Jalen Duren: 'I would love to be a Piston for life'
But his future in Michigan was in doubt just before the 2025-26 season, when Jalen Duren and the Pistons failed to come to an agreement on a contract extension by the October 31 deadline, making him a restricted free agent this summer. “I mean, it was what it was,” Duren says softly, looking like a man still reconciling with the decision. “I think it’s tough because there is a business aspect to it.
Like I said, I would love to be a Piston for life. It was nothing personal. Nothing I took personal with the organization or anything.
It was just business. They felt one way, I felt another. And at that moment we couldn’t come to an agreement.
” His general manager seems to be on the same page. “We want him to be a Piston for life, too,” Langdon says. “It had nothing to do with what he had or hadn’t done.
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