{"id":594670,"date":"2026-02-10T14:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/594670\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T14:19:15","slug":"what-celtics-players-would-you-protect-in-an-expansion-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/594670\/","title":{"rendered":"What Celtics players would you protect in an expansion draft?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The latest NBA rumor making the rounds recently has been related to expansion. The league has been flirting with expansion for a number of years, but there may finally be a vote for it this summer according to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Please keep in mind, these things take time to work out. We\u2019re talking a couple of years at least before it becomes a thing. With that said, I thought it would be a fun thought exercise to go through the roster and see which players the team would protect. (Come to think of it, the team kind of did essentially that with the trade deadline, but I digress)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before we start, I want to point everyone to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/news\/_\/id\/2086\/nba-expansion-series-expansion-draft-rules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">work that Keith Smith did<\/a> a couple of years ago when this was originally ramping up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So with those rules out of the way, and understanding that this is just a \u201cwhat if\u201d exercise, how would you set up the protections on the Celtics if it was somehow happening this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest NBA rumor making the rounds recently has been related to expansion. The league has been flirting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,65415,3798,46,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-594670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-boston-celtics-discussion","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116046775943969246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}