{"id":457287,"date":"2026-02-09T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:26:08","slug":"sources-pistons-convert-daniss-jenkins-to-standard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457287\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Pistons convert Daniss Jenkins to standard deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/charania_shams.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Shams CharaniaFeb 9, 2026, 04:40 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>Shams Charania is a senior NBA insider for ESPN. Charania reports NBA news and information across ESPN platforms and also contributes to ESPN&#8217;s exclusive coverage of the NBA draft. Charania has previously worked for FanDuel TV, Stadium, The Athletic, Yahoo Sports, RealGM and ChicagoNow. He is a Chicago native and graduated from Loyola University in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Authors<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4e096981-dc02-51d0-3dcd-2468fcc1e22d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.in\/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 an unexpected contributor for the East&#8217;s No. 1 seed Pistons, averaging nearly 17 minutes per game and starting seven games after rarely playing last season. A strong perimeter defender, Jenkins is shooting 39% from distance this season and averaging 8.2 points and 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":"Shams CharaniaFeb 9, 2026, 04:40 AM CloseShams Charania is a senior NBA insider for ESPN. Charania reports NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-457287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457287","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=457287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}