NBA · Orlando Magic · Updated Oct 20, 2026
Desmond Bane First Basket Stats
How often Desmond Bane scores the game's first basket for the Orlando Magic, and how that compares with teammates. Built from every tracked NBA game.
- Desmond Bane has scored the game's first basket in 9 of 82 starts: 11% of the time.
- That is 19.1% of the first baskets the Orlando Magic have scored.
- The Orlando Magic score the first basket 57.3% of the time and win the opening tip 73.2% (82 games).
| Player | First baskets | Starts | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendell Carter Jr.C | 12 | 78 | 15.4% |
| Jalen SuggsG | 9 | 56 | 16.1% |
| Desmond BaneG | 9 | 82 | 11% |
| Paolo BancheroF | 8 | 72 | 11.1% |
| Franz WagnerF | 4 | 32 | 12.5% |
More first basket stats
- Orlando Magic first basket stats: the team's tip-off and scores-first rates, and its position split
- Desmond Bane in FirstIQ: the full profile, game by game
- NBA first basket stats by player: every player, ranked
- How to bet first basket: the tip, the team and the player, step by step
- First basket picks today: the model's pick for every game today, one of them free
Desmond Bane first basket questions
Desmond Bane has scored the game's first basket in 9 of 82 starts tracked, a rate of 11%.
Wendell Carter Jr. (12 first baskets in 78 starts), Jalen Suggs (9 first baskets in 56 starts), Paolo Banchero (8 first baskets in 72 starts). The table on this page has each of them.
From every tracked game: the game's first scoring play, made free throws included, the team that won the opening tip, and which side was at home. A game the tip winner or the home side was not recorded for is left out of that one figure, and each figure says how many games it is out of.
The stats are rebuilt as games are played; the date at the top is when this page was last updated.
On the first basket picks page: the model's pick for every game today, one of them free, with every finished game graded.