NBA Expansion Draft: Unprotected players

[Banana]

Salt Lake Tribune

(R) -- restricted free agent who, if chosen, automatically becomes unrestricted free agent
Atlanta: Alan Henderson.
Boston: Chucky Atkins, Brandon Hunter, Jumaine Jones, Ernest Brown (R), Michael Stewart.
Chicago: Antonio Davis, Jerome Williams, Eddie Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Marcus Fizer (R), Ronald Dupree (R).
Cleveland: Kevin Ollie, Ira Newble, Jason Kapono, Ruben Boumtje Boumtje (R).
Dallas: Danny Fortson, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Tony Delk, Antoine Walker.
Denver: Jeff Trepagnier (R).
Detroit: Elden Campbell, Corliss Williamson.
Golden State: Evan Eschmeyer, J.R. Bremer (R), Popeye Jones.
Houston: Adrian Griffin, Eric Piatkowski, Maurice Taylor.
Indiana: Scot Pollard, Primoz Brezec, Austin Croshere, Jamison Brewer (R), Anthony Johnson, James Jones.
L.A. Clippers: Keyon Dooling (R), Matt Barnes (R), Predrag Drobnjak, Eddie House, John Moore (R).
L.A. Lakers: Rick Fox, Derek Fisher (R), Jamal Sampson.
Memphis: Ryan Humphrey, Bo Outlaw (R), Troy Bell, Dahntay Jones (R), Theron Smith, Jake Tsakalidis, Lorenzen Wright.
Miami: Eddie Jones, Brian Grant, Loren Woods (R).
Milwaukee: Erick Strickland, Brian Skinner.
Minnesota: Ervin Johnson.
New Jersey: Kerry Kittles, Alonzo Mourning, Tamar Slay (R), Rodney Rogers.
New Orleans: Courtney Alexander (R), Maurice Carter (R).
New York: Allan Houston, Shandon Anderson, Penny Hardaway, Moochie Norris, Cezary Trybanski.
Orlando: DeShawn Stevenson (R), Reece Gaines, Britton Johnsen (R), Zaza Pachulia.
Philadelphia: Derrick Coleman, Greg Buckner, Aaron McKie, Todd MacCulloch, Marc Jackson.
Phoenix: Howard Eisley, Jahidi White.
Portland: Omar Cook, Dan Dickau, Desmond Ferguson (R), Eddie Gill, Ruben Patterson, Vladimir Stepania, Qyntel Woods.
Sacramento: Gerald Wallace.
San Antonio: Malik Rose, Matt Carroll, Charlie Ward.
Seattle: Richie Frahm (R), Jerome James, Calvin Booth, Vitaly Potapenko.
Toronto: Lamond Murray, Jalen Rose, Alvin Williams
Utah: Curtis Borchardt, Sasha Pavlovic
Washington: Juan Dixon, Jerry Stackhouse, Christian Laettner, Lonny Baxter (R)
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Who would you pick?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Antoine Walker!!? Jalen Rose?!
WTF?

 

[jdiddy]

Originally posted by: Gnote
Antoine Walker!!? Jalen Rose?!
WTF?

They are both good player but make superstar money which niether are.

 

[Imdmn04]

Big contracts man, teams want to dump big contracts so they can make room to attract free agents.

NBA is a business, retaining the better player sometimes is not the best business decision, as soon as you get this through your head, it is not hard to see at all why they are doing this.

 

[BaboonGuy]

Trust me New York wants Houston OUT. His contract is eating them alive.

 

[Liviathan]

I think Houston has a 17-18mil contract. Thats insane.

 

[neovan]

List of available players and their salaries

 

[Reliant]

Some people won't get taken becuase of their huge contracts, so they can be left unprotected and still be safe.

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: Reliant
Some people won't get taken becuase of their huge contracts, so they can be left unprotected and still be safe.

Exactly. A new team can't afford to spend all their cash on 1 or 2 superstars so these guys are left "unrestricted" b/c everyone knows the new team is not going to take them b/c of their huge contracts.

 

[kermalou]

I would take Corliss Williamson from Detroit

 

[MrCodeDude]

LOL. Golden State has a guy named Popeye. I already like him.

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
LOL. Golden State has a guy named Popeye. I already like him.

Did he even play this year?

 

[Liviathan]

A new team doesn't have as high a salary cap as an existing franchise so there is no way they can grab someone with such a huge contract.

 

[jarfykk]

Originally posted by: Liviathan
A new team doesn't have as high a salary cap as an existing franchise so there is no way they can grab someone with such a huge contract.

While they Bobcats do have a lower than normal cap of about $30 million, they can select as whoever they want in the expansion draft, even if it would put em over. They just wouldn't have any room for free agents.

The NBA salary cap is a soft cap, meaning you can go over, just lotsa rules to govern it.

 

[iamme]

"We're not interested in guys who have three or four years left on their contracts," Bickerstaff said. "The guys we're looking at all have one year remaining, but they're all very talented kids who need an opportunity."

looks like they're looking for contracts to dump (to free up cap space for FA) or for trade bait to other teams.

 

[Banana]

Originally posted by: Reliant
Some people won't get taken becuase of their huge contracts, so they can be left unprotected and still be safe.

I see. Some of those players have surprisingly big salaries!
Tariq Abdul-Wahad $21m 3yr
Danny Fortson $19m 3yr
Austin Croshere $27m 3yr
Shandon Anderson $23m 3yr
Calvin Booth $18m 3yr

Their teams are probably hoping the Hornets would take these deadweights.