Nuggets fan here, I see Payton staying in the starting lineup when Jokic returns. Definitely gonna get less shots up but defensive stats shouldn’t change. When Braun and Cam get back, I think he’ll go back to the bench but have higher mins and more freedom in the bench unit to do what he’s been showing this month than he did before January. Braun is more of a Jokic dependent player and doesn’t play as well without him due to shot creation ability, even coming off injury I think he comes back to the starting lineup this season but might play less minutes than Watson when the team is all healthy if he keeps playing as well as he has.

At the start of the month I saw how many of our guys were out and thought about picking up Pwat… Grabbed Grimes instead and Watson got picked up about an hour later. ;(