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This is pretty simple, and hopefully it will be a fun discussion during the lockout. If there were to be an expansion draft, what 8 players from your roster would you protect?

The rules:
1. Unrestricted free agents are not available to an expansion team to draft.
2. Unsigned draft picks are not available for the expansion team to draft.
3. Restricted free agents are available.
4. Each team must have at least one player unprotected, so if team x had 8 players under contract and 4 that were UFAs, it could only protect 7 players.
5. The expansion team can only draft one player from each roster and must have at least 14 players.

Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Lamar Odom, Matt Barnes, Devin Ebanks, Ron Artest, Derek Fisher.

I think a retraction scenario would be cool as well, not sure how if would work though

TyCobb wrote:Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Lamar Odom, Matt Barnes, Devin Ebanks, Ron Artest, Derek Fisher.

lol at protect derek fisher or ron artest...

if they take them (and their contracts) off our hands, we would be forever grateful.

we wouldn't be throwing 1st rounders at them to take them either.

Artest's 7-mil per is toxic, especially after he'd been air balling 3s and missing point blank lay ups for a good part of last season.

Kobe,Pau,Andrew,Lamar,Matt,Derek,Devin,Darius

Kobe
Gasol
Bynum
Ebanks
Barnes
Odom
The rest can kick rocks