{"id":573602,"date":"2026-01-31T20:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573602\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:21:19","slug":"daniss-jenkins-reportedly-declined-two-year-deal-from-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/573602\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniss Jenkins Reportedly Declined Two-Year Deal From Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second-year guard Daniss Jenkins<\/a> recently declined a two-year, minimum-salary contract offer from the Pistons, report Jake Fischer and Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Substack link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"Jenkins, 24, is currently on a two-way deal and soon needs to be converted to a standard contact to remain eligible to play, as he\u2019s only three games from his 50-game active limit after Friday\u2019s win at Golden State. To be clear, the two-year offer would have covered the remainder of 2025\/26 as well as 2026\/27.<\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s still an expectation<\/a> that Jenkins will come to a more lucrative contract agreement with Detroit, according to Fischer and Stein, who cite Ajay Mitchell<\/a> (three years, $9MM with Oklahoma City) and Miles McBride<\/a> (four years, $12MM with New York) as points of reference.<\/p>\n

An offer above the minimum would require the Pistons to use the bi-annual exception<\/a>, as they spent<\/a> their entire non-taxpayer mid-level exception to sign Caris LeVert<\/a> in the offseason.<\/p>\n

If the two sides are unable to reach an agreement in the short term, Fischer and Stein hear the 24-year-old is expected to receive multiyear offers in restricted free agency this summer. The Pistons would have the right to match any potential offer sheet Jenkins signs in that scenario.<\/p>\n

Jenkins has been a rotation regular for Detroit, averaging 7.7 PPG, 3.4 APG, 1.7 RPG and 0.9 SPG on .418\/.386\/.787 shooting in 39 games (16.7 MPG). He\u2019s had some memorable performances this season and has a reputation as a solid defender.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Detroit currently has a full 15-man standard roster and the team would have to make at least one change to convert Jenkins\u2019 contact. Stein previously reported the promotion was likely to occur after the February 5 trade deadline, enabling the Pistons to maximize their financial and roster flexibility.<\/p>\n

Although the Pistons have been signaling for weeks that they don\u2019t plan to make a major move ahead of the trade deadline, they continue to weigh the possibility of pursuing wing scorers like Nets forward Michael Porter Jr.<\/a> or Hornets forward Miles Bridges<\/a>, according to Fischer and Stein. However, there\u2019s no indication Detroit has been in active discussions about those players.<\/p>\n

Fischer and Stein hear Charlotte wants at least one first-round pick for Bridges, while Brooklyn \u201cis known to be seeking more than that\u201d for Porter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-year guard Daniss Jenkins recently declined a two-year, minimum-salary contract offer from the Pistons, report Jake Fischer and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,6101,296,188,3860,562,10510,6,297],"class_list":{"0":"post-573602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-daniss-jenkins","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-michael-porter-jr","14":"tag-miles-bridges","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-pistons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115991576073896320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573602","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=573602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}