His representation needs to be fired, dude tanked his own value so fast.

Ngl even as a warriors fan I thought the organization was treating the kid like shit but after all this it’s easy to think I was completely wrong.

“Kumingas team”?????? LMAOOOOOOO

call it what it is. Social media gassed him up cuz they wanted to mock Steve Kerr and shit on the warriors. Everyone on this sub and insta and twitter acted like he was some hidden gem being leashed and doghoused by Steve kerrs massive ego. These takes were based 40% on the points column on his box scores, 60% on random poster dunk highlights, and 0% on time spent watching him play nba basketball. It’d go to anybody’s head if they were told day and night that they’re soooo good and everybody’s just holding them back out of jealousy

The next response to this is going to be pretending that only warriors fans were hating on Kerr for this, and all other fans knew secretly how ass he was 🙄 the exact same thing happened with Klay and poole too. But atleast those guys were decent contributors!

There’s a spot in Denver now

That’s why teams are trading for Watson instead of chasing Kuminga, lol.

The problem for Denver is that they’re literally the only team in the league that’s in the second apron. That’s how fucked their cap situation is.

Not only can Denver not afford to pay Watson, but they can’t even trade for a half-decent player because the CBA won’t let them take on incoming salary or package players. They needed to pull a Boston and Red Wedding Murray and/or Braun for some breathing room.

Now they’re just Milwaukee and Giannis the sequel, except Jokic isn’t having his agent flirt with other teams (yet).

How dare you think of things with greater context

But I don’t think Kuminga is planning to take the minimum lol

I am sure someone’s already offered him probably more than the minimum but well below his personal opinion of his value. Supposedly the Lakers were interested in 10-15M AAV and he said heck no

So yes I’d rather have Watson at 22M than Kuminga at well over 15M

I will be interested to see if Kuminga is willing to sit out I guess. But if he’s willing to play for meaningfully <10M he’ll be on a team pretty soon.

Bro would rather have Jake LaRavia start

Both statements are true. It looked to be a good bench, brown sucked , jonas was ok, thj was great. 

And they lost their best bench players so now its not good. Thats how things work.

both things can be true

last year was their best bench since the chip (still ass)

this year is way worse

Yea and then every player aside from Murray was chronically injured, the nuggets didn’t have a single game at full or even close to full strength last season.

And then a buncha players left

It was great until we lost all the depth from injuries lol

Good thing we’re discussing next season now

Westbrook is 38 years old and shoots terrible percentages, you guys have to stop this lol

They didn’t really dump the money though, they turned it into Johnson and Val. They saved like 12 mil this year total.

The Nuggets only have 2 choices really, run it back and hope Murray plays way better and Gordon is health or trade Murray/Gordon and do a 1-3 year retool

Good comparison. Both teams paid other guys too much money, and traded draft capital.

Don’t worry, we’re right behind you guys. Seems to be the way of the NBA after the 2nd apron happened. Contenders/champions fall faster than ever now.

Joker traded to Miami in 1-2 years?

2022 Bucks took the Celtics to 7 with no Middleton. It was all downhill from there.

No way. That was a layup line first round

If a team can’t pay their second star without ruining their flexibility there’s something wrong with the structure of contracts

Well they’re over the second apron still so their trade options are limited. Can’t aggregate salaries, can’t take on more $ than they send, etc.

I guess it gives them another asset they can attach to Braun’s salary? So they could do Braun, this 2031 pick, and a couple swaps? Not sure what that would get them

Watson has the same exact injury and missed more time because of it lol

Braun has been a lot better than Peyton so far in their careers. Peyton is way younger though and might have more upside.

I think it’s a perfect acceptable return.

Watson was a decent player and the nuggets need to desperately try and win in the back half of Jokic’s prime so they better use the assets they got well

They clearly couldn’t afford him. An unprotected first and second is a good return when the whole league knew that the Nuggets were financially cornered 

That pick can easily be packaged later in the season, Denver did fine. I feel like Watson is becoming a little overrated in this sub.

Peyton Watson has been good for about half a year, it’s fair to believe that he might’ve over performed and isn’t worth the money he’s asking for

He isnt a top ten player of all time.

Top 10?

theyre in the second apron arent they? what can they realistcally even do?

The owners want to rebuild when you have a generational player right in front of you lol. It’s like they think they can do better than with Jokic, I genuinely feel for you guys

He always looked like he was giving more effort than everyone else to me, loved his hustle

Problem is that strus is routinely playing sf for us at 6’5”

With more years

Idk man that’s not my job 😭

In reality, I hope they flip these picks for another player. Jokic will be 36 in 2031, I don’t care what that pick looks like right now.