Players who are in the fourth and final year of their rookie scale contracts became eligible to sign rookie scale extensions starting on July 1. Those players, who were all 2023 first-round selections, will have until the day before the 2026/27 regular season starts to finalize long-term agreements with their current teams.

Players eligible for rookie scale extensions can sign new deals that run for up to five years, with those contracts taking effect beginning in 2027/28. If they don’t sign extensions during the 2026 offseason, those players will be eligible for restricted free agency in the summer of 2027.

To this point in the offseason, we’ve only seen one rookie scale extension: Spurs star Victor Wembanyama signed a five-year, maximum-salary deal, including a fifth-year player option. That extension will start at 25% of the 2027/28 salary cap, with a projected value of $252.3MM over five years.

Wembanyama was the first player to sign a rookie scale extension in the 2026 offseason, but we should see several more agreements reached before the deadline expires at the end of the night on October 19. At least nine players have signed rookie scale extensions each of the past seven offseasons, including a record-setting 14 in 2023.

Here are the other 22 players eligible for rookie scale extensions this offseason:

*Note: Dick is currently still on Toronto’s roster, but he’ll be traded to the Clippers if the Kawhi Leonard deal is eventually finalized. That trade agreement is on hold for now as the NBA continues to investigate allegations that the Clippers circumvented the salary cap to pay Leonard through no-show endorsement deals.

The following players were selected in the first round of the 2023 draft along with the players listed above. However, they aren’t eligible for rookie scale extensions this year for the reasons noted: