Earlier this offseason, All-Star point guard Kyle Lowry made the decision to re-sign with the Toronto Raptors on a three-year, $100 million deal.
Details of his new contract were released as Sportsnet is reporting that it includes $2 million in incentives if he meets a few huge team and individual benchmarks.
Among those players is Kyle Lowry, who signed a new three-year, $100 million deal that will pay him an average of $33.3 million per year. Given those lofty numbers, Lowry’s contract bonus may seem like peanuts, but there is $2 million in incentives built into his new deal.
Lowry will earn a $200,000 bonus for each of the following:
*All-star appearance
*All-NBA team appearance
*All-Defensive team appearance
*Raptors reach conference finals
*Raptors reach NBA Finals
*Raptors win NBA championship.
On top of that, Lowry has another mark he must reach for the All-Star game incentive to be met as he would have to appear in 65 games while playing more than 25 minutes per game. Last season, he played in just 60 games due to a wrist injury that forced him to be sidelined for nearly two months. Along with that, the same minute workload and games appearance threshold must be met for each of the other bonuses as well.
Lowry is coming off his most productive individual campaign where he averaged career highs with 22.4 points on 46.4 percent shooting from the field and 41.2 percent from beyond the arc with 7.0 assists and 4.8 rebounds in 37.4 minutes per game that helped him earn his third straight All-Star game nod.
If he can remain healthy, there is no reason to believe he won't at least earn the bonus for the All-Star Game selection and could potentially garner an All-NBA Team nod.
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