IF there was an expansion draft who do you protect?

[Park Bites]

For fun, let's say that the NBA expands to 32 teams. Every team can only protect 8 players who do you protect?

Mike Conley
Rudy Gobert
Bojan Bogdanovic
Joe Ingles
Ed Davis
Donovan Mitchell
Tony Bradley
Georges Niang
Royce O'Neale
Nigel Williams-Goss
Miye Oni
Juwan Morgan
Rayjon Tucker

Those are the players under contract for the next year. You can not protect free agents as they are free agents.

I think right of the bat I can see 6 players that need to be protected

Rudy Gobert
Bojan Bogdanovic
Joe Ingles
Donovan Mitchell
Tony Bradley
Royce O'Neale

That leaves 2 more players that can be protected

I think the next step is to put the players you would not protect

Ed Davis
Nigel Williams-Goss

that leaves 5 players and only 2 spots

Mike Conley - Jazz gave up a lot to get him. Will probably opt-in. Chances are an expansion team that would pass at his price tag but it would be a gamble.

Georges Niang - seem like he bleeds jazz blue. Is a good shooter and a great locker room and fan guy.

Miye Oni - originally had him in the unprotected spot and I don't see why you would protect

Juwan Morgan - has some talent and would be a target for other teams

Rayjon Tucker - jazz gave him 3 years. they seems to see something in him I think he would get protected

My 2 last spots would go to Niang and Tucker.

 

[infection]

You protect Jarron Collins. You always protect Jarron Collins.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Jazz would protect Gobert, Mitchell, Bogdanovic, Clarkson (assuming he's re-signed), Ingles, Conley, Royce, and either Niang or their favorite young prospect (e.g., Bradley, Brantley, Tucker, Morgan), as these players are all positive assets. Note that Conley is an asset due to his large, expiring contract.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Jazz would protect Gobert, Mitchell, Bogdanovic, Clarkson (assuming he's re-signed), Ingles, Conley, Royce, and either Niang or their favorite young prospect (e.g., Bradley, Brantley, Tucker, Morgan), as these players are all positive assets. Note that Conley is an asset due to his large, expiring contract.

We don’t need to protect Clarkson or Niang. Read about it in BR but forgot the reason. They are safe automatically for some reason.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

We don’t need to protect Clarkson or Niang. Read about it in BR but forgot the reason. They are safe automatically for some reason.

Correction, Clarkson and Mudiay are ineligible. Don’t ask me why. So the jazz don’t need to protect them.

 

[infection]

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Correction, Clarkson and Mudiay are ineligible. Don’t ask me why. So the jazz don’t need to protect them.

probably because they are expiring contracts, though the Jazz have bird rights on Clarkson

 

[Miggs]

I could see us not protecting Mike. It would save us money, which is something I think we, like other small markets, look to do next year and the year after, and we'd spin it as "We talked to Mike. We felt it was in the interests of his family. It was a mutual decision..." Or something.

 

[Park Bites]

Jazz would protect Gobert, Mitchell, Bogdanovic, Clarkson (assuming he's re-signed), Ingles, Conley, Royce, and either Niang or their favorite young prospect (e.g., Bradley, Brantley, Tucker, Morgan), as these players are all positive assets. Note that Conley is an asset due to his large, expiring contract.

Clarkson is a free agent you cant protect him

 

[Park Bites]

Correction, Clarkson and Mudiay are ineligible. Don’t ask me why. So the jazz don’t need to protect them.

because they are free agents

 

[Park Bites]

just because a player is not protected doesn't mean that they will be picked up in the expansion draft.

If I was a new GM of an expansion team I am looking for players that will be young enough to build around and players that will put butts in seats.

 

[infection]

just because a player is not protected doesn't mean that they will be picked up in the expansion draft.

If I was a new GM of an expansion team I am looking for players that will be young enough to build around and players that will put butts in seats.

And any GM with half a brain, or at least who’s using it, realizes “they’re not looking for Jarron Collins.”

Not that I’m bitter, or anything.

 

[infection]

I’d protect:

Rudy Gobert
Bojan Bogdanovic
Joe Ingles
Donovan Mitchell
Royce O'Neale

I’d roll the dice on Conley. If they don’t take him, great. If they do, time to go shopping. That allows you a big offer on Christian Wood. You could make an argument on protecting all our end of the bench young guys, because you could use them as pieces to trade with the expansion teams for players they picked up in the expansion draft that you may be interested in.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

And any GM with half a brain, or at least who’s using it, realizes “they’re not looking for Jarron Collins.”

Not that I’m bitter, or anything.

This memory still gives me heartburn.

 

[Miggs]

I’d protect:

Rudy Gobert
Bojan Bogdanovic
Joe Ingles
Donovan Mitchell
Royce O'Neale

I’d roll the dice on Conley. If they don’t take him, great. If they do, time to go shopping. That allows you a big offer on Christian Wood. You could make an argument on protecting all our end of the bench young guys, because you could use them as pieces to trade with the expansion teams for players they picked up in the expansion draft that you may be interested in.

With what the pandemic may do to smaller market teams, we need to have cheaper guys on our roster. Bradley was solid last year so he, Brantley and Morgan should probably be on that list too. Maybe Niang and I’d lean no for Oni but maybe.

If we kept those 10 and our 1st, would we hypothetically have enough money to sign Wood at about 11M per, Marc Gasol at the same, and re-up Clarkson at about 14M per? I think the answer to this is no but I’m not certain.