J.E. Skeets

I'll take our first restricted free agent.

I'll take Jalen Duren, okay?

He can make up to 30% of the cap.

That would be $287.1 million across five years from Detroit.

But after that disastrous playoff performance where I think we said he was dropping coins like he was Sonic the Hedgehog after each game,

he's going to lose a lot of money.

And, you know, I guess in a weird way, that could be great for Detroit here.

Oddly looking at it like a discount because I saw Bobby Marks thinks he's looking at probably like five-year 180 million now.

That's a hell of a drop off if, you know, he had played at an elite level in the playoffs and we're like, oh yeah, max guy, no doubt.

I mean, he's not there and you shouldn't do that.

So I don't know what it will be.

I think he's staying with Detroit, but he did have the third largest scoring decrease by an all-star from the regular season to the playoffs in NBA history.

It was bad.

We were there.

We watched every minute of it and it was rough.

but he is still a good player and you're just hoping that was, you know, get that out of your system type thing and obviously continue to grow.

He's still young and he was important to a bunch of regular season wins.

So I don't know what number you have in mind.

You think Jalen Duren or even the idea of obviously a team trying to get him.

He's probably a $40 million player.