Many NBA contracts have explicit incentive clauses that stipulate increased pay if certain performance criteria are met. You know, if “Player X grabs X amount of rebounds” or “Player Y plays in X amount of games” they get a bonus. Well, Dave D’Alessandro of The Star-Ledger combed through some current NBA contracts and found a few of the most unique/ridiculous performance-based incentives out there. Some oddball favorites:

* Adonal Foyle gets $500,000 if he wins MVP, and another $500K if he wins MVP of the NBA Finals.

* Luke Ridnour gets an extra $1.5 million for winning Defensive Player of the Year.

* Mario Chalmers gets $19,580 just for showing up for summer league, and for going through a team “skill/conditioning program.”

* Rafer Alston gets an additional $325,000 if he makes the All-Star team.

* Matt Bonner gets $100,000 if the sum of his field goal percentage, free throw percentage, and his 3-point percentage matches or exceeds 169 percent. Seriously.

D’Alessandro has more, but none of them come close to this strange small print once written up by the Oakland Athletics:

“In 1972 owner Charlie Finley offered his players $300 if they’d grow mustaches as part of a Father’s Day promotion. All 25 did, and the ’staches became a team trademark. Rollie Fingers even had a clause written into his contract that he would be supplied with wax for his handlebars.”

Paging Adam Morrison’s agent …

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