{"id":766680,"date":"2026-06-29T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766680\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:01:12","slug":"2026-nba-rumors-live-blog-with-latest-news-trade-buzz-and-grades-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766680\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA Rumors Live Blog with Latest News, Trade Buzz and Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Denver Nuggets have had three straight, earlier-than-expected playoff exits since winning the title in 2026. And that&#8217;s led to all kinds speculation this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Could Jamal Murray or Aaron Gordon be traded? Will they re-sign Peyton Watson (whether outright or by matching an offer sheet from another team)? Does Nikola Joki\u0107 declining to sign an extension mean anything (he can get more money by waiting a year, but not inking a new deal will have the national media cooking up fake trades)?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Ideally, the front office and ownership would just pony up, re-sign Watson (assuming the deal isn&#8217;t crazy), add some inexpensive athleticism and hope for better health next season, but there&#8217;s too much smoke to ignore on potential cost-cutting moves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Athletic&#8217;s Sam Amick <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7404230\/2026\/06\/28\/nikola-jokic-nuggets-contract-nba-offseason\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that there&#8217;s no mandate from owners to shed salary, but they&#8217;ve rarely been among the league&#8217;s biggest spenders, even during the Joki\u0107 era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Denver Nuggets have had three straight, earlier-than-expected playoff exits since winning the title in 2026. And that&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-766680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}