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Monty Williams isn’t getting discouraged, despite his Detroit Pistons having lost 11 games in a row. Williams also won’t say that losing habits are engrained for his team.

“I can’t say that. My job is to teach and help guys break habits that they’ve had for a while. I can’t speak to what’s happened in the past, but when you see it, you call it out and help guys grow,” Williams said.

Williams added, “The habits are something we’ve talked about since the summertime and we’ll continue to talk about it until it changes.”

The Pistons have had a losing record in 13 of their last 15 seasons.

Aaron Gordon and the Denver Nuggets are engaged in contract extension talks ahead of the start of the 24-25 season. Gordon revealed at media day that he would like to sign an extension. Gordon has a player option for the 25-26 season.

“From what I understand, they are negotiating with Aaron Gordon,” said Brian Windhorst on Friday’s episode of The Hoop Collective. “Aaron Gordon was eligible for a four-year, $150 million-ish contract extension. They haven’t handed out that offer, otherwise he would have signed it. From what I understand, they are negotiating and they’re hopeful of getting him at less than what would be his quote, unquote max.

“We’ll see if that get that done, but I think they’re trying to do a negotiation there.”

The Nuggets acquired Gordon ahead of the 2021 trade deadline and then signed an extension in September worth $92 million over four seasons.

Denver recently signed Jamal Murray to a four-year, $207.8 million max extension.