Ask Peyton Watson about his preseason hamstring strain and he’ll wince just thinking about it.
“Them soft tissue injuries, it hurts to do anything,” the 22-year-old wing said. “It hurts to bend over in a defensive stance. It hurts to get out of bed. It hurts to brush your teeth in the morning.”
Watson went about five weeks without practicing and missed the entire preseason after he suffered his strain a few days before Nuggets training camp last September. Now he’s potentially next in line to replace an irreplaceable starter who’s dealing with the same injury, at the worst possible time.