- Jalen Duren probably signs a deal worth about $40 million a year.
“You could pay Joe and earn $40 million a year, which it seems like is going to happen.”
Duren agreed to a five-year, $200M fully guaranteed deal with the Pistons on Oct 1, 2026, just before the qualifying-offer deadline. That averages $40M a year, matching Lowe's figure.
- Source: ESPN ↗ Jalen Duren accepts 5-year, $200M deal from Pistons · Oct 2, 2026
In context
Billoffer with Harden
Billwhere the teams, it's like, oh, you know, Harden's agent. It's like, yeah, okay. So he's stuck at four for 50. It's like, fuse with us. That's five for 80. No question.
BillWe'd max him out. And now you plant that in the agents there and it's like, I mean, Houston would pay us that. And now you're so I feel like teams are teams are seeding that. Let's game it
Loweout. Like, let's let's go back like two months to to pretend like there's a little or a month and a half to pretend that there's a little more like flexibility among the other 29 teams who now have their rosters mostly filled, etc. You could pay Joe and earn $40 million a year, which it seems like is going to happen.
LoweBecause even the reports of them being apart are like, they're now just like 10 million apart
Billover five years. They're at 190 and he's at 40 a year. So yeah,
Loweyou're basically there. Don't figure that out.
From the episode transcript around 00:33:02. Speaker names are recognized by voice.

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