{"id":67161,"date":"2025-08-13T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67161\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:57:07","slug":"raptors-announce-nba-cup-schedule-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67161\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors announce NBA Cup schedule for next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> have released some dates for fans to circle on their calendars if they&#8217;re on the lookout for high-stakes early-season basketball. <\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the third edition of the Emirates NBA Cup, the league&#8217;s in-season tournament, was revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This iteration of the tourney has the Raptors joining the Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers, Atlanta Hawks and Washington Wizards in Group A of the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough slate for Toronto, which will begin its NBA Cup campaign on the road against the East&#8217;s No. 1 seed, the Cavaliers, on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors will then visit the Hawks on Nov. 7, followed by a home game against the Wizards on Nov. 21. They&#8217;ll close out the group stage with a home game against the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers on Nov. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Eight teams \u2014 six group winners and two wild-card teams \u2014 will advance to the knockout stage, with the quarterfinals scheduled for Dec. 9 and 10, the semifinals set for Dec. 13 and the championship game on Dec. 16. The last two rounds will be played in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Since the tournament\u2019s inception in 2023, the Raptors are 2-6 and have never advanced beyond group play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors have released some dates for fans to circle on their calendars if they&#8217;re on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-67161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}