UPDATE: The Denver Nuggets are the NBA’s lone team in the second apron. With the Nuggets’ decision to match the two-year, $12 million offer sheet for Spencer Jones, they find themselves in the dreaded second apron all while Peyton Watson remains a restricted free agent, hoping for a deal that will pay him over $20 million annually. The second apron has acted as a hard cap for many teams since its introduction during the last CBA. Teams are typically aggressive in their pursuit of avoiding it, notably New York Knicks owner James Dolan said of the second apron: “We’re willing to stretch, but there’s certain things in the NBA that you’d have to be suicidal to do. One of them is the second apron.” Dolan’s comments followed the Knicks first NBA title in over five decades. In a nutshell, the second apron significantly hampers the Nuggets’ ability to modify their roster moving forward, as they cannot combine players’ salaries in trades and lose access to the taxpayer midlevel exception,...