The Denver Nuggets are poised to get a boost on Sunday when they host the Portland Trail Blazers, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania, who reported Saturday that Peyton Watson is expected to return after missing more than six weeks with a hamstring strain.
Watson’s breakout season was interrupted by injury in early February, and that setback sidelined him the past 19 games.
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Before he went down with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain late in a double-overtime road loss to the New York Knicks on Feb. 4, he was playing the best basketball of his young career.
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In fact, from Dec. 31 to Feb. 4, he averaged 21.5 points, 5.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.1 steals per game while shooting 48.5% from the field during that span, including 43.9% from 3-point land.
That surge began on New Year’s Eve, coinciding with the start of Nikola Jokić’s 16-game absence from an injury that saw him suffer a bone bruise while hyperextending his left knee on Dec. 29.
This story is being updated.