Maurice Harkless, New York Knicks (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
New York Knicks forward Maurice Harkless loses out from premature ending to season.
The NBA plans to ratify a 22-team return-to-play proposal on Thursday which will leave the New York Knicks at home, ending their 2019-20 season after 66 games. Perhaps nobody is impacted by this decision more than recent-acquisition Maurice Harkless, who has a $500,000 incentive to shoot better than 35% from downtown, a mark he will now narrowly miss.
According to Bobby Marks of ESPN, the league will update/pro-rate bonuses to reflect eight additional regular season games, which will likely leave players on performance bonuses that are not based on the number of games played losing out.