The latest NBA rumor making the rounds recently has been related to expansion. The league has been flirting with expansion for a number of years, but there may finally be a vote for it this summer according to this report.
Please keep in mind, these things take time to work out. We’re talking a couple of years at least before it becomes a thing. With that said, I thought it would be a fun thought exercise to go through the roster and see which players the team would protect. (Come to think of it, the team kind of did essentially that with the trade deadline, but I digress)
Before we start, I want to point everyone to the work that Keith Smith did a couple of years ago when this was originally ramping up.
So with those rules out of the way, and understanding that this is just a “what if” exercise, how would you set up the protections on the Celtics if it was somehow happening this summer?
