{"id":318733,"date":"2025-11-30T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318733\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:41:22","slug":"lakers-to-play-spurs-in-nba-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318733\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers to play Spurs in NBA Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After clinching their group on Tuesday with a win over the Clippers and finishing unbeaten in group play on Friday against the Mavs, the Lakers will host their quarterfinal matchup against the Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The game is set for Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 7:00 p.m. PT. The Thunder and Suns meet in the first NBA Cup game in the Western Conference earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Lakers and Spurs met once earlier this season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscreenandroll.com\/lakers-scores-results\/99600\/lakers-vs-spurs-recap-box-score-stats-final-luka-doncic-deandre-ayton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with LA grinding out a win<\/a>. This meeting means the two sides will play four times in total this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">San Antonio is currently dealing with some injury issues to their stars. Victor Wembanyama is not playing with the team on their current road trip as he recovers from a calf strain. According <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1990536551726768337?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">to Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a>, he was set to miss \u201ca few weeks\u201d dating back to Nov. 17, so it\u2019s fair to assume he would be back for the game against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stephon Castle is also sidelined right now as he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/spurs-stephon-castle-hip-flexor-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled out for two to three weeks<\/a> with a hip flexor strain on Nov. 18. A return after three weeks would have him back roughly on Dec. 9, just before the game against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lastly, Dylan Harper only recently returned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47111150\/spurs-dylan-harper-calf-expects-play-vs-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after missing 10 games with a calf injury<\/a>. Having said all that, though, the depleted Spurs went into Denver and beat the Nuggets on Friday, led by Devin Vassell\u2019s 35 points. De\u2019Aaron Fox, who did not play against the Lakers earlier this season, has returned and is 25 points per game on 50% shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The winner of this game will advance to the semi-finals to meet the winner of the Thunder and Suns in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After clinching their group on Tuesday with a win over the Clippers and finishing unbeaten in group play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,38926,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-318733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-lakers-news","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318733","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=318733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}