Karl-Anthony Towns, Miles McBride and Josh Hart are all eligible for extensions but Stefan Bondy of the New York Post (subscription required) doubts any of those prominent Knicks will sign one before the start of the season.

Towns is eligible to sign a four-year max extension worth $272MM but that would create major salary-cap issues. He would have to accept a discount in the $180MM range for the front office to consider going that route. Signing McBride to an extension would take away arguably the team’s most expendable trade asset, while Hart is still under team control for two more years, including a team option for the 2027/28 season.

Here’s more from the Eastern Conference:

• In the same story, Bondy noted that the coaching staff is relatively stable, with the exception of losing assistant Jordan Brink to the Bulls. Bondy hears that Brink felt the Bulls offer was too good to pass up. Brink is also focused on eventually becoming a head coach, and Chicago offers a clearer path to that goal than the Knicks. In the front office, Gersson Rosas, the senior VP of basketball operations for the last three seasons, was not retained. His contract expired and Rosas was both eager for another opportunity and not really offered a chance to come back, according to Bondy.
• The Pacers will start the season with 14 players signed to standard contracts, one short of the maximum, Tony East of CircleCitySpin.com predicts. They’ll be able to add a 15th player on a veteran’s minimum deal starting in early November if they need more depth but due to their hard cap status, they’ll probably wait longer than that to fill it. East also details how they decided to give their two-way deals to Kobe Brown, Jalen Slawson and rookie Braden Smith.
• The Bucks engaged in some team bonding this week, as they held a players minicamp in Texas, according to JR Radcliffe of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Nearly all members of the current roster attended the event, which was apparently organized by Myles Turner.