NBA Cup 2024: Who is in quarterfinals, schedule, analysis, odds, location for NBA’s in-season tournament

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Now things get serious.

We are through the group play stage of the 2024 NBA Cup, and it is down to eight teams in the knockout round. Win the first game, and teams get a mid-season trip to Las Vegas to play for the $514,971 prize money for each player on the NBA Cup championship team.

Let’s break it all down.

What’s the NBA Cup 2024 format?

It started with each of the 30 NBA teams drawn into six groups of five teams each (three East and three West). Teams played everyone else in their group once (4 games, which counted as NBA Cup and regular season NBA games). Now, the six group winners plus a wild card from each conference — determined by head-to-head record and point differential — have entered the eight-team knockout round bracket (East vs. East, West vs. West until the NBA Cup Finals). Every game from here on out is single-elimination.

The four winners of the quarterfinals games head to Las Vegas for the NBA Cup semifinals on Dec. 14 and the championship game on Dec. 17.

NBA Cup Quarterfinals Schedule

Tuesday, Dec. 10

Orlando at Milwaukee (7 pm ET, TNT)
Dallas at Oklahoma City (9:30 ET, TNT)

Wednesday, Dec. 11

Atlanta at New York (7 pm ET, ESPN)
Golden State at Houston (9:30 ET, TNT)

NBA Cup Quarterfinals Analysis

Orlando at Milwaukee

The Bucks come in as one of the hottest teams in the NBA right now, having won 8-of-10 (albeit against a soft schedule), and Giannis Antetokounmpo is playing at an MVP level, averaging 32.5 points, 11.6 rebounds, and 6.2 assists a game. Orlando has the third-best defense in the NBA and the personnel to slow the Bucks, but can it score enough points to win — both of the team’s leading scorers and shot creators, Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner, are out with torn oblique muscles. Without them, this is a very tough ask for the Magic on the road.

Dallas at Oklahoma City

This is the best game of the NBA Cup quarterfinals and a possible Western Conference Finals preview. The host Thunder have looked like the best team in the NBA this season with a stifling defense and MVP candidate Shae Gilgeous-Alexander running the offense. OKC has looked like a complete team with Isaiah Hartenstein back…

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Publish date : 2024-12-10 15:39:00

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