Last postseason, Aaron Gordon pushed himself to play through an injury to get back on the court for Denver, but it wasn’t enough for Denver as it got bounced in the first round of the playoffs by Minnesota.
Peyton Watson did not play in that series after suffering a hamstring injury in February that lingered through the final months of the season and the playoffs. Watson was heading into free agency this summer — he just completed a sign-and-trade that gets him to Cleveland with a new four-year, $88 million contract — and the decision for him not to play in the postseason was to protect him from himself, Watson’s agent Rich Paul said on his…
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