Expansion Draft

[jbeecham]

Well this is from Hoopsworld's "The Daily" so I don't know how reliable it is, but it's not good for those of us hoping that Charlotte would take Penny off our hands.

Charlotte Bobcats - The Bobcats won't emulate the NFL Carolina Panthers, who built initially with veterans. The Panthers reached the NFC title game their second season, but collapsed the following season with an old, overpriced roster. "Say there's a good player out there who is 29 years old. By the time we get where we need to be, that guy is 35 or 36 years old," and ready to retire, head coach and general manager Bernie Bickerstaff said. Instead, the Bobcats will look for young players still trying to establish themselves. Somewhere, the Bobcats hope to find another "Flip" Murray, the second-year guard with Seattle who's been a top-10 scorer in Ray Allen's absence. Murray's dramatic rise from Division II Shaw makes him an anomaly, but in profile he is precisely what the Bobcats want out of the dispersal draft: He's 24, making a minimum NBA salary ($367,000) with an absolute passion for basketball.

 

[fordronken]

Yeah, but remember, Penny can play like, 10 to 12 more years, average 26 and 11 and is this year, as opposed to last year, absolutely, undeniably, 800 percent healthy.

 

[George O'Brien]

The Suns will get to protect 8 players. My guess is that they will be:

Marbury
Marion
Stoudemire
Johnson
Carbakapa
Voskuhl
White
Barbosa

AVAILABLE FOR THE EXPANSIN DRAFT

Hardawy
Jacobsen
Trybanski

(Willaims, Googs, and Archibald all have contracts that will expire next year and thus not be subject to the draft.

Of the AVAILABLE roster players, Jacobsen is likely to be the most attractive, but he is not likely to be amoung the top 12 players the Bobcats will be interested in.

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

I am assuming White will be unprotected instead of Casey.

The sole reasoning he is the least to be taken. The Bobcats have said time after time they do not want older players. Jacobson would be a young player they could maybe build with. Where as White is an expensive player they will most likely not retain.

I dont think the Suns will loose a player to the expansion draft, unless they want to of course.

 

[George O'Brien]

If white plays very often like he did against Dallas, he would be a very attractive expansion draft candidate. The Bobcats are unlikely to have a chance to get a credible big man for less than White,and could trade him easily enough if he continues playing well. Even mediocre big men are getting $7 - $9 million a year.

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

"Say there's a good player out there who is 29 years old. By the time we get where we need to be, that guy is 35 or 36 years old," and ready to retire, head coach and general manager Bernie Bickerstaff said.

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