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Tyrone Hill, the Philadelphia 76ers’ starting power forward, paid the Toronto Raptors’ Charles Oakley money he owed him from a dice game last summer, a 76ers team source told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hill went to Toronto’s team hotel Tuesday to meet Oakley after the Raptors arrived in Philadelphia.

Oakley would not confirm that he was paid the remainder of the debt, about $54,000.

“Everything in life is double,” Oakley said before Wednesday’s Game 5 between the teams. “If he didn’t pay me $108,000, he didn’t pay me.”

Oakley was suspended for one game without pay and fined $10,000 for hitting Hill in the head with a basketball after a morning shootaround in Toronto before a game April 3.