NBA Cup group play comes to an end as eight teams make cut for playoff games
Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard takes a shot ahead of Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham during the first half of an Emirates NBA Cup basketball game. The Bucks won 128-107 on Dec. 3, 2024, in Detroit.The other six remaining Cup contenders – Oklahoma City, Golden State, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Orlando – are heading there for the first time.
Oklahoma City’s win over Utah wound up giving the Thunder the West Group B title, and the Thunder joined Houston and Golden State as qualifiers; the Rockets and Warriors had clinched before Tuesday night. And Dallas rallied from a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat Memphis and clinch the West wild-card spot.The four quarter-final winners will meet in the semi-finals at Las Vegas on Dec. 14, and the title game is there on Dec. 17.
All the Magic had to do to clinch the wild-card spot was not lose by more than 37 points in order to stay ahead of Boston in the point-differential race. They found them trailing by – you guessed it – 37 points at New York late in the third quarter. The Magic got through thanks to the point differential. The Thunder edged Phoenix for the West Group B title on a head-to-head tiebreaker – both went 3-1 in group play, but the Suns’ loss was to Oklahoma City – and point differential wound up making OKC the top seed out West over Houston.
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