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Everyone that follows basketball knows that one of the most trivial but also the most important things about playing is making your free throws. Even great professional athletes sometimes make only 60% of these shots.

The San Antonio Spurs Matt Bonner, AKA “The Red Rocket”  has a special arrangement on his contract that gives him a special incentive to shoot well.

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.