The trail to in-season glory has been paved with the matchups and teams revealed for the 2025 NBA Cup. The championship is scheduled for Dec. 16.
Basketball is getting a head begin on its vacation touring: the NBA launched the teams, matchups, and knockout spherical schedule for the third version of its in-season event referred to as the NBA Cup on Wednesday.
View the complete 2025 NBA Cup teams under …
Japanese Convention
Group A
Group B
Group C
Atlanta
Boston
Charlotte
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Chicago
Indiana
Detroit
Miami
Toronto
Orlando
Milwaukee
Washington
Philadelphia
New York
Western Convention
Group A
Group B
Group C
Minnesota
Dallas
Denver
Oklahoma Metropolis
LA Clippers
Golden State
Phoenix
LA Lakers
Houston
Sacramento
Memphis
Portland
Utah
New Orleans
San Antonio
Group play will start on Halloween (Oct. 31) and run via Black Friday (Nov. 28). Quarterfinals shall be staged on the house of upper seeds on Dec. 9 and 10 earlier than the Dec. 13 semifinals and the Dec. 16 championship recreation transfer the motion to Las Vegas.
The knockout spherical will invite the six group winners and the highest ending runner-up in every convention for an opportunity to go to Sin Metropolis. Tiebreakers for the wild card will as soon as once more be settled via level differential.
The largest change on the 2025 NBA Cup docket lies in its nationwide tv duties: new NBA tv associate Amazon Prime Video will stream your entire knockout spherical, taking up from ESPN and the departed TNT.
The teams are set for the Emirates NBA Cup 2025.
All 30 NBA groups have been randomly drawn into teams of 5 inside their convention primarily based on win-loss data from the 2024-25 common season.
The teams can be found under. pic.twitter.com/ZZVUwtp3fO
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) July 9, 2025
This would be the third version of the NBA Cup, which is able to proceed to hold sponsorship from Dubai-based airline Emirates. The Milwaukee Bucks, stationed in East Group C, are the defending champions of the occasion, having defeated the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder in final yr’s closing at T-Cell Enviornment.
Milwaukee and the New York Knicks are the one two groups to succeed in the knockout spherical in every of the primary two editions of the competitors. Each are stationed in East Group C, which additionally stars Charlotte, Chicago, and Miami.
Impressed by worldwide soccer competitions, the NBA Cup was created so as to add that means to the Affiliation’s early season video games, which face heavy competitors from NFL soccer broadcasts. The Los Angeles Lakers have been the inaugural winners of the occasion in 2023 and an imitator has risen on the racetrack, as NASCAR has debuted the “In-Season Problem” in its premier Cup Collection.
Geoff Magliocchetti is on X @GeoffJMags
