Phoenix can’t afford to mess around with Ayton’s contract

A handful of members of the 2018 Draft class have inked lucrative extensions. But with the calendar turning to October, one of its biggest names had yet to lock in a deal of his own: №1 overall pick Deandre Ayton.

We’ve all assumed a deal would get done before the Oct. 18 deadline. That is, until this morning when ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that contract…