Free Agent Rumors: Duren, Watson, Mathurin, Knicks

Accepting his $9.6MM qualifying offer is a fallback option for Jalen Duren if he doesn’t get a long-term contract offer he likes from the Pistons, but the consensus around the NBA is that it would be a mistake for the 22-year-old to go that route, according to Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints.
“You can’t take the qualifying offer coming off an All-Star season,” one Western Conference executive told Siegel. “It’s almost like a death sentence. Nobody will view you c