Key Points
- Sotheby's will auction OG Anunoby's Game 4 game-winning tip-in ball starting June 30.
- It's listed as "The Hand of OG," from the Knicks' 107-106 win over the Spurs.
- Analyst Darren Rovell projects the ball could fetch up to $3 million.
- It headlines a larger sale of Knicks championship memorabilia.
The single most valuable object from the Knicks' first title in 53 years is going to auction. Sotheby's will begin selling the basketball from OG Anunoby's game-winning tip-in in Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals on June 30, listing it under the title "The Hand of OG."
The moment it captures
The ball is the artifact of the largest comeback in Finals history. Down by 29 in the third quarter of Game 4 at Madison Square Garden, the Knicks clawed all the way back; in the closing seconds Jalen Brunson launched a contested miss and Anunoby tipped it home for a 107-106 win. New York went on to close out the series and end a championship drought stretching back to 1973. A single tip-in, frozen as a collectible.
What it might bring
Sotheby's has not attached a public estimate, but longtime sports-business analyst Darren Rovell projected the ball could reach as much as $3 million when bidding opens. It anchors a broader sale of Finals memorabilia — game-worn jerseys, nets, and other pieces from the Knicks' run, the same series defined by that 29-point Game 4 comeback. The sale has not been frictionless: some players have voiced frustration with the league auctioning game-used balls, a reminder that the memorabilia economy and the athletes who generate it do not always agree on who should profit.
Update (July 9): The sale delivered a record — Jalen Brunson's game-worn Game 1 jersey sold for $1.02 million, the most ever paid for a Knicks collectible.
Sports and music memorabilia kept trading hands into the summer: in late July, Eminem auctioned 117 hand-signed sneakers through Julien's Auctions for the Marshall Mathers Foundation.
The game-used market set another mark in August, when Shohei Ohtani's Tokyo Series cleats sold for $440,055, the most ever paid for baseball footwear.
Source: Yahoo Sports, Bleacher Report.
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