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Originally posted by: Speedy
This is from a Detroit paper. Link

Building Bobcats


Bernie Bickerstaff is the general manager and coach of the expansion Charlotte Bobcats, and a lot of team executives around the league would like to know what he’s thinking.

He isn’t about to get specific, but he does have general ideas about how he will approach the expansion draft.

“Our first pick is very valuable to us and to our franchise,” he said. “It would have to be something monumental for us to consider (trading it).”

He made it clear that he would not be interested in taking players with expensive, long-term contracts.

“The veterans that we want now are guys with one or two years left (on their contracts) and who are good in the locker room and can help our young kids,” Bickerstaff said. “Our kids are going to be the show.”

So, you can rule out Mavericks players Antawn Jamison and Antoine Walker, though one of those two might be left unprotected, with Jamison heavily, and wrongfully, rumored to be on Bickerstaff’s short list.

One player who seems to fill his bill, and most likely will be left unprotected, is the Pistons’ Elden Campbell, who played in Charlotte and will be in the final year of his contract.

of course, I wonder how true this part of the statement is....