Chucky Atkins was stunned and upset by the Boston Celtics? decision to leave him unprotected in the expansion draft.  

"If they aren't going to protect me," Atkins said, "then I don't want to be there. Why would I want to be somewhere where they didn't want me? If you're going to leave me unprotected, that's a slap in the face to me. I could have stayed in Detroit."

Atkins was even more upset because no one called to tell him that he was going to be exposed in the draft.

"Of all the guys on our team last year, who contributed? Do you think I was one of the top eight guys who contributed? I'm very upset about this. I thought that [with] the way they let me play, that was where I wanted to be and that's where I would be," Atkins said.