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2025 NBA Cup

2025 NBA Cup

The 2025 NBA Cup (known as the Emirates NBA Cup for sponsorship reasons) was a multi-stagebasketball tournament held as part of the 2025–26 NBA season. It was the third edition of the NBA Cup. All 30 teams participated, each playing four regular season games that counted towards the tournament's group stage standings. All games in the knockout round, except for the championship game, also counted towards the regular season standings. The tournament's semifinals and championship game were played at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Milwaukee Bucks were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the group stage by the New York Knicks, who would go on to beat the San Antonio Spurs in the championship game to win their first NBA Cup. The NBA Finals at the end of this season would feature a rematch of this championship game to become the first teams to face each other in both the NBA Cup and the NBA Finals in the same season; and it was also a rematch of the 1999 Finals. The Knicks went on to defeat the Spurs in that Finals for the league championship, making them the first team to win both the NBA Cup and the Larry O'Brien Trophy in the same season.