NBA Cup Articles - Page 9

The Los Angeles Lakers’ two-game road trip concludes on Friday against the Memphis Grizzlies, and it is likely they get much-needed reinforcements on the court. On Thursday afternoon, the Lakers listed both Luka Doncic and Marcus Smart as questionable on the injury report for the game against the Grizzlies. Friday’s game is the Lakers’ first […]

For the third straight year, the NBA Cup is back with group play games beginning on Friday, October 31. While two weeks have not even passed by yet in the 2025-26 NBA season, teams will begin their journey to be crowned in-season champions, as this year’s NBA Cup has the potential to deliver some amazing […]

The Denver Nuggets will be facing the Portland Trail Blazers in the group stage of the NBA Cup, and they could be without their starting point guard. Jamal Murray has landed on the injury report, as he’s dealing with left calf tightness. Murray has been available in all of the Nuggets’ games so far, and […]

The Atlanta Hawks will be without their franchise star, Trae Young, for their NBA Cup opener against the Indiana Pacers on Friday, after the four-time All-Star suffered a right knee sprain in Wednesday’s 117–112 win over the Brooklyn Nets. The injury occurred in the first quarter when teammate Mouhamed Gueye accidentally fell backward into Young’s […]

The Los Angeles Clippers are set to host their home opener on Friday night against the Phoenix Suns. It’s also the day the league unveils the new Emirates NBA Cup court that Kawhi Leonard, James Harden, and Co. will be playing on. In a social media post, the league officially announced all 30 teams NBA […]

Last year, the Detroit Pistons finally broke through after five seasons of unadulterated misery. After five years of rebuilding from the ground up, the Pistons made it to the playoffs and even competed in a close six-game series against eventual Eastern Conference Finalist New York Knicks. Cade Cunningham, the first overall pick of the 2021 […]

The 2024-25 season may have been a lost one overall for the Milwaukee Bucks; the ending to their campaign was especially miserable, as they ended up losing Damian Lillard to an Achilles injury during the 2025 NBA playoffs and then topped that with a brutal choke job in their season-ending Game 5 loss to the […]

The 2025-26 season provides a fresh start for every team, including the Chicago Bulls. Alas, the Bulls appear to be set in their ways and are headed for another middling campaign, barring an unforeseen change in their front office’s level of aggression. At the moment, the Bulls are still dealing with the Josh Giddey situation, […]

Considering how hated the Dallas Mavericks front office was to end the 2024-25 season, they managed to land on their feet like a cat with its full nine lives. After trading away Luka Doncic in a traumatic trade for the Mavs fanbase, Dallas ended up missing the playoffs and lucked into the first overall pick […]

Heading into the 2024-25 season, the Oklahoma City Thunder reloaded, bringing in Alex Caruso and Isaiah Hartenstein to complement their burgeoning young core. Suffice to say, these additions worked. They won 68 games last season and overcame every little bit of adversity that came their way on their journey to winning the 2025 NBA championship […]

To say that the 2024-25 season was a nightmare for the Philadelphia 76ers would be an understatement. A few declared them as the winner of the 2024 NBA offseason, but games are not played on paper — especially not for a 76ers team that’s relying on franchise cornerstone Joel Embiid to remain healthy. Embiid gave […]

The Los Angeles Lakers won the first-ever iteration of the NBA Cup, back when it was still called the NBA In-Season Tournament, but their journey in the second year of the tournament did not go as swimmingly. Their run in the competition coincided with a bit of a slump for the team last year, with […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves enter the 2025-26 season with unfinished business. After falling to the Oklahoma City Thunder in last year’s Western Conference Final, Minnesota has been knocking on the door of a Finals berth but just hasn’t been able to break through. With Anthony Edwards ascending as a true superstar and Rudy Gobert plus Julius […]

The Los Angeles Clippers enter the 2025 NBA Cup with familiar questions hanging over their season, but also with renewed optimism following one of the most ambitious offseasons in franchise history. A 50-win campaign in 2024-25 demonstrated resilience, even though it ended with the all-too-familiar sight of Kawhi Leonard watching from the sidelines when the […]

The Golden State Warriors enter the 2025 NBA Cup in a unique position. Their roster looks almost identical to last season’s, a blend of stability and uncertainty. Stability, because the core of Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Draymond Green remains intact. Uncertainty, because the front office has stood pat in free agency while the rest […]

The Denver Nuggets may not have received an official award for their offseason maneuvering, but if the league handed out a Most Improved Team trophy for roster construction, Denver would undoubtedly win it. The Nuggets’ front office executed a near-perfect summer, moving off Michael Porter Jr.’s burdensome contract in exchange for a more versatile forward […]

The 2025-26 Houston Rockets are a franchise with ambition, swagger, and newfound expectations. After acquiring Kevin Durant, Clint Capela, and Dorian Finney-Smith in the offseason, while also keeping faith in their young core of Alperen Şengün, Amen Thompson, and Jabari Smith Jr., the Rockets are no longer an afterthought in the Western Conference. They’re a […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers enter the 2025 NBA Cup with both pride and unfinished business. Last season, they looked every bit like a juggernaut, storming out of the gates with a franchise-best 15-0 start and finishing with 64 wins, the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Yet, for all that regular-season brilliance, their dreams of hardware […]

This offseason, the Atlanta Hawks have certainly put their best foot forward with the hopes of creating a contending team around their star point guard, Trae Young. In addition to all the internal improvements they’re hoping for from their young core, they brought in reinforcements such as Kristaps Porzingis, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, and Luke Kennard — […]

