{"id":769801,"date":"2026-06-29T22:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769801\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T22:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:53:12","slug":"report-pistons-rfa-duren-to-meet-with-kings-at-start-of-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769801\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pistons RFA Duren to meet with Kings at start of free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pistons and their restricted free agent centre are well apart in negotiations, so Duren will meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"sacramento-kings\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> at the start of free agency, NBA on Prime&#8217;s Chris Haynes reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Duren is meeting with the Kings with the intention of structuring a sign-and-trade out of Detroit, Haynes adds. <\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old is eligible to sign a five-year, $287.1-million extension this off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Duren broke out in 2025-26, averaging 19.5 points and 10.5 rebounds on 65 per cent shooting in 70 games played. Duren made his first all-star team and the All-NBA third team for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a strong regular season, Duren struggled in the playoffs, averaging 10.2 points and 8.5 rebounds in 14 games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pistons and their restricted free agent centre are well apart in negotiations, so Duren will meet the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-769801","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\/769801","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=769801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}