{"id":324230,"date":"2025-12-01T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324230\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:53:07","slug":"preview-teams-schedule-and-how-to-watch-the-action-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324230\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview, teams, schedule and how to watch the action live"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA Cup 2025 quarter-finals are officially here.<\/p>\n

Eight basketball<\/a> teams have arrived at the\u00a0in-season tournament’s\u00a0knockout stage, with six advancing as group winners and two coming as conference wild cards.<\/p>\n

In the West, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>‘s Oklahoma City Thunder clinched their spot in the quarters after finishing top of Group A with a 4-0 record.<\/p>\n

It was another impressive milestone in\u00a0what has been a hot start to the season for the NBA reigning champions. And they\u00a0seem unlikely to stop there with a match-up against the West’s wild card, the Phoenix Suns, up next in Cup proceedings.<\/p>\n

Also finishing 4-0 in the West was the Los Angeles Lakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/a> tucked away 35 points and 11 assists in the final group game against the Dallas Mavericks to help the 2023 champions finish perfect and set up a quarter-final meeting against familiar rivals, the San Antonio Spurs, who held off the Denver Nuggets to finish atop Group C.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whatever happens between now and the NBA Cup championship decider on 16 December, there will be a new title holder,\u00a0 with last year’s winners, the Milwaukee Bucks, now out of contention.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the return of Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> from a four-game injury absence, they were eliminated by the New York Knicks, who advance as the East’s Group C winner, with a 3-1 record.\u00a0They will match up against\u00a0the Toronto Raptors, who, along with the Orlando Magic, finished 4-0 in the other two groups in\u00a0the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

All games from the NBA Cup from now on are single-elimination and will continue to count towards teams’ regular season games, with the notable exception of the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Find out more about the knockout stages and where you can watch the action, below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA Cup 2025 quarter-finals are officially here. Eight basketball teams have arrived at the\u00a0in-season tournament’s\u00a0knockout stage, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-324230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}