RE: [Celtics' Stuff ] who to protect for the expansion draft?

["Sean Giovanello" <sgiovanello@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think they make Raef available and only do so because they would be
very certain he would not be selected.  Given the Bobcats limited
spending ability in year 1, they would be hardpressed to spend that much
money on a guy.  Given that Raef is injured currently and his contract
is long enough and high enough in terms of dollars would make him pretty
unappealing to them at this point in time.  

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Subject: Re: [Celtics' Stuff ] who to protect for the expansion draft?

I didn't know this. This makes it more likely that LaFrenz gets put on
the 
available list. Still, if you were going to sign a free agent, wouldn't
Raef be 
the best guy for the Cs that you would sign? He would likely command the
same 
salary that we are already paying him, or maybe a little less. Maybe
less a 
year or so of total years. But that is the problem. So I guess I am
still 
thinking that Danny makes Chucky available. I am probably wrong but it
is just my 
opinion....

DJessen33

<< That's the bad news. The good news is the Bobcats are only allowed to

select 
 one 
 player from each NBA team. If a team has one of its players selected,
the 
 team 
 receives a trade exception equal to the player's 2004-05 salary. This
allows 
 teams to replace a player lost in the expansion draft with another
player of 
 comparable salary.  >>