Expansion Draft Simulation (Finished!)

As you can read in the other topic...the Expansion Draft rules have been announced. I think it'd be fun to try and simulate the Expansion Draft. I don't want to clutter the other topic so let's do it here.

Of course...it would be a lot of work for one person to look at the rosters of all 29 teams and decide who to protect and who not to protect. But we can do it here and it might be fun.

Everyone can pick one team...take a look at it's roster (or don't if you know it well enough) and post what 8 players you're protecting and what players are left unprotected. In case of a conflict...the person to post first with a team's roster is the one we'll use.

If any team's are left untaken after two days (or maybe three)...then someone else can do a second team.

I will be the Bobcats...and I'll draft 12 guys from who's available and we can get a good idea of what kind of roster they can get. We'll also assume draft rights aren't up for grabs (example: Milos Vujanic does not have to be protected by the Suns).

Example: The New Jersey Nets

PROTECTED
C Jason Collins
PF Kenyon Martin
SF Richard Jefferson
SG Kerry Kittles
PG Jason Kidd
C Aaron Williams
SG Lucious Harris
PG Zoran Planinic

UNPROTECTED
C Alonzo Mourning
PF Rodney Rogers
PF Eddie Griffin
SF Tamar Slay
SG Brandon Armstrong
PF Brian Scalabrine

This is just an example...if someone wants to do the Nets we'll use their protection scheme.

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Los Angeles Lakers:

Protected:

Shaquille O´Neal
Kobe Bryant
Karl Malone
Gary payton
Devean George
Derek Fisher
Stanislav Medvedenko
Rick Fox

Unprotected:

Kareem Rush
Luke Walton
Horace Grant
Brian Cook
Jamal Sampson
Bryon Russell
Maurice Carter

Cavaliers
Protected

SG James
SG Wagner
PF Boozer
C Diop
SF Williams
SF Newble
PF Battie
PG McInnis

Unprotected:
C Ilgauskus
C Boumtje
PG Bremmer
PG Ollie
SF Kapono

SPURS

protected:

Bruce Bowen
Tim Duncan
Emanuel Ginobili
Ron Mercer
Radoslav Nesterovic
Tony Parker
Malik Rose
Hidayet Turkoglu

unprotected:

Devin Brown
Alex Garcia
Jason Hart
Robert Horry
Sean Marks
Charlie Ward
Kevin Willis

Toronto Raptors:

Protected:
Vince Carter
Chris Bosh
Donyell Marshall
Jalen Rose
Alvin Williams
Morris Peterson
Lonny Baxter
Michael Bradley

Unprotected:
Lamond Murray
Milt Palacio
Roger Mason
Michael Curry
Jerome Moiso
Robert Archibald

Philadelphia 76ers
Protected:
Allen Iverson
Glenn Robinson
Eric Snow
Aaron McKie
Kenny Thomas
Derrick Coleman
Kyle Korver
Samuel Dalembert

Unprotected:
Marc Jackson
John Salmons
Greg Buckner
Willie Green
Todd MacCulloch
Aamal McCaskill
Zendon Hamilton

Actually It's useless to do Philly cause they will trade Snow and Coleman so as well they can be unprotected.

Chicago Bulls:

Protected:
Eddy Curry
Tyson Chandler
Jamal Crawford
Kirk Hinrich
Jerome Williams
Antonio Davis
Chris Jefferies
Scottie Pippen

Unprotected:
Corie Blount
Rick Brunson
Ronald Dupree
Kendall Gill
Marcus Fizer
Eddie Robinson (They will pray he's picked...)

Portland Trail Blazers

Protected
Derek Anderson
Darius Miles
Zach Randolph
Ruben Patterson
Qyntel Woods
Dale Davis
Travis Outlaw
Damon Stoudamire

Unprotected
Rasheed Wallace
Vladimir Stepania
Wesley Person

He might be bad, chemistry wise...but not as bad as Miles basketball wise...they would NEVER in their right senses protect MILES and NOT protect Wallace.

He might be bad, chemistry wise...but not as bad as Miles basketball wise...they would NEVER in their right senses protect MILES and NOT protect Wallace.

Actually they are a) still trying to trade Sheed (most recent rumour has him going to GS for van Exel and Dampier) and b) is he a Freeagent anyways.

Anyway ... I take the Hornets.

Protected.

Jamal Magloire
Baron Davis
PJ Brown
David West
George Lynch
Jamal Mashburn
Courtney Alexander
Darrell Armstrong

Unprotected

Stacey Augmon
Sean Rooks
Steve Smith
Robert Traylor
David Wesley
Bryce Drew

Except David Wesley all of the unprotected are FA's after the season, with Augmon and Drew maybe shipped away before the trading deadline. So the only real unprotected player is David Wesley.

TheBigEasy

fyi: players that will be free agents this offseason do not take up a spot on the protected list

so jackal- that opens up one more spot for the protected list for bulls

Ohw, sorry, didn't know that.

Who should they keep? Fizer? I don't know...

Since I did this earlier...Kings:

Protect
Pedja, Divac, Webber, Christie, Bibby, Miller, Jackson and Songailia

I'd say Songailia over Wallace because he's become so valuable with front line injuries + Divac's impending break to play in Europe...

Washington Wizards

Protected

Kwame Brown
Gilbert Arenas
Jared Jeffries
Steve Blake
Etan Thomas
Brendan Haywood
Jarvis Hayes
Larry Hughes

Unprotected

Juan Dixon (sadly)
Mitchell Butler
Christian Laettner (Charlotte might take so they can release him. for expansion teams they dont have to pay people they release)
Chris Whitney
Torraye Braggs (if he is resigned for rest of season)
Jerry Stackhouse (risky, but I think Grunfield will hope Bobcats don't want his contract)
Lonny Baxter

(Edit: Brevin Knight replaced by Lonny Baxter.)

