{"id":573456,"date":"2026-01-31T18:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:52:15","slug":"report-daniss-jenkins-rejects-pistons-minimum-salary-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573456\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Daniss Jenkins rejects Pistons\u2019 minimum-salary offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Detroit Pistons point guard Daniss Jenkins, who is currently on a two-way contract, reportedly rejected an offer to have his deal converted into a standard minimum NBA contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/saturday-morning-confidential-thek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Marc Stein on Substack<\/a>. That should be a temporary bump in the road to securing Jenkins\u2019 future in Detroit for this season and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s been clear for months now that two-way guard Daniss Jenkins is destined to stick with the Detroit Pistons all season and have his deal converted into a standard NBA contract. It\u2019s been clear from Jenkins\u2019 play, and it\u2019s also been clear with how the Pistons have utilized the second-year undrafted player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Detroit has never been shy about having him up with the big club and putting him into games. Despite there still being several months in the season, Jenkins only has three games of eligibility left with the Pistons under his current two-way deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stein writes that \u201cno alarm bells are sounding in Motown yet.\u201d Stein writes that Jenkins\u2019 camp believes he has played well enough to garner multi-year offers in the open market in July as he enters restricted free agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As far as what a final deal might look like, Stein looks at breakout two-way players of years\u2019 past and notes that a Jenkins deal might look similar to Ajay Mithcell\u2019s in OKC (three years, $9 million) or Deuce McBride in New York (three years, $12 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Whatever the number ends up being, it shouldn\u2019t impede Detroit\u2019s ability to keep improving the team, and Daniss has been exactly what this team has needed, with toe-to-toe PIstons DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons point guard Daniss Jenkins, who is currently on a two-way contract, reportedly rejected an offer to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,48164,3860,6,297,26550],"class_list":["post-573456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-basketball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroit-pistons-trade-rumors","tag-detroitpistons","tag-nba","tag-pistons","tag-pistons-rumors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115991225564791284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573456","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=573456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}