What happens to the Pistons' player props without Jalen Duren?

Jalen Duren will not play for Detroit at New York on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The ESPN injury feed lists him as out in an entry dated October 25, 2026; its comment says he “suffered the hamstring injury in Friday’s win over Miami and is set to miss an extended period”. Ausar Thompson (ankle) and Isaiah Joe (hip) are listed day-to-day in entries dated October 26. Detroit has played three games this season, two with Duren and one without him, so the comparisons below come mainly from last season: the Pistons played 82 regular-season games in 2025-26, Duren played 10 or more minutes in 70 of them, and 12 came without him. Our logs do not say why he missed those games, so the cause is unknown.

A game counts as with Duren when he played at least 10 minutes, a fifth of regulation. He played fewer than 20 minutes five times last season, the fewest 12, and those games count as with him. His last game of 2025-26 was April 10 at Charlotte (22 minutes, 20 points, 9 rebounds); he sat the finale on April 12 at Indiana. Of the 12 games without him, 6 were at home.

The Pistons, with Duren against without him

Detroit scored and rebounded about the same without Duren, and made more threes: 13.92 a game against 10.50, a gap of 3.42 at the mean and 4.5 at the median. Twelve games is a small sample, and the rest of the roster changed across those games too, so read the gap as what happened, not as a rule.

Duren himself averaged 19.50 points, 10.53 rebounds and 1.97 assists in 28.26 minutes in the games he played.

The teammates: minutes and points

The teammates: rebounds, assists and threes

Every figure is per game the player played, in the group of games shown. Games with and games without count the games each player appeared in, so a player who missed games himself has a smaller count than the group: Cunningham played 7 of the 12 games without Duren and sat 5, and Kevin Huerter’s first game for Detroit was February 5, so his columns are 21 and 4 games. Tolu Smith played 8 of the 12 games without Duren, 13.25 minutes a game (median 15.5) against 4.43 (median 3) in his 7 games with him, with 4.88 rebounds (median 3) against 1.43 (median 1).

The 12 games, one by one

Three of the 12 came against the Knicks, Tuesday’s opponent: Detroit scored 121 and 118 at home and 126 at New York, and Reed had 8, 12 and 18 points in those three. Reed’s 28 points on November 12 and 26 on April 12 are the two games that lift his mean above his median.

Two players who took front-court minutes in those games are not on this season’s roster. Isaiah Stewart played 7 of the 12, 26.14 minutes a game (median 29) with 14.29 points (median 14) and 5.43 rebounds (median 5), and Tobias Harris, now with San Antonio, played 5 of them at 28.40 minutes with 17.60 points (median 15) and 7.20 rebounds (median 6). Caris LeVert played 9 of the 12 and is gone too. So some of the minutes that opened last season went to players who are not there now.

Three games this season, one without him

On October 20 vs Boston the Pistons scored 121: Duren had 22 points and 9 rebounds in 28 minutes, Paul Reed 6 points and 6 rebounds in 17, and John Collins 6 points and 5 rebounds in 25. On October 23 at Miami the Pistons scored 128; Duren left after 10 minutes with 4 points and 6 rebounds, which counts as a game with him by the rule but is the one-game look at the team playing on without him: Reed had 19 points and 11 rebounds in 26 minutes, Collins 23 points and 7 rebounds in 29, and Daniss Jenkins 15 points in 22. On October 25 at Philadelphia, the one full game without him, the Pistons scored 106: Collins had 16 points and 11 rebounds in 34 minutes, Reed 8 points and 8 rebounds in 23, Ronald Holland II 9 rebounds in 23, Jenkins 18 points in 38 and Cade Cunningham 26 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in 33; Ausar Thompson has no row in our log for that game, and Isaiah Joe played 4 minutes. One game is not a sample.

What this can and cannot tell you

The clearest shift tied to Duren’s role is Paul Reed’s: 16.15 more minutes a game, 9.19 more points and 4.06 more rebounds at the mean, and his rebounds held up at the median too (7.5 against 4). Javonte Green and Daniss Jenkins also played more and scored more, but Cunningham sat 5 of the 12 games, so part of that came from his absence rather than Duren’s.

The roster has changed since. John Collins, Isaiah Joe, Taurean Prince, Elijah Harkless, Ebuka Okorie and Ugonna Onyenso did not play for Detroit in 2025-26, and Collins has taken the most front-court minutes in the three games so far. Stewart and Harris, who took minutes in last season’s games without Duren, are gone. With the cause of last season’s absences unknown and the roster changed, none of this forecasts Tuesday’s game at New York, and none of it says anything about prices.

Where to find these

Each player has a page with every game beside the line: Paul Reed’s rebounds, Cade Cunningham’s points and John Collins’s rebounds. Tuesday’s lines appear on the Lab board once the game is posted. The NBA allowance tables are on defense vs position for NBA props, and the same question for another team’s center is in Jazz props without Jusuf Nurkic.

Source: our NBA game logs, regular season only, Detroit’s 82 games in 2025-26 through April 12, 2026, and its 3 games of 2026-27 through October 25. Status as listed on the ESPN injury feed, entry dated October 25, 2026, read October 26, 2026.