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Portland Trail Blazers

Protected
Derek Anderson
Darius Miles
Zach Randolph
Ruben Patterson
Qyntel Woods
Dale Davis
Travis Outlaw
Damon Stoudamire

Unprotected
Rasheed Wallace
Vladimir Stepania
Wesley Person

damn u took my team


Denver Nuggets
Proteced
Melo
Andre Miller
Earl Boykins
Nene
Marcus Camby
Voshon Lenard
Chris Andersen
Jon Barry

Unprotected
Mark Pope
Jeff Tregenier
Fransico Elson
Rodney White
Ryan Bowen

Funny thing is a while a ago there was a thread and I made a list for all the teams, but I thought no one would care so I just scraped it.

Also you guys gotta look at players contracts that are ending and restricted free agents, b/c teams can't protect unrestricted free agents, and the Bobs also can't sign them


The Bobcats will get a list of players available for the expansion draft on June 12. Each NBA team can protect eight players, above and beyond their unrestricted free agents. The two teams in the NBA Finals won't have to submit their protected list until after the Finals.

That 10-day window from the time the Bobcats see who's left unprotected, and the time they have to make their picks will be critical. That's when the Bobcats will make the decisions on whom they want to take in the expansion draft - and perhaps whom they might take and then trade.

All sorts of wheeling and dealing is possible. The Bobcats can make deals with various clubs not to draft a certain unprotected player, for example. They can make deals to draft an unprotected player and send him to another team. It's conceivable that they could even take one player and combine him with the fourth pick in the NBA draft to trade up two nights later.

"We're going to have our rankings done long before we get the unprotected list," Bickerstaff said. "So as soon as we get that list, we can start wheeling and dealing from jump street. I'd say from day one, we'll start feeling teams out and seeing what kind of leverage we're going to have, and which teams have interest in certain people.

The speculation around the league is that several teams will leave high-priced older players unprotected, hoping to clear up salary-cap space. The Bobcats' general philosophy seems to be geared to bringing in younger, unproven players

New York Knicks

Protected
Stephon Marbury
Kurt Thomas
Allan Houston
Keith Van Horn
Dikembe Mutombo
Anfernee Hardaway
Frank Williams
Mike Sweetney

Unprotected
Michael Doleac
Moochie Norris
Shandon Anderson(contract!)
Othella Harrington
Cezary Trybanski

im not too sure about sweetney being protected and doleac being unprotected. He is a good backup C and gives them some versitality with Mutombo

Indiana Pacers

Protected

Jermaine O'neal
Reggie Miller
Fred Jones
Al Harrington
Jonathan Bender
Jamaal Tinsley
Ron Artest
Scott Pollard

Unprotected

Kenny Anderson
Jamison Brewer
Primoz Brezec
Jeff Foster
Anthony Johnson
James Jones

Boston Celtics

Protected:
Paul Pierce
Ricky Davis
Jiri Welsch
Raef LaFrentz
Mike James
Walter McCarty
Mark Blount *
Jumaine Jones

Unprotected:
Vin Baker
Chris Mihm **
Chris Mills **
Brandon Hunter
Kendrick Perkins
Marcus Banks *
Michael Stewart **

* Mark Blount has a player option in his contract at the end of this season, so he may or may not be a free agent. If he is, I predict the Celtics would protect Banks.

** Denotes free agent in 2004

Detroit Pistons

protected
Ben Wallace
Rip Hamilton
Chauncey Billups
Tayshuan Prince
Mehmet Okur
Darko Milicic
Corliss Williamson
Chucky Atkins

Unprotected
Darvin Ham
Elden Campbell
Bob Sura
Tremaine Fowlkes
Lindsey Hunter
Rebraca

I think Sura is a FA, and Rebraca may be protected instead of Atkins

Phoenix Suns:

Protected:
Amare Stoudemire
Shawn Marion
Joe Johnson
Leandro Barbosa
Zarko Cabarkapa
Casey Jacobsen
Maciej Lampe
Jake Voskuhl

Unprotected:
Tom Gugliotta (FA)
Antonio McDyess (FA)
Howard Eisley
Jahidi White
Donnell Harvey (FA)

fun fun.

Damn you andrew you took the celts. so...

Dallas Mavs:

Protected:

Steve Nash
Michael Finely
Antawn Jamison
Dirk Nowitzki
Antoine Walker
Josh Howard
Danny Fortson
Tony Delk

Unprotected:

Tariq Abdul-Wahad
Travis Best
Shawn Bradley
Marquis Daniels
Mamadou N'diaye
Eduardo Najera
Jon Stefansson
Scott Williams

Phoenix Suns:

You took them.

I guess I'll take the...
Miami Heat

Protected:
Lamar Odom
Eddie Jones
Caron Butler
Brian Grant
Dwyane Wade
Udonis Haslem
Rafer Alston
Malike Allen

Unprotected:
Samaki Walker
John Wallace
Loren Woods
Rasual Butler
Wanh ZhiZhi
Bimbo Coles
Jerome Beasley

Teams Remaining:
Atlanta Hawks
Golden State Warriors
Houston Rockets
LA Clippers
Memphis Grizzlies
Milwaukee Bucks
Minnesota Timberwolves
Orlando Magic
Seattle Supersonics
Utah Jazz