Unironically friendly basketball matches can end up in a tie, no matter how counter-intuitive it may sound.
By rule, a basketball match can never end in a tie...but in friendly matches, both teams/coaches can mutually agree not to play overtime if the score is tied at the end of the fourth quarter...reasons being injured players/fatigue/schedule, etc. I've seen it happen many times before. Here are a few examples from just this week:
Some of those friendly matches can't be even called friendlies, rather sparring matches...they remind me of those joint practices NFL teams have in preseason.