denver Nuggets shed salaries in a trade with Nets

#35 of the Denver Nuggets - Kenneth Faried

While the Denver Nuggets stole the headlines by signing IT, they made another deal in the day - a salary dump.

The Nuggets traded Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, a 2019 first-round pick and a 2020 second-round pick in exchange for the right to Isaiah Whitehead, whom they are reportedly going to waive.

Denver has agreed to send Kenneth Faried, Darrell Arthur, a 2019 protected first-round pick and a future second round pick to Nets for Isaiah Whitehead, league sources tell ESPN. Salary dump for Denver.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 13, 2018

While this a salary dump for Denver, this trade is yet another deal by the Nets' GM to garner picks, something they didn't have for the past four years. With them not really being very competitive on the floor and no huge financial commitments to any player, Brooklyn can continue to absorb contracts like these - Faried (expiring $13.7 million) and Arthur ( expiring $7.4 million) - in exchange for picks.