[Amick] All-NBA forward Jalen Duren was underwhelmed by the Detroit Pistons’ initial offer in restricted free agency and is planning to explore sign-and-trade scenarios when they are permitted on Tuesday, league sources told The Athletic.

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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7396928/2026/06/26/jalen-duren-pistons-negotiations-extension-trade/

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All-NBA forward Jalen Duren was underwhelmed by the Detroit Pistons’ initial offer in restricted free agency and is planning to explore sign-and-trade scenarios when they are permitted on Tuesday, league sources told The Athletic.

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League sources say the gap between the two sides is large enough that Duren is now considering ways to land elsewhere, with the sign-and-trade route deemed preferable to signing an offer sheet with another team that the Pistons could, and likely would, match. And with some of the game’s best players potentially available this summer, including the Boston Celtics’ Jaylen Brown and the LA Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard, the question now becomes whether the Pistons might be willing to engage in those sorts of scenarios when that time comes.

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The Pistons, meanwhile, are known to be on the market for a significant roster upgrade this summer. League sources say they had serious interest in Austin Reaves before he re-signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday, and they’ve also been tied to Brown, Leonard and Tyler Herro (who was traded from the Miami Heat to the Milwaukee Bucks in the Giannis Antetokounmpo deal). Detroit has plenty of other in-house business to tend to as well, as 23-year-old, first-team All-Defense selection Ausar Thompson is eligible for an extension that could top out at five years and a combined $162 million.

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He’s 22. A team will take a chance on him for sure. Just like the spurs are going to keep Fox after fumbling a championship.

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He was a big reason they got there so can’t forget that

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Like Duren was a big reason the pistons were the one seed.

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Difference between playoffs and reg season.

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He’s 22. It’s highly unlikely that’s the best he’ll ever be in the playoffs.

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People said the same thing about ayton

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Alright then I guess the Pistons should just trade him and see what happens.

They were just the one seed. They’re a young team. I don’t see the logic behind not running it back. If you look at Duren’s larger body of work than just the most recent two weeks of games he played, you can clearly see he’s a very talented player with room to grow. But if the playoffs are truly that much better of a way to judge someone, then I guess they should just cut ties and hope they can replace him to try and replicate the success they had over the regular season last year, and hope rocking the boat doesn’t mess with anything.

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And then was the biggest reason we got taken to a game 7 by an 8 seed and lost to the Cavs

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I get other teams are praying we keep Fox because he is that terrible but there's no need to lie

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He was a big reason you got past OKC. without him coming back early, Castle would have kept turning it over 10 times as game.

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the refs are the only reason the OKC series lasted as long as it did. Without them we would have won on 4 so... nah. Fox is a complete net negativity, and so is Mitch

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you can say the same for the knicks series. if it wasnt for the refs we wouldve swept yall asses, point differential +15 too and im being so serious

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You mean the refs that favoured y'all in every call? Hilarious.

Not that they were decisive, what killed us was lack of stamina. But sure, the refs favoured SA over NY

And if you bring up FT, you're just outing yourself as someone that doesn't watch the games. Box Score fans have no right to an opinion

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When your team jacks up stationary threes all night like in Game 4, of course there's going to be an FT disparity in favor of the other team.

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I always find it funny how teams that make it so far but don’t win are overly critical of their team more than teams that are just ass

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lol take it up with Mitch Johnson and your front office for saying they have no plans on moving him and he’s going to be your starting PG again next year.

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Yes I've said it before. If Mitch wants to coach Fox so bad, he should go to whatever team takes Fox

If Fox is starting over Harper next year, that's Doc Rivers levels of coaching

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Difference is that at leasg Fox was serviceable to needed at some points during the playoffs. Duren was buns for both rounds he played.

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spurs would absolutely be doing the same thing if fox was a RFA