{"id":418738,"date":"2026-06-30T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=418738"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:16:22","slug":"reports-pistons-c-jalen-duren-aiming-to-join-kings-in-sign-and-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/reports-pistons-c-jalen-duren-aiming-to-join-kings-in-sign-and-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Pistons C Jalen Duren aiming to join Kings in sign-and-trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 29 &#8211; Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren plans to meet with the Sacramento Kings when free agency begins \u200bto pursue a sign-and-trade deal, NBA on \u200cPrime and The Athletic reported Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duren and the Pistons were far apart in recent negotiations, per reports, with \u200bthe big man eligible for a five-year, $287.1 million \u200bextension &#8212; $57.42 million per year &#8212; because he was \u2060named to the All-NBA third team this year. \u200bHoopsHype recently reported that Duren&#8217;s camp was seeking $40 \u200bmillion per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Duren averaged 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in 70 games (all starts) in the regular season, his fourth \u200bseason in the NBA, the first-time All-Star \u200bwas far less effective in two playoff series for the \u200ctop-seeded \u2060Pistons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The eighth-seeded Orlando Magic and fourth-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers both pushed Detroit to seven games before the Cavaliers eliminated the Pistons in the second round. Duren \u200baveraged 10.2 \u200bpoints and \u20608.5 rebounds in 14 postseason games, including four games in single-figure scoring in \u200bthe Cleveland series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Athletic reported that &#8220;the \u200bmost likely \u2060scenario&#8221; in a Duren sign-and-trade to Sacramento would involve Domantas Sabonis being sent to Detroit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sabonis, a \u2060three-time \u200bAll-Star center\/forward, has career averages of \u200b16.1 points, 10.7 rebounds and 4.9 assists in 665 career \u200bgames for Oklahoma City (2016-17), Indiana (2017-22) and Sacramento (2022-26).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29 &#8211; Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren plans to meet with the Sacramento Kings when free agency begins \u200bto pursue a sign-and-trade deal, NBA on \u200cPrime and The Athletic reported Monday. Duren and the Pistons were far apart in recent negotiations, per reports, with \u200bthe big man eligible for a five-year, $287.1 million \u200bextension [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418739,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418738\/revisions\/418739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}