The NBA Cup semifinals will not be performed in Las Vegas starting within the 2026-27 season.
In the course of the board of governors assembly on Wednesday, the league introduced the semifinals for the NBA Cup shall be performed at group arenas. The finals, nonetheless, will nonetheless be held at a impartial web site.
Because the league added the NBA Cup to the schedule within the 2023-24 marketing campaign, the semifinals and finals have been performed at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas.
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Vegas will nonetheless host the ultimate two rounds of the match this season. These video games shall be performed on Dec. 13 (semifinals) and 16 (finals), in line with NBA.com.
The NBA didn’t verify if Las Vegas would stay the host web site for the championship sport after the 2025-26 season, however the league did state that future video games shall be performed at a impartial web site.
For instance, the 2 semifinal video games of the 2024-25 NBA Cup match would have been performed at Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee and Paycom Heart in Oklahoma Metropolis.
The Bucks and Thunder gained their semifinal video games, defeating the Atlanta Hawks and Houston Rockets, respectively.
NBA Cup Set For Third Version In 2025-26
The 2025 NBA Cup will tip off on Friday, Oct. 31 in group markets and culminate with the semifinals (Saturday, Dec. 13) and championship (Tuesday, Dec. 16) happening at T-Cellular Area.
The NBA Cup consists of two phases — group play and the knockout rounds.
All 30 groups had been randomly drawn into teams of 5 inside their convention primarily based on win-loss information from the 2024-25 common season.
The East and West teams had been unveiled in July.
Every group will play 4 designated group play video games on “Cup Nights,” which is able to happen starting Oct. 31 and persevering with by way of Nov. 28.
Following group play, eight groups will advance to the knockout rounds. These groups embody two wild playing cards and groups which have the very best standing in group play video games in every of the six teams.
In actual fact, the wild playing cards would be the group from every convention with the very best file in group play video games that completed second in its group.
In the meantime, the knockout rounds will encompass single-elimination video games within the quarterfinals (Tuesday, Dec. 9 and Wednesday, Dec. 10), semifinals, and championship.
The knockout groups will compete for a prize pool and the NBA Cup championship trophy.
The 2025-26 NBA season ideas off Tuesday, Oct. 21.
