NBA Cup 2024: Here’s what’s at stake on the final day of group play, plus every clinch scenario

[ad_1]

The 2024 Emirates NBA Cup resumes Tuesday, with five of the eight spots in the knockout round — three in the East, two in the West — still up for grabs on the seventh and final night of group-stage play.

Here’s a look at what’s at stake in Tuesday’s 11-game NBA Cup slate, as well as the lay of the land in each of the six groups as the race for the NBA Cup begins to heat up:

The stakes: Group winners and wild cards

This will be the final night of Group Play, 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:

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 — Thursday, Dec. 12, Friday, Dec. 13, Sunday, Dec. 15 and Monday, Dec. 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.

Gone ’til (next) November

After a massive Black Friday slate, we’re now up to 14 teams eliminated.

In the West, we’ve bid farewell to the…

[ad_2]
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-cup-2024-heres-whats-at-stake-on-the-final-day-of-group-play-plus-every-clinch-scenario-205002261.html

Author : Yahoo Sports

Publish date : 2024-12-02 20:50:00

Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.