What will Jahlil Okafor make of his second chance?

The #FreeJah movement has finally come to fruition: Jahlil Okafor, along with Nik Stauskas and a 2019 second-round pick from the Knicks, was sent from Philadelphia to Brooklyn in exchange for Trevor Booker on Thursday.

Okafor is the headliner of the deal, as he’s spent two-plus seasons with the 76ers as the odd man out in their Trust The Process rebirth. Drafted with the third pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, Okafor will turn 22 next week but feels as though he’s been in NBA purgatory for a half decade. Much has been written about him since he joined the league, but he’ll finally have a chance to control his narrative with a rebirth of his own in Brooklyn.

There will be playing time and touches waiting for Okafor when he takes the floor with the Nets for the first time. If everything checks out medically, he should immediately slot into the starting role with Brooklyn, a team with just one long-term center on the roster in rookie Jarrett Allen. Timofey Mozgov, acquired over the summer as the price to get D’Angelo Russell, hasn’t played much at all this season. And while Tyler Zeller has started the past several games for Brooklyn, it’s unlikely he’ll stand in the way of Okafor’s path to the job.

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The elephant in the room that hangs over the rest of Okafor’s season is the fact that Philadelphia declined his fourth-year team option in October, which means he becomes an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season and the Nets cannot pay him more next year than he would have made under that declined option. They have a clear incentive to play him to get a feel for how much he can contribute to an NBA team and whether they want to bring him back or not, but they risk losing him for nothing this summer if he’s too good, unable to give him more than the $6.3 million he was slated to make on the option.

There’s a very small chance a team could see a half season from Okafor in Brooklyn and convince themselves to give him more than that amount, but it’s not impossible and it’ll be a line the Nets will have to toe.

While Okafor doesn’t quite fit the Nets’ run-and-gun, 3-point-heavy style they’ve adopted under Kenny Atkinson, there’s certainly an offensive role to be carved out for him. It would be a surprise if Okafor moves his game anywhere near the perimeter, but he’ll greatly benefit from playing with the Nets’ shooters, who will open up space for him to go to work in the paint. He was a dominant scorer during his one year at Duke, although that efficient output hasn’t quite followed him to the NBA, where he’s struggled with stronger and quicker defenders. More than half of his possessions in 2016-17 came via isolation or post-up. Will the Nets slow down their offense to give him his touches down low? Will he change his ways to become more of a mobile pick-and-roll big man and get in on the offensive glass a bit more?

In addition to Okafor, the Nets picked up fourth-year wing Nik Stauskas, who provides them with yet another shooter on the perimeter, and an unprotected 2019 second-round pick from the Knicks. Stauskas could be a restricted free agent at the end of this season and there’s a possibility the Nets will operate as an over-the-cap team to retain his rights, depending on what other possibilities become available. The second-rounder might be the most valuable part of the trade to the Nets, as the Knicks could easily remain around the bottom of the league and convey a top-40 pick to them.

For Philadelphia, this trade seems like a no-brainer. Booker will immediately step into their rotation while others at his position are out injured, though there will be decisions to make when the team is fully healthy again. Whether he’s a key part of the team on a nightly basis or a break-in-case-of-emergency veteran, Booker will certainly fill a role when the team needs him. They’ve effectively given up just that second-round pick, as Okafor and Stauskas were not part of the team’s present or future, to obtain Booker’s services for the rest of this season.

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The 76ers have big plans for the summer of 2018 and none of those plans included giving Stauskas his qualifying offer to stick on their books as a restricted free agent, which would have eaten up $11.4 million of their precious cap space. Booker will be an unrestricted free agent next summer, which allows Philadelphia to keep his hold on their books as long as they like, renouncing him when they get a commitment from one of the summer’s marquee free agents. The 76ers have already booked Joel Embiid’s max extension and the renegotiation and extension for Robert Covington, completed last month, but they still look to have room for a max free agent in July, thanks to their litany of young talent on rookie or minimum contracts.