NBA Cup 2024: What’s at stake for Friday’s 10-game slate

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After taking Thanksgiving off, the NBA returns with a full-day Black Friday feast. Two-thirds of the league will be in action as the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup resumes with 10 games, beginning with Knicks-Hornets at 12 p.m. ET and stretching all the way through a tasty Thunder-Lakers matchup in the 10 p.m. ET nightcap.

Here’s a look at what’s at stake in Friday’s 10-game NBA Cup slate, as well as the lay of the land in each of the six groups as the tourney presses on:

How it works: Group winners and wild cards

There are two more nights of Group Play, which concludes on Tuesday, Dec. 3, with the top eight teams in the East and West — the winners of Groups A, B and C, plus two “wild cards” (the team from each conference with the best record in group-play games that finished second in its group) — advancing to the single-elimination knockout rounds.

Because of the small number of games, tiebreakers will likely come into play (even for the wild card), with the advancing team being decided by:

(1) head-to-head record in group play;

(2) non-overtime point differential in group play;

(3) total non-overtime points in group play;

(4) 2023-24 regular-season record;

… and, finally, if all of that fails to break the tie:

(5) a random drawing.

The four quarterfinal games will be played Tuesday, Dec. 10, and Wednesday, Dec. 11.

The four winners will advance to Las Vegas, where the semifinals will be held on Saturday, Dec. 14. The championship game for the NBA Cup will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 8:30 p.m. ET on ABC. It will be the only game in the entire tournament that won’t also count toward the participating teams’ regular-season records or their players’ statistics.

The teams that don’t make it to Las Vegas won’t just be chilling at home, though. During the knockout rounds, on the days where no NBA Cup games are scheduled — Dec. 12, 13, 15 and 16 — the 22 teams who didn’t qualify for the knockouts will each play two regular-season games. The four teams that lose in the quarterfinals will each play one regular-season game against one another, too.

Here’s where things stand in group play:

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Publish date : 2024-11-29 03:04:00

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