NEW YORK \u2014 The defending NBA Cup champion Milwaukee Bucks will play their group-stage games in this season\u2019s tournament against the Chicago Bulls, New York Knicks, Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets, the league announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The league unveiled the groups for the third year of the tournament, which tips off Oct. 31. Group play continues through Nov. 28.<\/p>\n
Quarterfinals will be Dec. 9 and 10 with the semifinals Dec. 13 in Las Vegas. The championship game \u2014 which won\u2019t count toward the season record and statistics for either team \u2014 is Dec. 16 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
In group play, each team will have two road and two home games. Teams that do not reach the quarterfinals or semifinals will have added to their schedules matchups against two other teams that also did not qualify for the NBA Cup playoffs, pushing the season to the full 82 games.<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal and semifinal games will count toward the regular season for the teams involved.<\/p>\n
Full schedules will be announced in August, coinciding with the rest of the NBA\u2019s schedule rollout for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
East Group A<\/p>\n
Cleveland Cavaliers
\nIndiana Pacers
\nAtlanta Hawks
\nToronto Raptors
\nWashington Wizards<\/p>\n
East Group B<\/p>\n
Boston Celtics
\nDetroit Pistons
\nOrlando Magic
\nBrooklyn Nets
\nPhiladelphia 76ers<\/p>\n
East Group C<\/p>\n
Milwaukee Bucks
\nNew York Knicks
\nChicago Bulls
\nMiami Heat
\nCharlotte Hornets<\/p>\n
West Group A<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City Thunder
\nMinnesota Timberwolves
\nSacramento Kings
\nPhoenix Suns
\nUtah Jazz<\/p>\n
West Group B<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Lakers
\nLos Angeles Clippers
\nMemphis Grizzlies
\nDallas Mavericks
\nNew Orleans Pelicans<\/p>\n
West Group C<\/p>\n
Houston Rockets
\nDenver Nuggets
\nGolden State Warriors
\nPortland Trail Blazers
\nSan Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n
Originally Published: July 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 The defending NBA Cup champion Milwaukee Bucks will play their group-stage games in this season\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,329,30029,102,121,3871,6,12902],"class_list":{"0":"post-159085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-chicago-bulls","11":"tag-in-season-tournament","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-milwaukeebucks","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114825206839352727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}