{"id":757328,"date":"2026-07-11T20:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/757328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T20:47:15","slug":"peyton-watson-rob-pelinka-hug-sparks-lakers-speculation-for-nuggets-star-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/757328\/","title":{"rendered":"Peyton Watson-Rob Pelinka hug sparks Lakers speculation for Nuggets star | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NBA Summer League hug has NBA fans wondering if Denver Nuggets star forward Peyton Watson could be headed to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Watson gave Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka a hug during Summer League festivities on Friday, which invites lots of speculation since Watson could be on the outs in Denver over getting a new contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers would be a really intriguing fit for Watson, although we&#8217;re sure other teams are in the mix should he leave the Nuggets via a sign-and-trade.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not sure what Los Angeles would send back to Denver in that case, but now, we&#8217;re thinking all about it.<\/p>\n<p>Would Watson thrive in the Lakers after getting a promising start with the Nuggets? It&#8217;s an interesting idea!<\/p>\n<p>What are some other landing spot for Watson?<\/p>\n<p>Check out our list.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: Peyton Watson-Rob Pelinka hug sparks Lakers speculation for Nuggets star<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Cory Woodroof, For The Win \/ For The Win<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NBA Summer League hug has NBA fans wondering if Denver Nuggets star forward Peyton Watson could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-757328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}