The NBA unveiled its full 2025-26 regular season schedule this past week, which included the slate for the third edition of the NBA Cup. The Orlando Magic, who reached the quarterfinals in last year’s tournament, will compete in East Group B alongside the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, and Detroit Pistons. The Magic impressed […]

While the majority of the Boston Celtics’ 2025-26 regular season schedule is under wraps until Thursday afternoon, their 2025 NBA Cup slate is already here. Boston was placed in East Group B alongside the Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets, Detroit Pistons, and Orlando Magic. Our NBA Cup Schedule is HERE ☘️ pic.twitter.com/m1aqbbBAcU — Boston Celtics (@celtics) […]

The marquee matchups on the biggest NBA days of the year have already been announced. Opening Night, Christmas Day game, and Martin Luther Kings Jr. Day games were already leaked by the NBA. The NBA schedule as a whole will be announced on Thursday, Aug. 14. So what matchups announced so far stand out? Ranking Opening Night games […]

LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers were expected to enter a new era after the team shipped away Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic. However, it looks like the Purple and Gold are contemplating on entering a full rebuild around Luka, placing a ticking timetable on James’ tenure in Los Angeles. With plenty of chatter […]

Retired forward Blake Griffin is starring in a new ad to promote the 2025 NBA Cup, featuring Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren. While the ink on Holmgren’s new five-year rookie max contract extension still hasn’t dried, he receives a funny phone call from Griffin at the beginning of the NBA ad. It’s Blake on […]

Mark Daigneault (Oklahoma City Thunder) and Rick Carlisle (Indiana Pacers) are not the only NBA Finals shot-callers looking to make adjustments this June. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is switching up the NBA All-Star Game format, again, and there are apparently more changes coming to next season’s schedule. If the league is taking suggestions, let’s spice […]

The NBA just wrapped up its second annual event, the NBA Cup, in Las Vegas, Nevada with Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks defeating Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder. But what has the NBA’s in-season tournament experience in December been like compared to the NBA Finals in June? ClutchPoints has had a reporter […]

The Milwaukee Bucks’ trip to Las Vegas couldn’t have gone much better, with an NBA Cup championship banner to hang, some extra holiday cash in players’ pockets, and plenty of team-building opportunities in Sin City. But the scheduling around the Cup had coach Doc Rivers feeling more Festivus than festive. “I can be honest, I […]

LAS VEGAS, NV — Giannis Antetokounmpo, Brook Lopez, Bobby Portis, and the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder to win the NBA Cup on Tuesday night, finishing the job they were unable to last season. But this version of Antetokounmpo appears to be different than any we’ve seen of him before. He’s still the […]

The month of December is turning out to be a good one for Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers, and not just because he has the gravelly voice you’d imagine Santa Claus would have after shouting “Ho Ho Ho” from up on his sleigh all night long on December 24th. No, for Rivers, a successful […]

When Adam Silver and the NBA announced the formation of the very first In-Season Tournament ahead of the 2023-24 season, this idea was met with a lot of criticism. In what turned out to be a successful spectacle during a normal dead period at the start of the season, the league rebranded this event to […]

LAS VEGAS, NV — Every player on the Milwaukee Bucks left Las Vegas $500,000 richer after the franchise took home the second ever NBA Cup this week. Brook Lopez’s club defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, 97-81, to secure the Cup and the winnings that come with it. Not many people go to […]

With how the Oklahoma City Thunder looked on offense against the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Cup Championship Game, it was easy for fans to facepalm in frustration. The Bucks’ defense ground the Thunder down on offense, giving the team a learning experience. However, even after the final buzzer, Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was lovingly […]

The Milwaukee Bucks had a thrilling run toward winning the franchise’s first-ever NBA Cup championship. Milwaukee thrilled fans in their dominant 97-81 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. However, this victory was more than an in-season championship run for Milwaukee. For NBA Cup MVP Giannis Antetokoumpo, it was about sending a statement to the rest […]

The Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder to become NBA Cup champions, and that means every player was awarded $500,000. Some players had already shared what they would do with the money when they won, and Giannis Antetokounmpo shared where all his money was going. “I gotta go Christmas shopping, and a happy kid […]

The Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder to become NBA Cup champions, and they were led by the dominant play of Giannis Antetokounmpo, who finished the game with 26 points, 19 rebounds, 10 assists, three blocks, and two steals. After the game, ESPN was clowned by fans after they posted a caption of Antetokounmpo […]

The consensus is that winning the NBA Cup can provide a critical confidence boost for a young team that is trying to establish itself as a true juggernaut. But one also cannot underestimate the value of falling just short in the NBA Cup. Although the Oklahoma City Thunder lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in Tuesday’s […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo likes to keep his personal life private, but Milwaukee Bucks fans are well aware of how much the 30-year-old superstar values his family. He has used his elite standing within the sports world to help those who matter most to him, including his brothers. After leading the Bucks to a 97-81 win over […]

The Milwaukee Bucks (14-11) continued their resurgence on Tuesday night in Las Vegas, vanquishing the young Oklahoma City Thunder (20-5) to capture the 2024 NBA Cup. Giannis Antetokounmpo notched a triple-double of 26 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists on his way to tournament MVP honors, but it was the champions’ defense that especially made […]

The Milwaukee Bucks became the champions of the second annual NBA Cup on Tuesday night, knocking off the Oklahoma City Thunder in the championship game 97-81. With the win, each Bucks player gets a $500,000 bonus, which is a huge chunk of money for some of the younger players and guys at the end of […]