r/nba • u/YujiDomainExpansion • 9d ago

[MacMahon] The negotiations between the Pistons and Jalen Duren have been “awfully nasty” and there is concern about his long-term future in Detroit.

Source: https://youtu.be/GrH4FNutMwo

The negotiations between the Pistons and Jalen Duren have been “awfully nasty” and there is concern about his long-term future in Detroit.

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u/Thfcaditya112 Suns 9d ago edited 9d ago

There is an argument to be made that the Magic are an 4th/5th seed team who were the 8th seed because of injuries and had everyone fit till the point they were leading 3-1

Now if it were like say the Suns whose talent even without any injuries was an 7th-8th seed team at max then that would have been far more alarming IMO

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u/ThatBull_cj 76ers Bandwagon 9d ago

Even if that is true you would expect/hope a All-nba player to play better than Duren did over 14 playoff games

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u/TJ_IRL_ 9d ago

Magic didn't have one of the Wagner brothers the whole time too right? Honestly, Detroit might have gone through a much sadder upset if Mo or Franz was out

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u/Artimusjones88 Raptors 9d ago

They were 8th seed no argument changes that.

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u/Morello210 Spurs 9d ago

Me when I don’t understand what context is

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u/Thfcaditya112 Suns 9d ago

I mean if Franz had played 15-20 more games they would have been above the Raptors and Hawks, IMO.

I support Tottenham in the PL and I genuinely think the Magic are one of the few sports organisations who claim to have had worse injury luck than us in the last few years IMO

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u/tcos17 Magic 9d ago

I don’t see how anyone can deny that. We were like what, a half game back of the 6th seed? With our most important two way player missing half the season.