Nuggets refused to increase Peyton Watson contract offer
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Denver's priority a few months earlier, Peyton Watson finally joined Cleveland in a sign-and-trade. Between financial constraints and tensions around his injury, confidence between the two sides had gradually eroded.
Nuggets refused to increase Peyton Watson contract offer
The Denver Nuggets made only one contract offer to Peyton Watson during his restricted free agency, according to Bennett Durando of The Denver Post, before ultimately trading the young forward to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Durando reported that Denver offered Watson a four-year contract with an ascending salary in the range of $18 million per year […]
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More Details On Peyton Watson's Departure From Nuggets
The first sign that Peyton Watson might eventually part ways with the Nuggets came last October, when the team prioritized signing Christian Braun to a five-year, $125MM rookie scale extension and bypassed a rookie scale deal with Watson, as Bennett Durando of The Denver Post details. Braun was the far more proven player through three seasons and superstar center Nikola Jokic signed off on the decision to extend him, Durando writes. ESPN’s Tim M…
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