dweaver99027 wrote:There is merit to that, but just imagine one team using tthe expansion team to off-load their highly-paid and not needed players. The expansion team would get talent,surely , but the team that managed to get rid of some fat contracts would have all the edge in the upcoming FA market.
Just think of what you are doing in NBA live dynasty when you want to get rid of salary.You just dump them to the Bobcats,right?
I haven't done that... And besides there are always the guys with the bad contracts available at each expansion draft. The teams don't protect them cause they would be happy to get rid of their contracts... I don't know if the salary cap is the cap of players chosen in the expansion... There were many established NBA players available with more or less bad contracts that haven't been performing up to par lately. Antoine Walker was available, Allan Houston etc. The Bobcats could have gone the other way and get a star or two to their team to start with, but they chose not to and because they chose not to, they will have cap space for the next couple of years to work the free agent market or some trades...
Charlotte has been playing rather good this season... I would have expected them to be worse, but the emergence of Brezec, Kapono and others has them winning a couple more games than I would have thought... Okafor is just good... They just need to get him some quality help and get it soon if they wish to improve...
It's easy to exploit the AI's stupidity as it does not have a set plan when heading for the off-season or does not think about the long term effects of trades etc. Sometimes you have to make a bad deal to players and then just trade them away before it bites you up the rear end. It's easy in the game, not so easy in real life...