Detroit Pistons point guard Daniss Jenkins, who is currently on a two-way contract, reportedly rejected an offer to have his deal converted into a standard minimum NBA contract, according to Marc Stein on Substack. That should be a temporary bump in the road to securing Jenkins’ future in Detroit for this season and beyond.
It’s been clear for months now that two-way guard Daniss Jenkins is destined to stick with the Detroit Pistons all season and have his deal converted into a standard NBA contract.
It’s been clear from Jenkins’ play, and it’s also been clear with how the Pistons have utilized the second-year undrafted player.
Detroit has never been shy about having him up with the big club and putting him into games. Despite there still being several months in the season, Jenkins only has three games of eligibility left with the Pistons under his current two-way deal.
Stein writes that “no alarm bells are sounding in Motown yet.” Stein writes that Jenkins’ camp believes he has played well enough to garner multi-year offers in the open market in July as he enters restricted free agency.
As far as what a final deal might look like, Stein looks at breakout two-way players of years’ past and notes that a Jenkins deal might look similar to Ajay Mithcell’s in OKC (three years, $9 million) or Deuce McBride in New York (three years, $12 million).
Whatever the number ends up being, it shouldn’t impede Detroit’s ability to keep improving the team, and Daniss has been exactly what this team has needed, with toe-to-toe PIstons DNA.
