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Cheap Expansion Draft
Looking through most of the rosters people are putting together, they seem to generally wind up in the $20-25 million dollar range. This is consistent with what Charlotte has been rumored to do, so no problems there. However, when I was coming up with my own little roster, I got through about a dozen guys and I realized they can gather up a fair amount of young talent all the while barely going over the $10 million range.
PG: Troy Bell (MEM, $1.4), Anthony Johnson (IND, $0.9)
SG: Alexsandar Pavlovovic (UTA, $1.1), Tamar Slay (NJN, $0.7)
SF: Gerald Wallace (SAC, $1.4), Qyntel Woods (POR, $1.1)
PF: Brian Skinner (MIL, $1.7), Brandon Hunter (BOS, $0.6)
C: Zaza Pachulia (ORL, $0.6), Jamal Sampson (LAL, $0.7)
X: 4 RFAs
Okay, so you don't exactly have a playoff contender there. However, you do have two guys at each position, including at least one young gun with some talent at each spot. Also, after adding in the salary of Howard as the second pick (trade 4th pick for 2nd pick + Peja Drobnjak, who can be cut to save $2.5 million off cap) at $3.5 million, and you're looking at a total payroll of only about $13.7 million. You're only halfway to your cap, allowing you to do some work in the FA and trade markets. I don't know exactly what you could nab with that money, but I'm sure you could make at least one or two pretty decent pickups.
I don't really think Charlotte will take this route, but it's still an interesting possibility in my opinion.
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