{"id":337325,"date":"2025-12-08T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337325\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:31:07","slug":"nba-cups-format-shift-puts-las-vegas-hosting-future-in-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/337325\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup\u2019s format shift puts Las Vegas\u2019 hosting future in question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The return of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/12\/12\/nba-cup-preview-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/12\/12\/nba-cup-preview-las-vegas\/\">NBA Cup<\/a> finale to Las Vegas following its format change starting next season is \u201cunclear,\u201d according to Mick Akers of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL. This year, with semifinals games beginning Saturday, will mark the third straight year Las Vegas will host the annual in-season tournament semifinals and final. Next year, the NBA Cup format is changing with only the championship game to be held on a neutral site. Whether that site continues to be Las Vegas \u201cremains to be seen.\u201d NBA EVP\/Global Events Kelly Flatow said, \u201cCertainly our long-term plans, we\u2019re fortunate to have several destinations that are interested in hosting the NBA Cup and we\u2019re going to remain open to exploring all those opportunities in collaboration with our partners at Prime Video.\u201d Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority revealed that the 2024 NBA Cup games \u201cgenerated 19,000 incremental room nights.\u201d The LVCVA in September approved a $1M sponsorship to host this year\u2019s NBA Cup finale. Akers noted the NBA is \u201coffering more experience-based ticket packages\u201d to fans this season, \u201clooking to capitalize on everything Las Vegas has to offer as a destination city\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/sports\/basketball\/nba-cup-finale-returns-to-las-vegas-but-will-it-be-last-held-on-strip-3592027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 12\/7<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of the NBA Cup finale to Las Vegas following its format change starting next season is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-337325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337325","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=337325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}