Nuggets guard Earl Watson could join teammate Eduardo Najera in representing Mexico next year.

Mexican Basketball Alliance president Arturo Guerrero Moreno approached Watson, who is half Mexican, half African-American, on Friday in Denver about playing for the Mexican national team. Watson is eligible to play for Mexico because his maternal grandparents were born there. Although Mexico won't play again until the 2007 FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament, Watson has been invited to play in Najera-hosted charity games in August in Chihuahua and Monterrey, where he could get more acquainted with Moreno.

"I want to see what the whole process is," Watson said. "I play all summer anyway - to be able to play, travel and represent one side of my family and my mom would be important for my family."

Najera is the only Mexico native in the NBA and he is expected to play for the national team next year. Fresno State forward Hector Hernandez, a Chihuahua native who played at Denver's Abraham Lincoln High, also could be on the team.

"(Watson) wants to play," Moreno said. "That would be very good for us. ... It would be great and give us many possibilities. It's very good for the young players in Mexico."