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Duren, who just turned 22, has been a revelation for the Pistons, who currently hold the best record in the Eastern Conference thanks in large part to his rapid development.<\/p>\n
In his fourth season, Duren is nearly doubling his career average in points while posting a true shooting percentage of 70 percent. He\u2019s also a machine as a rebounder, ranking sixth in the league, and has vastly improved as a rim protector for the Pistons\u2019 fourth-ranked defense.<\/p>\n
The duo of Cunningham and Duren is one of the best pick-and-rolls in the NBA. Duren has finished more at-rim shots off Cunningham passes than any two-man combination in the league so far this season.<\/p>\n
The Pistons have also empowered Duren to be more of a shot creator and playmaker on his own this season. That has proven fruitful for Detroit\u2019s offense, particularly because it has helped take some of the offensive burden off Cunningham\u2019s shoulders.<\/p>\n
The above video details how Duren thrives in tandem with Cunningham, as well as the three most-improved areas of Duren\u2019s game.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The Detroit Pistons have found themselves the perfect second star next to Cade Cunningham.\u00a0Big man Jalen Duren has become a cornerstone for the Pistons franchise and is well on his way to his first All-Star nod. Duren, who just turned 22, has been a revelation for the Pistons, who currently hold the best record in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/How-Jalen-Duren-became-the-Pistons-second-star.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13468,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions\/13468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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