the Knicks toppled the Heat 132-125.<\/a> \u201cSome of those people don\u2019t get a bonus and they\u2019re working to make sure we\u2019re at the top of the game, no matter who they are. We want to make sure those people are also compensated for their extra time and their efforts.\u201d<\/p>\nHart mentioned the massage therapists and PR staff members as recipients of the unexpected NBA Cup bonus: \u201cWe\u2019re compiling that list together now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karl-Anthony Towns ($53 million salary), OG Anunoby ($39.6 million), Brunson ($34.9 million), Mikal Bridges ($24.9 million) and Hart ($19.5 million) own the top five salaries on the Knicks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something we talked about before (giving NBA Cup prize money to support staffers). Me and [Brunson] talked about it at one point,\u201d Hart said. \u201cAnd we were like, \u2018Yeah, we\u2019ll figure it out.\u2019 Like I said, we want to make sure we take care of everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Towns managed just two points in 29 minutes Sunday, representing just the second time in his career \u2014 and the first since 2017 \u2014 that he scored fewer than six in a game.<\/p>\n
Still, the Knicks won behind a season-high 47 points from the other All-Star \u2014 Brunson \u2014 who recorded his career-best at MSG.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOf course anytime you can win a game it\u2019s a luxury,\u201d said Towns, who shot just 1 of 5. \u201cThis is awesome to be able to win a game like this. I feel what\u2019s great about our team is that we\u2019ve shown y\u2019all we can win so many different ways. I think that\u2019s going to prove well for us when we\u2019re in the playoffs and we\u2019re in those games in the regular season when we don\u2019t know how we\u2019re going to win but we\u2019ll make sure it works out for us in the end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Hart and some of his well-compensated teammates spread their NBA Cup love. The veteran guard confirmed Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,27805,459,2901,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-361220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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OG Anunoby (center, L) and Karl-Anthony Towns lift the trophy after the team defeated the San Antonio Spurs 124-113 to win the championship game of the Emirates NBA Cup. Getty Images<\/p>\n