NBA EXPANSION DRAFT | Morning Shoot Around
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What is the expansion draft and why is it significant?
Welcome to the morning shoot around here on the Athletic NBA Daily's YouTube stream. You can hang out with us every Wednesday here in the Pacific time zone. It's still the morning here in the Central or East Coast. You know what? Enjoy your lunch with us. All right. That's right. It's not that hard. I'm still looking for a cold brew sponsorship. I mean, that would be... Just throwing that out there. That'd be amazing to get a cold brew sponsorship. Let us know out there, cold brew people. I won't say a brand, but listen, we'll say one. I will say one. That's right. Yeah. We'll say it. No awkward hop, Mike. Shout out to Lawrencefield. Thank you. Lawrencefield knows what's up. Yeah. So... today we are finally going to do the expansion draft that we have long been awaiting.
So we've waited several weeks. And now, you know what? We were just waiting for the news. That's right. Of the official expansion. Perfect timing. Yeah. So anything that we want to use to set the table first before we get started with drafting the new Seattle Supersonics and the Las Vegas Strips? yeah i actually i want to start with just strategy all right i want to just think about like when this happens because it does feel like it's going to happen they're going to vote next week It feels like 2028 is the target. What would your strategy be if you guys were the GM? Let's say, Andrew, you're in Seattle. Actually, Andrew, you're in Vegas. You do the little road trip from OKC. S, you're in Seattle. It's close enough to the border.
Let's go get your poutine, Tim Hortons, all that. Poutine's overrated. So you think about this. Hey, you're a brand new team, right? Yeah. You have the draft from the pool of players, and you're not getting a star out of this draft, the expansion draft. You do get to draft in the lottery in the first year. Is there an incentive to just come in and tank right away until you get a franchise superstar? Or do you want to come out and say, hey, look, we're trying to make the playoffs year one? One, I don't think it's possible to do the second thing you're talking about, Dave. It'd be very difficult. I think in the NBA, it's really hard. You can make the play-in because most teams don't want to be in the play-in, right?
Let's say you could compete for the 10 seed just based on the expansion draft. I think you have to tank. I think you have to come in. I think that they both have to. You're just tank-brained, man. I think you have to. If you ever want to be good... The talent pool is too shallow. You're not going to get really good players. There's nobody that is going to deliver for you night in, night out. That's in this draft. There's just not. The guys that are the most talented guys are on one of the worst teams in the league. You know? then they leave them unprotected because they're like, please save us from these giant salaries. That's the position that these teams are in. And so, yeah, I don't think that there's a lot there.
I mean, maybe a guy that isn't playing a ton, that's a young guy, just pops. Gerald Wallace was a guy that was on the Sacramento Kings. He was buried on the bench for the Kings. The Bobcats took him in the expansion draft, and he became an all-star. It didn't happen overnight, though. And the Bobcats won a championship in 2000. And then the Bobcats went on to have the best team in the history of the league. No, I mean, it... That was like the success story, though, from that expansion draft. And so that's what we're talking about, where it's like, you know, Sacramento may not know exactly what they have in this guy. And they also just had such a deep team back then, which, sorry, Kings fans. It's like, you know, we're longer.
It's like Keon Ellis, right? I mean, look, maybe OKC ends up dealing with that this time around. You never know.
What strategies are considered for building an expansion team?
Yeah, yes. There could be a Thunder player that gets selected, like if J. Will is selected in this draft, which is possible. Then it's like, I don't know that he's an all-star level player, but could he start for the Las Vegas Strips? Yes. Are we going to see the thunder bump the way that we used to see the Spurs bump?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the expansion draft and why is it significant?
0:07–4:22
2
What strategies are considered for building an expansion team?
4:22–7:25
3
How do players' contracts impact expansion draft decisions?
7:25–11:17
4
What are the challenges of drafting young players in the NBA?
11:17–15:41
5
How does team chemistry affect expansion team success?
15:41–19:33
6
What role does player character play in team selection?
19:33–23:56
7
How do expansion teams navigate salary cap constraints?
23:56–31:29
8
What are the long-term goals for the new expansion teams?
31:29–57:16