Prize money has risen each season for the Cup, with total winnings for champion players reaching $530,000 this year.

Knicks small forward OG Anunoby is ready for a rematch against Desmond Bane and the Orlando Magic in the NBA Cup.

The NBA has issued a $35,000 fine to Orlando Magic guard Desmond Bane for forcefully throwing the ball at an opponent “in an unsportsmanlike manner.”

Nearly a week and $35,000 later, Desmond Bane has told his side of his New York Knicks story. The Orlando Magic guard became the latest entry to the Knicks rogues gallery after he forcibly flung the ball at New Yorker OG Anunoby during a Sunday showing at Madison Square Garden.

Luckily for Bane, the Magic are still alive in the NBA Cup which nets a considerable cash prize for the eventual winner. He remembered that following the big night Tuesday, after the Magic defeated the Heat 117–108.

The Orlando guard was dinged for “throwing the game ball with force at an opponent in an unsportsmanlike manner,” the NBA said in a release on Monday.

The NBA fined Desmond Bane $35,000 for firing the ball at OG Anunoby during the Orlando Magic’s 106-100 loss to the New York Knicks on Sunday.

The first round of the NBA Cup started off with the Orlando Magic getting a win over the Miami Heat and moving on to the Eastern Conference semifinals where the

Recently, Orlando Magic guard Desmond Bane was fined $35000 by the NBA for throwing the ball off of New York Knicks forward OG Anunoby during a recent matchup between the two teams. It was the second time this year that Bane had inexplicably launched the ball off of an opponent, and it also earned him a technical foul in the process.