Agent Rich Paul says Peyton Watson was held out of playoffs to protect him from himself

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 Game Over podcast (hat tip Real GM)."You've got to remember, he didn't finish the season.

He didn't play in the playoffs. He was dealing with a hamstring injury, soft tissue injury.

And when you're dealing with those injuries, you have to be very careful in your return. Guys want to play, and you have to protect them from themselves in that moment.

Because you're up for a contract and it's the playoffs, and I've had a pretty good year, so I need to play. And it's important to protect that."There we…

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