As Brandon Miller and the Hornets attempt to negotiate a rookie scale extension, the contracts signed in recent years by Franz Wagner (five years, $224MM), OG Anunoby (five years, $212.5MM), and Amen Thompson (five years, $208MM) with their respective teams are among the potential comparables that Miller’s camp has discussed, writes Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints.

Siegel, who makes predictions within his story about whether or not certain rookie scale extension candidates will receive new contracts before the October 19 deadline, believes Miller has a strong chance to land a deal with an overall value exceeding $200MM and considers him the best bet of the remaining extension-eligible players to sign within the next couple weeks.

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Here are a few more notes and rumors related to players who are eligible to sign rookie scale or veteran extensions:

• One league source who spoke to Siegel said that if Thunder guard Cason Wallace were to reach restricted free agency, there would be multiple teams willing to offer him $30MM per year or more. Siegel views Wallace’s probable salary range on an extension as somewhere between the $25MM per year that Dyson Daniels is earning on his second NBA contract and the $31MM per year that Ausar Thompson will make on his newly signed deal with Detroit.
• ESPN’s Ben Golliver, Zach Kram, and Bobby Marks breaks down Karl-Anthony Towns’ extension options with the Knicks and consider what a new deal might realistically look like. In Marks’ view, Towns’ best path might be to pick up his $61MM player option for 2027/28, then negotiate an extension beginning in ’28/29 that has a lower average annual value — Marks suggests a four-year, $180MM deal could make sense, given that it could start as low as $40MM, allowing New York to stay out of second-apron territory even after a new Jalen Brunson contract takes effect.
• Exploring whether Anthony Davis has a future in Washington beyond the coming season, David Aldridge and Josh Robbins of The Athletic acknowledge that the big man is known to be seeking a max or near-max contract extension, which the Wizards are unlikely to offer. However, as Aldridge and Robbins point out, given Davis’ age (33) and injury history, agent Rich Paul may find that there aren’t any other teams out there willing to make that sort of commitment. If that’s the case, it would increase the odds of Davis and the Wizards being able to reach a compromise on a deal below the max.