Sergio de Larrea was announced as a member of the New York Knicks during Tuesday's draft, but he will instead head to the Dallas Mavericks after a four-team Lakers Knicks Mavericks Suns Trade shifted the pick order again. The New York Knicks began the night with the No. 24 pick and ended up moving into the second round as the deal rippled across the draft board.
That matters because the trade changed more than one team’s night. Cameron Carr went to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Phoenix Suns ended up with Koa Peat at No. 30, and the Knicks no longer held the player they were briefly connected to on the broadcast. In a draft that moved fast and changed hands in real time, de Larrea’s name was tied to New York for a moment before the rights moved on.
De Larrea is 20 years old and had already built a profile that made the move easy to track. During the 2025-26 campaign for Valencia in Liga ACB play, he averaged 9.7 points, 3.7 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game while connecting on 40.7 percent of his three-pointers. He helped lead Valencia to the Spanish ACB playoffs, and Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman pointed to Bogdan Bogdanović as a pro comparison while highlighting de Larrea's consecutive years of accurate three-point shooting and strong playmaking rates.
That profile is what made the draft-night confusion notable. A player can be announced with one team and still end up elsewhere once the full trade is completed, and that is what happened here. The Knicks’ initial connection to de Larrea gave way to the Mavericks once the four-team deal settled, while New York used the trade path to move into the second round instead of holding the No. 24 pick.
What remains unanswered is the exact mechanism that moved the rights so quickly among the Knicks, Lakers, Mavericks and Suns. The destinations are clear. The full terms were not. What is clear now is that de Larrea leaves Tuesday’s draft as a Maverick, not a Knick, and the rest of the trade will be judged by whether those shifted picks and player rights pay off later.
