{"id":692404,"date":"2026-04-01T18:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692404\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:47:18","slug":"draymond-green-gives-major-shout-out-to-nuggets-peyton-watson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692404\/","title":{"rendered":"Draymond Green Gives Major Shout Out to Nuggets’ Peyton Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

While his career-best campaign was put on pause for a brief moment in the second half of the regular season with a hamstring injury, Peyton Watson<\/a> has still turned out to be one of the Denver Nuggets<\/a>‘ biggest bright spots of their last five months.<\/p>\n

In the 58 games he’s played so far this season, Watson’s averaging career-high numbers across the board with 14.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, and 2.1 assists a night, paired with some efficient shooting splits of 49.0% from the field and 41.9% from three, along with some standout abilities on the defensive end.<\/p>\n

That type of production hasn’t just captured the attention from those in Denver, but also those around the league as well\u2013\u2013 particularly Golden State Warriors’ forward Draymond Green<\/a>, who spoke extremely highly of the Nuggets wing on the latest episode of The Draymond Green Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Peyton Watson has gotten so much better,” Green said. “Don’t be surprised at the emergence of Peyton Watson… He clearly has a high-level processor. When you have a high-level processor in this league, it’s an advantage. It’s very understated, but a very big advantage.”<\/p>\n

“What we’ve seen now is the tip of the iceberg. He ain’t even scratched the surface yet. Peyton Watson is going to be an elite NBA player.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While his career-best campaign was put on pause for a brief moment in the second half of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3781],"tags":[7,301,187,3943,6,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-692404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-nuggets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-nuggets","11":"tag-denvernuggets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nuggets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116330944781967366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}