Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

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Sub Peyton Watson for Buzelis and you might be able to pull that lineup off. Send PJ to Chicago or Detroit into their cap space for draft picks. Then send Naji+picks to Denver for a Watson sign and trade. That gives the Nuggets a cheap rotation SF without having to pay an absurd luxury tax bill.

Peyton Watson is a really great target for us but I’d argue it’s because you don’t have to trade any of those guys for him. He’s a great MLE target that you can offer a big long term role next to Cooper or you can use the TPE if you want to offer more than the MLE to weed out other teams offering that. Nugs already have 211M on the books next year, they will either be paying him and going way over the second apron because they’ve decided this roster can still win championships or they simply let him walk off the books as opposed to a S&T that would take money on.