By not fearing injury this offseason, Peyton Watson believes he helped himself avoid one.
Extreme caution would have been justified. Not only is he on the clock to sign a contract extension with the Nuggets by Monday, but around this time last year, he was nursing a strained hamstring, unable to play in any of Denver’s preseason games. The injury occurred while he was playing pickup a few days before training camp. The memory remains fresh in his mind.
The lesson taken from it was not to scrimmage less, though. Just the opposite.