07-28-2026, 09:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-28-2026, 09:10 AM by Scott41theMavs.)
Duren, meanwhile, is simply living in the pre-summer-of-‘26 in which teams handed out 100% undeserved max contracts to players because that was the expectation to avoid insulting them. He’s the surprising-to-him casualty of this new world in which most teams are smart enough to pay you no more than either what you’re really worth or (gasp) the market value (which is slightly inflated, especially for RFAs). Duren is fuming about that fraction of the millions he’s losing out on, and feels disrespected. Too bad. Not one iota of leverage. Suck it up, buttercup. Not the Pistons’ problem you’re a brat on PCP.


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