{"id":515705,"date":"2026-01-04T08:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515705\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:36:51","slug":"jalen-duren-injury-update-detroit-pistons-center-exits-early-vs-heat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515705\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Duren injury update: Detroit Pistons center exits early vs Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Duren has been ruled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/sports\/pistons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Pistons&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Pistons&#8217;<\/a> home game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/14\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Heat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Heat<\/a> with a right ankle sprain, the team announced Thursday, Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The big man rolled his ankle midway through the second half and went back to the locker room with 54.3 seconds left until halftime. Duren started the second half but still was favoring his ankle. He subbed out for good with 8:47 to play in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren (0) grabs an offensive rebound against the Miami Heat in the first quarter at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1440\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767515811_503_fdfb43e5df7e108774ff62464c3e5d9d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Detroit Pistons center Jalen Duren (0) grabs an offensive rebound against the Miami Heat in the first quarter at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">OFF THE BENCH: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pistons\/2025\/12\/31\/marcus-sasser-pistons-lakers-game\/87969199007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Marcus Sasser shows his value to Pistons in road win over Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Marcus Sasser shows his value to Pistons in road win over Lakers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons already were without Tobias Harris (left hip sprain) and Caris LeVert (left knee inflammation) prior to Duren&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">ST WATCH:\u00a0Make\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-pistons-pulse\/playlists\/podcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;The Pistons Pulse&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;The Pistons Pulse&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0your go-to Pistons podcast, listen available anywhere you listen to podcasts (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fthe-pistons-pulse%2Fid1610177375&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnba%2Fpistons%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Fpistons-kevin-burleson-coach%2F87401714007%2F&amp;xcust=story%2Fsports%2Fnba%2Fpistons%2F2_u5xPlbMMBxlqiZxOqms7MNI\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Apple<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5zYsMLyTnrQW68xALK7Enz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spotify;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spotify<\/a>) ]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Want more Pistons updates?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=83224X1595658&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.adjust.com%2Fl16oabo%3Ffallback%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcm.freep.com%252Fsubscriberguide%252F%2523apps&amp;xcust=story%2Fsports%2Fnba%2Fpistons%2F2_u5NQE7lOlp3VrVizoYr6l66&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fnba%2Fpistons%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Fmarcus-sasser-pistons-lakers-game%2F87969199007%2F\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download our free app;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download our free app<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news, alerts, eNewspaper and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Contact Omari Sankofa II at osankofa@freepress.com. Follow him on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/omarisankofa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@omarisankofa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@omarisankofa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pistons\/2026\/01\/01\/jalen-duren-injury-update-detroit-pistons-center-exits-early-vs-heat\/87987499007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jalen Duren injury update: Detroit Pistons center exits early vs Heat;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jalen Duren injury update: Detroit Pistons center exits early vs Heat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Duren has been ruled out of the Detroit Pistons&#8217; home game against the Miami Heat with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7168,7,3882,296,188,3860,912,300,3302,189,6,297,933],"class_list":{"0":"post-515705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-ankle-sprain","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-caris-levert","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-pistons","13":"tag-detroitpistons","14":"tag-jalen-duren","15":"tag-lakers","16":"tag-marcus-sasser","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-pistons","20":"tag-tobias-harris"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115835925242168100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}