{"id":305264,"date":"2025-11-21T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305264\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:09:08","slug":"daniss-jenkins-fueled-by-st-johns-lessons-in-pistons-breakout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305264\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniss Jenkins fueled by St. John’s lessons in Pistons breakout"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was last spring in Detroit, during the memorable Knicks-Pistons opening-round playoff series, when I opted to attend a practice for the home team, looking to catch up with former St. John\u2019s star Daniss Jenkins.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t going to appear in the series, because players on two-way contracts<\/a> are ineligible for the postseason. It didn\u2019t stop him from being the last Piston on the practice floor, getting up as many shots as he could, as if this preparation would be essential to helping Detroit advance.<\/p>\n

What struck me most was his confidence, despite appearing in just seven games in his first season as a professional and without a contract for the following year. His two-way deal was for only for his rookie season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know I can play in this league for sure,\u201d the sweat-drenched Jenkins said then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was last spring in Detroit, during the memorable Knicks-Pistons opening-round playoff series, when I opted to attend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4044,4576,158353,355,4892,14601,99,358,14602],"class_list":["post-305264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-college-basketball","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-inside-st-johns","tag-nba","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-rick-pitino","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}