With all the brouhaha surrounding the NHL Expansion Draft that is taking place today for the Las Vegas Golden Knights, and more specifically the outrage of the Red Wings selections, I decided to step into Jeff Bower and Stan Van Gundy’s collective shoes and determine who I would keep on the Detroit Pistons in the event an NBA expansion draft were to take place today.
In this expansion draft scenario, the Pistons are able to protect eight players and unrestricted free agents are not eligible to be protected or selected by expansion teams. Here is my list, in order, of the players I would protect as general manager of the Pistons:
Andre Drummond
The first player that would be absolutely be protected is Andre Drummond.