Nightcap Hour 2: Jalen Duren TRADE RUMORS Heating Up + Hawks DECLINE Jonathan Kuminga’s $24.3M Option + Draymond TURNS DOWN $27.7M Option for Potential LeBron MOVE + Ben Simmons EYEING COMEBACK

**Chad Johnson** (0:00)
I like it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:01)
Jalen Duren, trade reports are heating up, according to Chris Hayes. Due to sizable distance in the partner negotiation, Detroit Pistons Restricted Free Agent Center, Jalen Duren, will meet with Sacramento Kings at the start of free agency, and intentions of structuring a signing trade out of Detroit. The Kings could trade the Montesa bonus to Detroit for Duren. According to Sam Amick, Duren has a call with the Lakers to discuss the signing trade scenarios. Also, Luca is a big fan of Duren's game. He won't become playoff time. Anyway, everyone knows the Lakers are on the spot looking to upgrade to the center spot, and Duren would certainly qualify. Yet, in stark contrast to the Kings scenario, the Lakers' best offering might be draft capital rather than quality players. They could trade Duren into the Lakers' salary cap space. League sources say the Lakers star Luca Doncic is known to be a fan of Duren's game, which is a monumental factor for any player who's trying to be welcome into the crip.com arena these days.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (0:53)
And listen, this was going to happen. We're going to let you, we really don't want to get 250 So we're going to let you go out there and test the market. We're going to see what the market is going to pay for you.
Yeah, because we'll be able to match whatever the market, you know, so if he can go out there and get a contract for 180 million, we matching that. You feel me?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:15)
Yeah. Yeah, we're just not going to give you $2.90.

**Chad Johnson** (1:19)
So you don't think you're going to get that super max somewhere?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:21)
Hell no.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (1:23)
Ocho, why are you thinking to take it? Why are you thinking to negotiate?

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:26)
He can't get a super max, Ocho, because the super max is they can give you the fifth year.

**Chad Johnson** (1:30)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:32)
He can't get the fifth year. He can only get a four year once you, because see what they try to do is that you sign your own player, then you don't go into the second apron.

**Chad Johnson** (1:39)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (1:39)
So now he can't get the fifth year. He can only get a fourth year. So four years, I mean, it's going to be like $120 million less. Oh, yeah. So Joe, you might be right, like a four for $179, four for $180 like a All-Stars he's got.

**Chad Johnson** (2:00)
Yeah.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:01)
I think the Pistons will gladly pay that versus having to pay him $250, bro. I mean, it's just.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:07)
No, it would be $297 to Supermax because he made the All-NBA team.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:10)
Yeah, he ain't getting that, Ocho.

**Chad Johnson** (2:13)
So he won that $297, huh?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:15)
Yeah, it's like $289 to $293.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:19)
It just don't affect the game enough, bro, to get somebody. You know what I mean? Yeah, he a blue collar hard worker, average 20 and 10 throughout the regular season, but damn, that playoff run just didn't help him at all. You feel me?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:31)
It didn't. And I don't really think they that excited about playing the 180, Joe.
I understand that he's 22 years of age, but.

**Chad Johnson** (2:41)
And he only 22?

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:43)
If you make it seem like K. Cunningham, 27, he show up. That was supposed to be our one-two punch.

**Chad Johnson** (2:50)
Right.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:52)
That's supposed to be Shay J.
That's supposed to be JT JB. That's what K. Cunningham and Duren supposed to be. Everybody have that one-two punch.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:01)
They're going to bring him back. They just don't want to bring him back at the price that he's trying to negotiate right now. I mean, it's too damn high right now. I'm going to Ocho. I'm just keeping 100

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:13)
You ain't got, yeah. I mean, you got to think about it, Joe. I mean, he just, I mean, he ain't got no jump shot. He just a picker. He just a role, a role player.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:19)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:21)
I mean, he rolls, he dunk. Get some off, get some little offensive rebound. But I'm saying, to pay that kind of money, bro, I need a mini, I need some threes or something.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:29)
They still need, they.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:31)
I just can't pay you that just to be a role guy.
And when I say role, I mean, role to the basket. I don't mean R-O-L-E or role player. I mean, that's what he is.