The 2016 NBA Draft has already been eventful, and it hasn’t even started.

Almost two years ago, the Cavaliers traded Andrew Wiggins, the recent number-one overall pick to the Timberwolves for Kevin Love. Today, in the first truly huge trade of the draft season, Derrick Rose becomes the next former number-one pick to be traded.

The Chicago Bulls will send Rose, along with Justin Holiday and a 2017 second round pick, to the New York Knicks for Robin Lopez, Jose Calderon, and Jerian Grant.

By all accounts, this trade would have been unthinkable when Rose was the youngest MVP in NBA history, but after a season where Rose was Joakim Noah era is over in Chicago at the same exact time as the Rose era ends. These are truly strange and unnerving times in Bulls basketball.

However, while Lopez is the piece of the deal that will start paying off now, Grant is a young point guard who might end up being the best part of the deal for Chicago. Grant was the 19th pick in the 2015 draft and was a successful player at Notre Dame.

In Grant’s junior year he was dismissed from Notre Dame for academics after 12 games. He was averaging 19.0 points and posting an Effective Field Goal Percentage of 59 percent that year. He got to come back and finish at Notre Dame in the 2014-15 season, and in his rookie campaign last year, his per-36-minute numbers were solid at 12.1 points, 5.0 assists and 4.1 rebounds.

If he develops into a starting point guard or better down the line, the Bulls got more for Rose than they likely imagined.

The Bulls are also now officially Jimmy Butler's team. With Rose gone, the two-way monster can only build on his two excellent seasons as the Bulls’ main option offensively.

Big Three in NYC?

On the other side of things, the Knicks now have an intriguing trio. It may not end up being a “Big Three,” but a team that starts Carmelo Anthony, Kristaps Porzingis, and Rose is a formidable force in the Eastern Conference if Rose is healthy and producing closer to MVP Rose than 2015-16 Rose.

Last year, Rose did play in 66 games, which was his highest total since his MVP season. He posted a respectable 16.4 points and 4.7 assists per game, and he also shot 47.6 percent between 10 and 16 feet last season, showing that his midrange game is starting to round back into form.

However, he has never had a season with an Effective Field Goal Percentage of more than 49.5 percent, so expectations likely need to be tempered for Rose to be the missing piece of the championship puzzle in New York. But things could also improve for Rose if he is healthy and not having to be the number-one or even the number-two option offensively in New York.

With Rose's and Anthony's contracts, the Knicks are in an interesting spot with the salary cap to say the least, as each account for at least 22% of the team's salary cap.

They also just got worse in defense and rebounding without Lopez, two areas they were below league average in already. They will need to spend what money they have wisely this summer.

Putting It Together

Times truly are changing in Chicago and New York. A fresh start in the Big Apple might be what Rose needs to return to as close to MVP form as possible.

Maybe Grant turns into a really good point guard and in the end the deal looks better for Chicago than it does today.

However, while it might take several years for this trade to be fully understood or graded, what’s clear is that after a drama-filled and emotionally rocky career in Chicago, the Rose era has come to an end in the Windy City for pennies on the dollar.