{"id":864449,"date":"2026-08-20T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:12:09","slug":"report-cavs-land-watson-in-4-year-88m-sign-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/864449\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cavs land Watson in 4-year, $88M sign-and-trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers are acquiring restricted free agent Peyton Watson from the Denver Nuggets as part of a multi-team sign-and-trade involving the Los Angeles Clippers, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/49664656\/peyton-watson-cavaliers-max-strus-clippers-part-multi-team-trade-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers will reportedly receive veteran sharpshooter Max Strus, while the Nuggets will get the Cavs&#8217; unprotected 2031 first-round pick as well as the Sacramento Kings&#8217; 2032 second-rounder.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is signing Watson to a four-year, $88-million contract, which includes a player option and a trade kicker.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is also reportedly sending a 2027 second-rounder to Cleveland, which will redirect that draft selection along with Tre Mann and cash to the Washington Wizards for Cam Whitmore, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2090235987599180126?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Charania<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Wizards are sending Julian Resse to the Nuggets, who&#8217;ll waive him, adds Charania.<\/p>\n<p>A previously reported trade that sent Dennis Schroder to the Hornets is being included in this one, making the sign-and-trade a five-team agreement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2090250587757564277\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBA insider Marc Stein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>5-team breakdown<\/p>\n<p>Team<br \/>\nAcquired<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers<br \/>\nPeyton Watson\/Cam Whitmore<\/p>\n<p>Nuggets<br \/>\n2031 1st-round pick (via CLE)\/2032 2nd-round pick (via SAC)\/Julian Reese (waived)<\/p>\n<p>Clippers<br \/>\nMax Strus<\/p>\n<p>Wizards<br \/>\nTre Mann\/2027 2nd-round pick (via PHI)\/cash<\/p>\n<p>Hornets<br \/>\nDennis Schroder\/cash<\/p>\n<p>Watson is coming off a breakout campaign with Nuggets in which he averaged 14.6 points and shot 41.1% from beyond the arc. The 6-foot-8 forward apparently drew interest and offers from the Milwaukee Bucks, Portland Trail Blazers, and Clippers before landing with Cavaliers, according to Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Strus averaged 11.2 points per contest and is a career 37% 3-point shooter. His $16.6-million expiring contract will go into the $17-million John Collins trade exception, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobbyMarks42\/status\/2090229495986835833?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">ESPN&#8217;s Bobby Marks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Cavaliers are acquiring restricted free agent Peyton Watson from the Denver Nuggets as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-864449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}