The league introduced the teams for the 2025 Emirates NBA Cup and the Spurs received’t have it simple. San Antonio is in Group C together with the Nuggets, Rockets, Warriors and Path Blazers. The Silver and Black will host Houston and Golden State and go to Denver and Portland.
The league’s in-season event shall be performed for the third consecutive season, and it could be exhausting for the Spurs to advance previous the group stage for the primary time regardless of dramatically bettering their roster because the first iteration. San Antonio has landed within the hardest group, dealing with two contenders within the Rockets and Nuggets, and two playoff hopefuls in Golden State and Portland. The group stage consists of solely 4 video games, two house and two away for each group, so something can occur, however there aren’t any gimmies on this version. The weakest opponent is arguably the Blazers, which completed final season forward of the Spurs within the standings and ought to be higher this yr.
Right here’s a proof of how the event works, courtesy of the NBA:
Eight groups will advance to the Knockout Rounds: the group with the very best standing in Group Play video games in every of the six teams and two “wild playing cards” (the group from every convention with the very best file in Group Play video games that completed second in its group). The Knockout Rounds will include single-elimination video games within the Quarterfinals (performed in NBA group markets on Tuesday, Dec. 9 and Wednesday, Dec. 10) and Semifinals and Championship (performed in Las Vegas on Dec. 13 and Dec. 16, respectively). The Knockout groups will compete for a prize pool and the NBA Cup championship trophy.
San Antonio misplaced all 4 group video games within the 2023 version, received by the Lakers, and went 2-2 in 2024, in a cup that topped the Bucks.
Listed below are all of the teams for the 2025 version:
The teams are set for the Emirates NBA Cup 2025.
All 30 NBA groups had been randomly drawn into teams of 5 inside their convention based mostly on win-loss data from the 2024-25 common season.
The teams can be found under. pic.twitter.com/ZZVUwtp3fO
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) July 9, 2025
All three West teams are powerful, however Group A has the rebuilding Jazz and the retooling Suns, and Group B options the injury-riddled Grizzlies and Mavericks, and the complicated Pelicans. In the meantime, the East has a number of weak groups, which makes the teams simpler for the highest squads.
The event video games shall be performed between October 31 and November 28, so there received’t be a lot time for groups to develop chemistry beforehand. All video games apart from the championship recreation rely in the direction of the standings. The semifinals and finals shall be held in Las Vegas on December 13 and 16, respectively.
