Jan 21, 2026; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren (0) reacts to a play against the New Orleans Pelicans during the second half at Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Lew-Imagn Images If the Jonathan Kuminga rumors and drama felt like they took forever last season, this season’s Jalen Duren saga is trying to match it. With just a week left until Duren’s qualifying offer deadline (October 1), Duren and the Pistons have yet to agree on a new contract. The P...
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Detroit’s latest $200 million offer reportedly requires Jalen Duren to undergo monthly weigh-ins despite no publicly known weight problems.
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Following up on a Shams Charania report indicating that the Pistons have included weight-related incentives in some of their offers to restricted free agent Jalen Duren this offseason, Hunter Patterson and Sam Amick of The Athletic confirm as much. While Patterson and Amick previously reported that Detroit’s latest five-year, $200MM offer to Duren is fully […]
The offseason has been a weird one for the Detroit Pistons, particularly when it comes to Jalen Duren contract talks. Last season, the fourth-year center made the All-Star Game for the first time after averaging 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds. The Pistons earned the one-seed in the Eastern Conference, too. However, Duren struggled mightily in […]
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Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren has received a contract offer that includes weight-related incentives, according to Hunter Patterson and Sam Amick of The Athletic . Detroit's latest proposal reportedly calls for Duren to have his weight checked every month throughout the calendar year. The request came as a surprise to Duren and his representatives, especially because the 6-foot-10, 250-pound center has never been publicly known to have weight issues and has consistently displayed elite ath...
The unexpectedly long contract talks between the Detroit Pistons and Jalen Duren took a bizarre turn over his weight this […]
The Detroit Pistons' latest contract offer to restricted free-agent center Jalen Duren reportedly includes an uncommon weight clause.
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DETROIT — The Detroit Pistons included a weight clause in their latest contract offer to restricted free agent center Jalen Duren that would require him to check his weight every month throughout the calendar year, according to a report Thursday by The Athletic’s Hunter Patterson. League sources told Patterson that Duren and his camp were […]
The Kings reportedly offered Domantas Sabonis in a potential Jalen Duren sign-and-trade, but the Pistons declined the summer proposal.
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The Pistons should have known this was coming and acted much earlier than they did.
The Pistons aren't in a spot to meet the Pelicans' ridiculous demands for Trey Murphy III.
The Detroit Pistons are regarded as one of the most exciting young teams in the league, led by a three-headed monster in Cade Cunningham, Ausar Thompson, and Jalen Duren. All they need to do now is keep this core together. Two of the three players have already been paid. The other is still negotiating. Cunningham [...]
By Dana Gauruder | at September 23, 2026 4:42 pm Ausar Thompson plans to take a more aggressive approach on the offensive end this season and become a more well-rounded player, he told Omari Sankofa II of the Detroit Free Press. “One thing a lot of people say is sometimes if you’re too unselfish, you’re being selfish,” the Pistons’ wing said. “I feel like that’s an adjustment for myself because I can go get it on a smaller guy, or attack a mismatch, but I see someone who might not even have as...
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Jalen Duren has not accepted the Detroit Pistons‘ five-year, $200 million contract extension offer. After months of negotiating, the Pistons gave in and offered the deal that Duren wanted. Now that the franchise offered him the deal he wanted, the star big man is still playing the waiting game. The Pistons want him back, since [...]
The Detroit Pistons can't even enjoy the thought of Karl-Anthony Towns potentially leaving the Knicks next summer because of their situation with Jalen Duren.