NBA Expansion Draft Protections | Morning Shoot Around
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Andrew Schlecht, Dave DuFour, Zena Keita and Es Baraheni do the full NBA expansion draft protections for all 30 teams in the NBA.
Host: Andrew Schlecht
With: Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni and Zena Keita
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the morning shoot-around here on the Athletic NBA Daily's YouTube stream. |
| 0:15.0 | We're live every Wednesday. We'd love for you to join us here on YouTube with me today. |
| 0:21.9 | Dave DeFourgisina Kda Esperi. |
| 0:23.6 | Today we're going to do an expansion draft. |
| 0:26.9 | More importantly, we're going to go through the protections for these teams, which will be top |
| 0:33.5 | eight protected for every NBA team. |
| 0:37.2 | And we'll try to try to do consensus. |
| 0:39.6 | I don't know if you guys ever went to leadership camp. |
| 0:41.3 | And they were like, we have to talk about consensus, everybody. |
| 0:45.2 | I did go to leadership camp. |
| 0:47.6 | And at leadership camp. |
| 0:48.0 | I taught a leadership camp. |
| 0:49.8 | I also taught a leadership camp. |
| 0:51.3 | Did you guys do a lot of consensus? |
| 1:12.6 | No. Not really. I never. Oh, man. Most annoying time of my life. Okay. Can I ask a question? What is leadership camp? I just played sports. It's empowering the leaders of tomorrow day. You guys ever lead anything or how'd that, how'd that work out? Hey, we're, I didn't know this i didn't know that's mean wait is this no i'm i'm at the camp were they like were you leading |
| 1:18.0 | oh yeah was it just yeah you you uh well you come in first to someone who is a leader of tomorrow right |
| 1:25.0 | okay and then and then afterwards next year or whatever you come in and you're the leader that's leading the leaders of tomorrow. |
| 1:32.5 | And that's, at least that's how it works here in the camp that I went. |
| 1:35.8 | But was it like outdoor? |
| 1:37.5 | Like, I mean, yes, it was outdoors. |
| 1:39.1 | Oh, mine was at a sports camp. |
| 1:40.5 | And it was a, it was like a fragment of the sports camp where we were helping uh youth a way to start |
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