when will the nba release the list of all the players left unprotected for the expansion draft? I'm interested to know because those players can probobly be had for AG + our TE....either through the bobcats or directly from that team.
Everything one needs to know about the summer of '04...... http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=1342351#post1342351
thanks for the link however, there is no date posted for when the teams have to have their list of protected/unprotected players for the expansion. but i can now guess that its before june 22
lol i will go through it again....but u do know u couldve just posted it right now instead of having it haunt me.
Is the list ever release to the public? It would make sense if the list is kept confidential. For example we left Steve unprotected and it hurt his feelings and he demands a trade.
surely if Steve was left unprotected the Bobcats would grab him and everybody would know the rockets left him unprotected... now if the Bobcats didn't take him then that would be crushingly amazing!!!
Poster kgw has it embedded in one of the very last posts in the thread: "Nobody posted an answer, so I did the research, and will now share it. The deadline to designate protected and unprotected players is June 12." So now you really do have every important date for the Summer of '04! I don't have a link but here's a quote from the April 16th Washington Times: "Teams are forbidden to make public the names of the players they plan to expose to the draft. However, it is likely the Wizards will place Christian Laettner, who was suspended this season for failing to comply with the league's drug policy, on the unprotected list."
What can we do if Bobcats grab our unprotected player? Can we sign a new guy with the same salary of that Thanks in advance.
GATER: thanks a lot i must have read that thread like 4 times...but it was late when i was reading it here so i might have gotten lazy. also - the knicks have already said who they will and won't protect, so i dont think its really "forbidden". one last question: if the bobcats take, lets say spoon, do we get a TE out of them taking our player?
smoothie and dragon167 - Say the Rockets leave Spoon unprotected and the Bobcats pick him. The Rox are awarded a $5.9m TE (Spoon's 04-05 salary) but this TE can not be combined with our $6.99m Rice/Amaeche trade exception. From the expansion rules: "A team with a Team Salary above the Salary Cap will receive a Trade Exception to replace a player (other than a restricted free agent) selected from its unprotected list."
This reduces the value of our TE and actual chances of us using ours as many teams will have TE's after the expansion draft, not just houston
many teams will have TE's...however, how many high priced players will the cats take? i don't see them taking a player that makes anywhere near our $7Mil TE. also the fact that we have our TE before the expansion draft, unlike the teams that will get theirs after one of their players are taken, makes our TE valuable to the cats who have a short cap and can use an extra 7 mil.
Exactly. CHA fundamentally wants/needs to field a team of 14 and can't go much beyond $30m. That makes their average contract in the $2m-$3m range. The assigned player exception is worth $1.6m on a player making $10m. The TE's being "awarded" for losing a player to CHA are far closer to the APE than they are our $6.99m Rice TE.
