{"id":703677,"date":"2026-04-07T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:51:40","slug":"the-pistons-currently-can-offer-him-a-maximum-of-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703677\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pistons currently can offer him a maximum of up to \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A rundown of Jalen Duren\u2019s\u00a0contract\u00a0situation: The 22-year-old center will become a restricted free agent this summer, after he and the Pistons failed to agree to an extension on his rookie\u00a0contract\u00a0before the Oct. 20 deadline. Assuming the Pistons extend his qualifying offer \u2013 a formality for a team intending to\u00a0re-sign\u00a0its own player \u2013 they will either be able to sign him to a multi-year deal or match any outside offers for Duren.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pistons\/2026\/04\/07\/detroit-pistons-jalen-duren-contract-extension-ausar-thompson\/89485167007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on Detroit Free Press\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">The Pistons currently can offer him a maximum of up to five years and roughly $239 million. That represents a starting salary of around $41.4 million, or 25% of next year\u2019s salary cap, with 8% annual raises. An outside team would be limited to offering a maximum four-year\u00a0contract\u00a0with 5% annual raises, which would clock in at about $177.4 million with the same starting salary.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoopshype.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/pistons\/2026\/04\/07\/detroit-pistons-jalen-duren-contract-extension-ausar-thompson\/89485167007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on Detroit Free Press\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Free Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rundown of Jalen Duren\u2019s\u00a0contract\u00a0situation: The 22-year-old center will become a restricted free agent this summer, after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[72400,7,296,188,3860,6,297,72987,72988,72404,72471,76759,73174,72664,72445,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-703677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-detroitpistons","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-pistons","15":"tag-sstssportsnbarumors","16":"tag-sstsnnba-rumors","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagdetroit-pistons","19":"tag-tagfree-agency","20":"tag-taghide-headline-hoops-hype","21":"tag-tagjalen-duren","22":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116364462370590831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703677","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=703677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}