{"id":136579,"date":"2025-09-12T01:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:48:13","slug":"and-ones-nba-cup-rule-changes-europe-mitrou-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136579\/","title":{"rendered":"And-Ones: NBA Cup, Rule Changes, Europe, Mitrou-Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting in 2026\/27, the semifinals of the NBA Cup (in-season tournament) will be played in teams\u2019 home markets, with the higher seeds hosting those games at their own arenas, the league announced this week in a press release (Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In the first two iterations of the NBA Cup, the semifinals and final have both taken place in Las Vegas \u2014 that will happen again this winter, but beginning next year, only the championship game will be played at a neutral site.<\/p>\n

Within the same release, the NBA also announced a minor tweak to coach\u2019s challenge rules. Going forward, when an out-of-bounds violation is reviewed, it will be up to the replay center \u2013 rather than the crew chief of the game\u2019s on-court officiating crew \u2013 to determine whether a foul should have been called on the play.<\/p>\n

We have more odds and ends from around the basketball world:<\/p>\n

Beginning this fall, unsuccessful heaves at the end of quarters will be recorded as missed field goal attempts by the team rather than the player, sources tell Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link<\/a>). The NBA tested the change at the Las Vegas Summer League earlier this year in an effort to ensure players are more willing to throw up buzzer-beaters at the end of periods without worrying about misses affecting their shooting percentages.
\nFormer NBA star Tony Parker, who is a EuroLeague shareholder as the owner of the French team ASVEL Basket, continues to advocate for collaboration between the NBA and the EuroLeague as the NBA looks into starting its own European league, as Aris Barkas of Eurohoops<\/a> relays (via China Daily<\/a>). \u201cIf the EuroLeague, the NBA, and FIBA can find a way to work together to build a strong league. That will be amazing for European basketball,\u201d Parker said during a promotional visit to Chengdu. \u201c\u2026 For me, as an owner of a French club, having an agreement between the three is the key to the success of European basketball.\u201d
\nFormer NBA guard Naz Mitrou-Long<\/a> has officially signed with Napoli Basket for the 2025\/26 season, the team announced in a press release<\/a>. Mitrou-Long, who appeared in 20 NBA regular season games for Utah and Indiana from 2017-20 has bounced around Europe in recent years, playing for multiple teams (including Olimpia Milano) in Italy, Zalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania, and Olympiacos in Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting in 2026\/27, the semifinals of the NBA Cup (in-season tournament) will be played in teams\u2019 home markets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,94048,590,85,66261],"class_list":{"0":"post-136579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-naz-mitrou-long","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tony-parker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}