{"id":462644,"date":"2026-02-08T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:23:08","slug":"sources-pistons-convert-daniss-jenkins-to-standard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462644\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Pistons convert Daniss Jenkins to standard deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-pistons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> are signing two-way guard <a data-player-guid=\"6f2883eb-76f2-35e1-99b8-3f2a234ba41e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5107199\/daniss-jenkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniss Jenkins<\/a> to a two-year contract, with a team option for 2026-27, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons and Jenkins&#8217; agent, Derek Jackson of UNLTD Sports Group, negotiated the new deal using part of the team&#8217;s bi-annual exception.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins has been a revelation for the East&#8217;s No. 1 seed Pistons, playing nearly 17 minutes per game with seven starts after rarely seeing the court last season. A strong perimeter defender, Jenkins is up to 39% from distance this season to go along with 3.3 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins, 24, went undrafted out of St. John&#8217;s in 2024 before signing a two-way deal with the Pistons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Pistons are signing two-way guard Daniss Jenkins to a two-year contract, with a team option for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-462644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}