The NHL’s Las Vegas Golden Knights made the Stanley Cup Finals in their first season of existence earlier this summer. Amazingly, many of their players were acquired from other teams in an expansion draft last year. With fans in Seattle clamoring for a new NBA franchise, it’s not hard to imagine the NBA running its own expansion draft in the near future.
With that in mind, let’s consider how the Portland Trail Blazers would handle an imaginary expansion draft this summer. Which players on the current roster would they choose to protect?