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The Bobcats can only select players that are left unprotected by an NBA team.The Bobcats may select no more than one player from each team.The Bobcats will select a minimum of 14 players who are under contract or restricted free agents for the 2004-05 season.The Charlotte Bobcats Expansion Draft will take place on June 22 (if the NBA Finals extend to seven games, it will be June 23), prior to the 2004 NBA Draft on June 24.Let’s take a look a peak at some of the rules that Charlotte management were given in 2004: Hindsight is 20/20 so it’s easy to judge some of these teams on their relatively poor expansion draft performances, Minnesota included. Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images
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*Johnson was the first majority Black owner of a major professional sports team in the US. I tried to dig up if NBA teams had to publicly disclose who they chose to protect, but Google did not have any answers for me. At the time, the Timberwolves were fresh off a Western Conference Finals appearance, yet they didn’t lose a single player to Charlotte in the draft. You can also have some fun looking up and down that list where you will find some Wolves legends like Oliver Miller or Reggie Slater.Ģ004 Draft (Charlotte Bobcats): Robert “Bob” Johnson* and his astutely self-named Charlotte Bobcats have been the last team to join the NBA. Guibert previously played just 22 games in his first two seasons in the league, but never ended up taking to the court again after being acquired by Toronto. Of the 27 players selected, the Wolves had to say goodbye to Cuban big man, Andrés Guibert, to the Toronto Raptors with the fifth pick. With the NBA’s exploration into the Canadian market, the Timberwolves were finally on the giving end of an expansion draft. Cool name.ġ995 Draft (Toronto Raptors & Vancouver Grizzlies): They didn’t call David Stern “Mr. *They traded Mahorn for a future draft pick that ended up being Gerald “World Class” Glass. Now I know why they called him a Bad Boy! In fact, seven of them never even played a single game for the Wolves in the Metrodome, including their top pick and then NBA champion, Rick Mahorn, who rudely refused to report to Minneapolis*.
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With the 11-players Minnesota drafted on June 15, 1989, only two players suited up for that full season. Butler/NBAE via Getty Imagesġ989 Draft (Minnesota Timberwolves & Orlando Magic): The dawn of the Timberwolves was. That’s either impressive or very sad, depending on how you view it. Only two names were recognizable to me and those were Dell Curry and Muggsy Bogues, two of the most recognizable names in Hornets history. If you fast-forward to the “Modern Era” ( Somewhere in the 1980’s), there have been four expansion drafts:ġ988 Draft (Miami Heat & Charlotte Hornets): This was pre-Timberwolves so there’s not too much to breakdown here. There have been a total of 11 expansion drafts dating back to 1961 when the Chicago Packers, now known as the Washington Wizards, were formed. What if there was an expansion draft? Would Minnesota likely lose any players? If so, who would it be? To further explore this question, we should first hop into our time machine and visit some NBA history. What else is there to discuss? It seems the major trade dominoes have all finally fallen. However, as mentioned earlier, we’re in the dog days of the offseason - the final weeks before training camp and preseason kicks off. Rumors Of Looming NBA Expansion To Seattle, Las Vegas Untrue - Hoops Wire - Sam Amico September 7, 2022
