Post by Ossric on Nov 18, 2003 6:53:31 GMT -5
EXPANSION DRAFT RULES
The NBA will hold Charlotte's expansion draft this time next year - in the days between the end of the playoffs and the rookie draft. Here's a summary of the rules:
POOL OF PLAYERS: Each of the 29 existing NBA teams can protect eight veterans from the expansion draft. Any player not protected, who is under contract to an NBA team, is available to the Bobcats.
The Bobcats may not draft a player who isn't under contract to the NBA, even if an NBA team holds his draft rights.
NO. OF SELECTIONS: The Bobcats must draft a minimum of 14 players off other rosters. Since no existing team can lose more than one player, the maximum the Bobcats can draft is 29.
FREE AGENTS: Teams don't have to protect their unrestricted free agents. The rule is slightly different for restricted free agents, (for which a team can match any other team's contract offer).
If a restricted free agent is left unprotected, the Bobcats can draft him. However, that player would then become an unrestricted free agent - with no obligation to play for the Bobcats.
The team that lost him would be barred from re-signing him in the summer of 2004. Restricted free agents would count against the minimum 14 selections Charlotte will make in the expansion draft.
They can recieve draft picks and up to $3M in cash as incentive to pick (or not pick) a player in the expansion draft.
2. They can pick a player and if they waive him before the season, they are free from the cap hit that would normally happen! Here's the rule:
The Salary of any player selected by an Expansion Team in an expansion draft and terminated in accordance with the NBA waiver procedure before the first day of the Expansion Team's first Season shall not be included in the Expansion Team's Team Salary, except, to the extent such Salary is paid, for purposes of determining whether the Expansion Team has satisfied its Minimum Team Salary obligation for such Season. (Article VII, Section 4)
What will Ainge do? (baring serious injuries)
protect: Pierce, Perkins, Banks, Hunter, Brown, Blount, Welsch, Jones?
FA: Mills, Williams, James
unprotected: McCarty
What about Baker, LaFrentz? Maybe Baker & LaFrentz have unattractive big salaries and don't need protecting. What about Battie? If he's still around next summer, should he be protected or would Ainge leave him unprotected, with the change of loosing his salary but without getting anything in return?
The NBA will hold Charlotte's expansion draft this time next year - in the days between the end of the playoffs and the rookie draft. Here's a summary of the rules:
POOL OF PLAYERS: Each of the 29 existing NBA teams can protect eight veterans from the expansion draft. Any player not protected, who is under contract to an NBA team, is available to the Bobcats.
The Bobcats may not draft a player who isn't under contract to the NBA, even if an NBA team holds his draft rights.
NO. OF SELECTIONS: The Bobcats must draft a minimum of 14 players off other rosters. Since no existing team can lose more than one player, the maximum the Bobcats can draft is 29.
FREE AGENTS: Teams don't have to protect their unrestricted free agents. The rule is slightly different for restricted free agents, (for which a team can match any other team's contract offer).
If a restricted free agent is left unprotected, the Bobcats can draft him. However, that player would then become an unrestricted free agent - with no obligation to play for the Bobcats.
The team that lost him would be barred from re-signing him in the summer of 2004. Restricted free agents would count against the minimum 14 selections Charlotte will make in the expansion draft.
They can recieve draft picks and up to $3M in cash as incentive to pick (or not pick) a player in the expansion draft.
2. They can pick a player and if they waive him before the season, they are free from the cap hit that would normally happen! Here's the rule:
The Salary of any player selected by an Expansion Team in an expansion draft and terminated in accordance with the NBA waiver procedure before the first day of the Expansion Team's first Season shall not be included in the Expansion Team's Team Salary, except, to the extent such Salary is paid, for purposes of determining whether the Expansion Team has satisfied its Minimum Team Salary obligation for such Season. (Article VII, Section 4)
What will Ainge do? (baring serious injuries)
protect: Pierce, Perkins, Banks, Hunter, Brown, Blount, Welsch, Jones?
FA: Mills, Williams, James
unprotected: McCarty
What about Baker, LaFrentz? Maybe Baker & LaFrentz have unattractive big salaries and don't need protecting. What about Battie? If he's still around next summer, should he be protected or would Ainge leave him unprotected, with the change of loosing his salary but without getting anything in return?
