The Steep Price Of Keeping Peyton Watson
Locked On Nuggets - Daily Podcast On The Denver Nuggets
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Peyton Watson's show with a dynamic player he could be this season, but to keep him, |
| 0:05.7 | the Nuggets are going to have to face some really tough decisions. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm going to ask Swipe up. |
| 0:09.6 | How far do you want to go to keep Peyton Watson as a Denver Nugget? |
| 0:13.6 | Coming up on Locked on Nuggets. |
| 0:27.3 | You are Locked on Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to Locked on Nuggets, your daily Denver Nuggets podcast, part of the Locked On |
| 0:35.7 | podcast network, your team every day. I'm Matt Moore, joined by Swipea on today's show. We're going to talk later on about there's a press conference schedule for Friday with Josh Cronkey, Ben Tenzer, and John Wallace, David Adelman will speak after that. We'll talk about what kind of we're expecting from that press conference, the important questions that need to be asked tomorrow if there's enough time to get them in but the majority of today's show is to be about |
| 0:58.7 | Peyton Watson uh Swipea has always been a Peyton Watson proponent he has always believed in that |
| 1:03.8 | kid's potential and he that obviously showed a ton this season he showed a lot more chops |
| 1:09.3 | in playmaking and creating and on ball. He showed the |
| 1:12.0 | ability to be an elite spot-up shooter. He showed how he could contribute to a team in a major |
| 1:17.0 | way and he's going to be a restricted free agent this summer. With the nuggets now facing a salary |
| 1:22.1 | crunch, having to restructure the roster depending on what they want to do and how far they want to |
| 1:26.5 | go, we'll find out more about that tomorrow as well as the looming and terrifying prospect of them |
| 1:32.7 | trying to duck the luxury tax in order to break the repeater. |
| 1:36.4 | There are big, big questions that we have to kind of get into. |
| 1:40.9 | And I think I just did, Yossi Gozlan has a substack and he has his own podcast. |
| 1:46.1 | I just did a mock off season with him. |
| 1:48.3 | And I traded out Jamal, Aaron Gordon, and Cam, all of them to get back pieces that would work while saving $20 million in salary. |
| 2:03.9 | And they still wound up in the first apron. |
| 2:05.4 | Who would have? That's got back. |
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