Feels like Peyton Watson is Paul George the way we’ve been getting news on him lol. All this for him to probably average 16 next year

If you do a reddit search for Watson in this sub and sort by new, you’ll notice a pattern where all of these updates are posted by the same person. Most of them are clips of videos or articles that are not even primarily about Watson, some of them behind paywalls, so it’s mostly this one user who’s super interested in the story and posting everything they can see.

Restricted free agency is the aftertaste of the FA frenzy

Nuggets would get hit with a tax penalty of \(177 million dollars if they signed him a \)25 million/year contract, Unless they move some contracts.

They really gave Braun a 100+ million dollar contract because hes good at fast break layups

25-30 million is awful for a player that had a good one month stretch and hasn’t played in the postseason since.

They would have to pay up a good amount to offload that contract.

But dumping Cam Johnson would not be difficult at all.

look first serious injury this season. i think most actual nuggets fans have high expectations for him to return to that MIP level player he showed 2 years ago more or less. if hes cooked then yea jokic era cooked

I love Peyton Watson, but anything north of \(25M for him is an overpay, even if we were under the luxury tax. He's never demonstrated that he's an above average starter or 6 man for the duration of a season and he's unproven in the playoffs. I think he has a lot of potential, but it would be an incredible risk to pay him like he's the 3-4th best player on a championship team when he's never actually demonstrated that. It would be even riskier than paying CB \)125/5yr after his breakout year as a starter.

This sub has the memory of a goldfish

it’s not that bad if he has a bounce back season

And a cheap owner

Braun’s contract isn’t bad, he just got injured last year and never fully recovered.

I don’t get it either. That’s how much Jaden McDaniels makes.

I agree. I loved how he looked for that one Watsanity month, but it was literally one month out of his entire career so far where it looked like he could be a star. He’s completely unproven. Rui Hachimura just accepted \(14M a year, and he's a multi year starter and proven playoff performer. If LA or Brooklyn don't make a big offer, I think Denver should offer \)50M/3 years. Having another untradeable contract on our books will cripple us.

He’s a backup forward with upside. Starting forward Rui Hachimura got \(14 million a year. You're really betting on upside at \)25 million.

He’s a forward who isn’t a liability on defense and can score and shoot the 3 and he is young and no major injury history.

He deserve to get paid more than Christian Braun

I’m sure the Clippers will pay most of it to him under the table, as is tradition.

Watson is potentially a future all-nba player.

What do you think Watson is as a player?

I’ll tell you, what you are missing after

Not a choice Denver can make though now lol

Braun has actually played in the playoffs and won a ring guarding Jimmy Butler. He finished #3rd in the league for MIP the year he sign and had the highest true shooting percentage of shooting guards in History . (Edited
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Braun tore a ligament in his ankle and was basically playing on 1 left the whole season.!

The risk is if he isn’t actually the emerging offensive player he showed at times last season. What if that was just higher-usage, small-sample-size noise?

Seems like the Clips, Nets, etc. would be good situations to take that kind of a shot, so I get it, but if he isn’t that guy offensively, it could be a pretty ugly contract to have on hand.

I agree I’d rather pay him that money than Braun but you’re giving that big of a contract largely because you think he can improve by quite a bit. If he can and grows into Aaron Gordon 2.0 it’s a steal. If not it’s an overpay which can cripple a team in this CBA era especially with Braun also underperforming his contract significantly

As I understand it, paying Watson \(25 million this year would actually cost the Nuggets \)100 million+

The current Nuggets front office would too, but far too late for that. Nuggets will be flirting with the second apron even if they let Watson walk and fill out the roster with minimum contracts. They couldn’t offload bad contracts this offseason because they blew all of their picks offloading other bad contracts the last few years.

Easier said than done, especially for a team like Denver that’s never exactly been a free agent destination. Sometimes you have to overpay to retain someone because they can’t be replaced very easily

This is the real effect of the CBA – it forces FO to hand out contracts with discipline, as there are real penalties for players to get overpaid at every level.

Watson is a Klutch client so Nuggets need to at least show Klutch and Lebron that they are willing to be second apron team and obviously sign one of their clients for lebron

RFAs can go way deeper into the summer. For all we know this could be the beginning of

No lol, most other business is done so for the foreseeable future its Watson, Kuminga, and Lebron updates on rotation

LAC’s order of operations here kind of fucked their ability to offer him a $25M contract, and it goes to show why RFA needs to be re-worked if you actually want teams to be able to give offer sheets to players.

I’m guessing he’d be a nugget

He might be worth \(25 million. Maybe it’s more like \)20 million. For LAC it would be \(25 million. For DEN it would be closer to \)200 million with tax.

Ahh the Ballmer special. Genius

Yeah except Denver will match 20 million no problem.

it’s too bad they can’t exploit a LEGAL salary cap loophole instead to enable unquestionably the weakest move in NBA history and sign someone like a prime KD and get a couple mickey mouse rings. i guess they’ll have to find another hardest road

Doesn’t that make their situation worse

Why are they giving up a first in that deal

Trade so bad that the Nuggets wouldn’t even be a play-in caliber team.

I was so bewildered until I saw the flair

Clearly unbiased thought process I’m sure 

Leave the 1st out of it. I also don’t think we can take that contract on.

yup let’s free the guy that has reiterated like 10 times that he wants to retire in denver

Doesn’t sound like he actually cares all that much about contending every year in the NBA, as far as I’m aware he’s made it clear that if he’s the issue he’ll remove himself but that he’d prefer to retire as a nugget.