The Los Angeles Lakers have the luxury of a large market, the sunny SoCal weather, and the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown. They're also the hometown team of Peyton Watson, who grew up playing in Long Beach at Polytechnic High, the same school Snoop Dogg and Cameron Diaz graduated from. For the Nuggets, losers of four of their last five, the timing of the rumor couldn't have been at a worse time.
Watson, who will become a restricted free agent when the season ends, has been rumored to be eyeballing a return to LA. In a story about what's next for the Lakers and Luka Doncic, Kevin Pelton of ESPN had this small blurb about Watson:
"Restricted free agency is trickier for a team such as the Lakers that can't afford to wait out the matching period, but Denver Nuggets forward Peyton Watson-- an L.