{"id":657187,"date":"2026-10-26T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T02:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T02:58:10","slug":"jalen-duren-out-2-weeks-with-hamstring-strain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657187\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Duren out 2 weeks with hamstring strain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2376408\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2376408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2300667705-scaled-e1792977941477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"960\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2376408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detroit Pistons All-Star center Jalen Duren will miss at least two weeks with a strained right hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Detroit Pistons All-Star center Jalen Duren will miss at least two weeks with a strained right hamstring.<\/p>\n<p>Duren was injured in the first half of Detroit\u2019s win over Miami on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough when you lose a guy that means as much to us as JD does,\u201d coach J.B. Bickerstaff said before Sunday\u2019s game in Philadelphia. \u201cIt\u2019s tough. Tough for him. Trying to come back and get himself situated to start the year. You miss those days. It\u2019s obviously a little bit difficult for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duren signed a five-year, $200 million contract in October after contentious contract talks. Duren averaged a career-high 19.5 points last season, along with 10.5 rebounds per game on 65% shooting. He made the All-NBA third team but struggled in the playoffs, averaging 10.2 points as the top-seeded Pistons failed to get out of the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Duren averaged 13.5 points over his first four NBA seasons, all with Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons All-Star center Jalen Duren will miss at least two weeks with a strained right hamstring. PHILADELPHIA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,295725,295724,295726,105],"class_list":["post-657187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jalen-duren-hamstring","tag-jalen-duren-injury","tag-jalen-duren-pistons","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}