Let's say we're getting an expansion draft. Seattle and St Louis are getting teams, and all 30 teams are allowed to protect up to 8 players on their current rosters from being drafted by these two teams. Which players are protected? Blazers are deep. Do we protect: Dame Ant C.J. Gary Trent Jr. DJjr Nassir Robert Covington Nurk And leave these unprotected? CJ Elleby Rodney Hood Carmelo Anthony (nooo) Jaylen Hoard Zach Collins (nooo) Enes Kanter Harry Giles (nooo) Moses Brown I'm running a small poll on Twitter to find out which players would be available in such a draft, if you'd like you could vote here: (similar polls are available for all other teams).
There couldn't be an expansion team play this season, so we'd only protect players on contact after this season. Although likely there would need to be multiple seasons of lead time to plan this. Then the Blazers would consider the impact of losing players in expansion draft for the prior offseasons construction of their roster. Or maybe the NBA sets it up so the franchise uses their G league team to sign and draft players one year prior so no expansion draft is needed. For the sake of the argument, if we needed to protect players this current season I would protect; Dame Nurk CJ Covington Trent DJJ Collins Ant in that order. Only change from OP is Collins in place of Nassir. If it includes players under contract or RFA for next season, the only possible change from my list is put Nassir in place of DJJ if DJJ opted out.
Moses Brown and Jaylen Hoard are not on the Blazers. Blevins is on a two way, obviously he wouldn't be protected.
I don't disagree, I just don't see a strong reason to protect anyone after the top 6 so take your pick on two of Nassir, Collins, Simons. All of them flash upside but none of them have demonstrated they are a rotational player. Collins has the worst contract (due a raise soon) but Nassir has probably shown the least so I went with Collins.
ok...sure I guess you could protect the guys with the most years left on their rookie deal and that would be Little and Simons. My thinking is that no team would waste an expansion draft pick on Simons at this point. They might on Collins or Little
There is this city in the U.S. just 170 miles north of here that had there team straight up stolen from them that I think deserves a team before any other city... Canada or otherwise.
I totally agree with them. It is doubtful an expansion team would take him with his contract and age.
Kings got stolen from Kansas. Then moved to Sacramento. Why not the outrage for that. San Diego had their team stolen. The list goes on. Why is Seattle so special
Who would I protect? 1. Dame 2. CJ 3. Nurk 4. Covington 5. Collins 6. Trent Jr 7. Simons 8. Hood Jones = oh so close with Hood....but Hood is more likely to opt in and stay with team Melo = too old Kanter = contract too short Little = close but chose Jones over him as Hood is in our rotation Elleby = very replaceable Giles = contract too short
Still of the same opinion? Vancouver had one and lost it already. Glad he did. Im curious how people feel about Simons compared to back then.
