Matt Bonner's Bonus

[Solid D]

Bonner was 17-for-23 at the line last year. If he would have gone 18-for-23, he would have earned the $100K.

Ouch.

Don Harris ran this on his 10:22 PM sportscast last night, LJ. Same calculation percentages and everything.

[timvp]

Don Harris ran this on his 10:22 PM sportscast last night, LJ. Same calculation percentages and everything.

Gotta love D-Ha.

[Das Texan]

Don Harris ran this on his 10:22 PM sportscast last night, LJ. Same calculation percentages and everything.

where do you think he got it.

[duncan228]

Ouch! Missed free throw costs San Antonio Spur $100,000
Don Harris

SAN ANTONIO -- Basketball players and fans know a missed free throw can cost you the game. But what if missing one ended up costing you $100,000?

The Spurs' Matt Bonner was recently the focus of an article on unique contracts. A NBA writer did a story on some of the more oddball incentive clauses in the league, and Bonner reportedly has one of them.

According to Dave D'Alessandro of the N.J. Star-Ledger, "Matt Bonner of the Spurs gets $100,000 if the sum of his field goal percentage, free throw percentage, and his 3-point percentage matches or exceeds 169 percent."

But the story gets better. News 4 WOAI did the math. Bonner shot 49.6% from the field, 44% from 3-point land and 73.9% from the free-throw line. The magic number 169. He fell short at 167.5%.

But had Bonner made just one more free throw, 18 of 23 instead of 17 of 23, the total would have been 171.8. And if his contract has that clause, he would have made an extra $100,000.

And you think you want the Spurs to shoot better from the line - WOW!

[Solid D]

Pop must have seen the bottom of a few wine bottles before coming up with that bonus.

For those of you scoring at home, Bonner did NOT earn that bonus this past season. 49.6% + 44% + 73.9% = 167.5%

That was a costly poor free throw shooting year for Bonner, who came into the season shooting better than 80% at the line. Seriously though, I'm not sure it's that smart of an idea to put even more pressure on Bonner to knock down shots . . .

Ouch! Missed free throw costs San Antonio Spur $100,000
Don Harris

SAN ANTONIO -- Basketball players and fans know a missed free throw can cost you the game. But what if missing one ended up costing you $100,000?

The Spurs' Matt Bonner was recently the focus of an article on unique contracts. A NBA writer did a story on some of the more oddball incentive clauses in the league, and Bonner reportedly has one of them.

According to Dave D'Alessandro of the N.J. Star-Ledger, "Matt Bonner of the Spurs gets $100,000 if the sum of his field goal percentage, free throw percentage, and his 3-point percentage matches or exceeds 169 percent."

But the story gets better. News 4 WOAI did the math. Bonner shot 49.6% from the field, 44% from 3-point land and 73.9% from the free-throw line. The magic number 169. He fell short at 167.5%.

But had Bonner made just one more free throw, 18 of 23 instead of 17 of 23, the total would have been 171.8. And if his contract has that clause, he would have made an extra $100,000.

And you think you want the Spurs to shoot better from the line - WOW!

This is basically word-for-word what Don read or said last night in his sportscast. WOAI even showed a text-only graphic when Don said "WOAI did the math" that looked something like this:

FG% - 49.6%
3PT% + 44.0%
FT% + 73.9%
---------------
.......= 167.5%

It's all good, Don.

[DMX7]

OMG, 1 freethrow cost him $100,000.

Someone said it before, but that "IS some serious CIA Pop ".

[Marcus Bryant]

Here's to the News 4 WOAI mathematics department and the Express-News editorial research team.

[MannyIsGod]

Wow what heads.

[tp2021]

Don: , these assholes think they know everything!

McD: Don't get me started. I gave up trying to please them a while ago.

Don: They couldn't do our job! It's hard to come up with creative to talk about!

Mike: Shut up you two, timvp just posted a new thread! Get to work!