Every Oct. 31 serves up the sweetness of numerous regular-season openers to ingest along with a helping of deadline drama on contract extensions for former first-round picks entering their fourth season -- provided there's no lockout in effect.
To wit: Halloween 2012 delivers a nine-game slate and a last chance for 20 draftees from the NBA's class of 2009 to score new deals to join the only two extension recipients since July 1: the Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin and Oklahoma City's Serge Ibaka (who actually was drafted in 2008 but gets lumped in with this group because he didn't have an NBA contract until the 2009-10 season).
Will the Thunder pay the big bucks for James Harden? That's one big story to follow before Halloween.
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