Jalen Duren had plenty to talk about Saturday during a celebration in his hometown. His contract situation with the Detroit Pistons was not one of those things.
Duren returned to Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, for Jalen Duren Day, an annual community event that included a street being named in his honor. The 22-year-old spoke about giving back and continuing to improve as a player, but according to a report from the event, he declined to comment when asked about his unresolved contract with Detroit.
The decision to stay quiet comes at an increasingly uncomfortable point in negotiations.
Just one day earlier, the latest report on Duren's contract talks detailed ESPN insider Tim MacMahon's concerns about how contentious the process has become. MacMahon said on The Hoop Collective, "But this has been an awfully nasty negotiation. Sometimes these negotiations when they are ugly like this can have long-lasting consequences."
It would be easy to turn Duren's refusal to discuss the contract into evidence that he is finished with Detroit. There is no reporting to support that conclusion.

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