I was just reading a 2003 post from a brand new Charlotte Bobcats forum. They thought for sure Pavlovic was going to be protected.
Yeah, and though he didn’t end up being amazing, it was cataclysmically stupid as he had shown a pretty large amount of promise and there was no way Charlotte was going to try to swipe Collins. It was one of a huge string of dumbass KOC decisions that he got so many passes on because he was able to hide behind Jerry and the Jazz franchise’s large amount of success.I was just reading a 2003 post from a brand new Charlotte Bobcats forum. They thought for sure Pavlovic was going to be protected.
Moneyball. Save the money, give up the ball, continuity, butts in the seats...profit??And DL getting **** for the Charlotte/Hayward contract was a KOC special. That was DL’s first off-season with the reins and he learned that from the master. Every single restricted free agent got the same treatment — don’t be proactive, just let them go sign with another team, let them set the market, then match (or don’t if you’ve shot yourself on the foot). See also Paul Millsap and Wes Matthews.
Prior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of future draft picks between the teams, along with a particular agreement in the expansion draft.
The Charlotte Bobcats acquired the second pick in the 2004 Draft and agreed to select Predrag Drobnjak in the expansion draft from the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for the fourth and 33rd picks in the 2004 Draft.
The Charlotte Bobcats agreed to select Jahidi White from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for a future first-round pick and cash considerations.
I guess my memory did not serve well…We traded Dell for Mel Turpin and Daryl Dawkins and Mo Williams signed with Milwaukee.
Yeah, but I bet they would have gotten an unprotected first if they would have traded Collins to Cleveland.The Bobcats also traded Pavlovic to Cleveland for a lottery protected 1st after the draft as well.