The Washington Wizards can officially present a four-year, $181.5 million extension to Bradley Beal on Friday.

Beal previously signed a two-year, $72 million in October 2019.

Tommy Sheppard said in an interview earlier this month the team plans to offer the extension “at dawn.”

Beal, however, will take slightly more time to decide. 

“My biggest thing is getting us off going to a good start,” Beal said Monday, after noting the deal is for Sheppard, team owner Ted Leonsis and his agent Mark Bartelstein to figure out. “We worry about the contract money and all that later. I’ll let them deal with it when the time comes, for sure. I got all year to sign, too. So I’m not in a rush.”

Beal could stand to earn roughly $50 million more if he waits and chooses to become a free agent in 2022. Beal will by then have reached 10 years of service in the NBA and be eligible for a contract worth 35 percent of the salary cap.

The Detroit Pistons have waived Deividas Sirvydis.

The Pistons have also signed Jared Cunningham to their training camp roster.

The Milwaukee Bucks have signed Elijah Bryant to a camp deal.

The Bucks waived Bryant last week.

Bryant appeared in one game with the Bucks last season.

James Harden explained why he's taking his time on making a decision on whether he will sign a contract extension with the Brooklyn Nets before the season starts. 

"You know, I think over the course of my career I've never been a free agent before, so I've always just been loyal and just signed it, you know, the contract extension," said Harden to Malika Andrews. "Just being there, being there, being there. I just want to take my time with it. It would be very, very difficult to leave here, or to even leave Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving.

"But I think this season I just want to focus on winning the championship and everything else will work itself out.”

Harden also told the YES Network this week that he doesn't see himself anywhere else.

Harden previously turned down a two-year, $103 million extension with the Houston Rockets prior to his trade during the 20-21 season.

Harden could sign a three-year, $161.1 million extension on top of his 22-23 season, or also sign a five-year, $235 million deal during the 2022 offseason.

There project to be very few teams with cap space in 2022 and none currently enough to sign Harden to his current number.

Sean Marks previously indicated he was hopeful Brooklyn would sign both Harden and Kyrie Irving to extensions before the start of camp. 

The Utah Jazz have signed forwards Marques Bolden and Malik Fitts. 

Bolden (6-10, 249, Duke) has played in seven games with the Cleveland Cavaliers over two seasons (2019-21) during his professional career. Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Duke, appearing in 88 games (24 starts), averaging 3.8 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 13.6 minutes per game. In his final season at Duke in 2018-19, he averaged 5.3 points, 4.5 boards and 1.7 blocks in 19.0 minutes per game.

Fitts (6-8, 230, St. Mary’s) played in three NBA games with the Los Angeles Clippers during the 2020-21 season and also appeared in 14 games (six starts) with the Agua Caliente Clippers of the NBA G League, averaging 11.1 points, 4.0 boards and 1.5 assists. Collegiately, Fitts spent two seasons at St. Mary’s (2018-20), where he averaged 15.9 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.3 steals in 68 career games (66 starts). At St. Mary’s, he earned 2019-20 All-WCC First Team and 2018-19 All-WCC Second Team honors. Fitts began his collegiate career playing one season at South Florida.

Trevelin Queen has signed a partially guaranteed camp deal with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Queen averaged 13.2 points on 54 percent shooting from three for the Lakers in Summer League.

Queen went undrafted in 2020 out of New Mexico State and played for the Rio Grand Valley Vipers last season in the G League. 

Deandre Ayton is optimistic he will sign a contract extension with the Phoenix Suns.

Ayton is eligible for the five-year, $172 million rookie max extension.

"Honestly, I'm expecting something to get done so that we as a team can finish what we started, which is bring a championship to Phoenix," Ayton said Monday to The Republic during Suns media day. "Period. Literally. That's all it is." 

Ayton emerged as one of the NBA's best young centers during the 20-21 season.

Johnny O'Bryant has agreed to sign a camp deal with the Milwaukee Bucks.

O'Bryant spent two of his four seasons with the Bucks and is returning to compete for a roster spot. O'Bryant last played in the NBA during the 17-18 season.

O'Bryant played for Turk Telekom and KK Crvena Zvezda last season.

Kawhi Leonard revealed that part of the reason why he signed a four-year max contract with the Los Angeles Clippers this offseason is because he hopes to return at some point this season. Leonard underwent surgery on July 13th to repair a partially torn right ACL.

"Because I wanted to play," Leonard explained of his decision at the team's media day on Monday. "I mean, the best situation for me was to do it one-and-one and then opt out and sign a long-term five-year deal. But there's a lot of concerns that that brings up for you guys and your job, and it creates storylines that I'm going to leave the team [after one year].

"I wanted to secure some money, and I wanted to be able to come back if I was able to this year. If I would have took the one-and-one, I probably would have not played [this season] just to be cautious and opted out and took a five-year."

Lawrence Frank said last week that "we don't even breach that" when asked if he anticipates Leonard being able to play this season.

"It's just, no one knows when you're dealing with a recovery from an ACL [injury], the time frame," Frank said.

As a free agent, Leonard could have signed a two-year, $82 million deal with a player option in 2022-23 and become a free agent again in 2022, which would have made him eligible to sign a five-year, $235 million max contract with the Clippers.

Leonard said staying with the Clippers was never in doubt and now the question is when he can return.

"Just day-to-day," Leonard said. "Just working with the staff day-to-day, and then when that available date comes, we'll be ready for it, and it'll be out in the public."

Michael Porter Jr. has agreed to a five-year max extension with the Denver Nuggets that could be worth up to $207 million.

Porter's deal will be worth $172 million unless he reached the designated max criteria as an All-NBA team selection.

The Nuggets now have three players on max contracts in Porter, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.

According to Michael Singer of the Denver Post, the final season of the contract is partially guaranteed and he has no player options.