- ESPN to reveal the draw for team play NBA today (Friday, 7 p.m. ET)
new York – The National Basketball Association (NBA) today unveiled the new logo for the Emirates NBA Cup and announced game dates for the second annual in-season competition, which will begin on Tuesday, November 12 in NBA team markets and culminate with the T -Mobile Arena in Las Vegas hosting both the Semi-Finals on Saturday, December 14th and the Championship on Tuesday, December 17th.
The Emirates NBA Cup logo celebrates the league’s new global marketing partnership with Emirates, announced in February. The logo features an image of the championship trophy signifying the highest level of achievement in the Emirates NBA Cup and includes Emirates branding to mark the newly rebranded tournament.
For the Emirates NBA Cup 2024, all 30 NBA teams will be randomly drawn into groups of five in their conference based on their win-loss records from the 2023-24 regular season. The six groups will be revealed by ESPN tomorrow (Friday, July 12) at 7 p.m. ET on NBA Today: Emirates NBA Cup Group Reveal, followed by an NBA 2K25 Summer League 2024 diplomat on the network as the Houston Rockets take on the Los Angeles Lakers (7:30 p.m. ET) and the Atlanta Hawks meet the Washington Wizards (9:30 p.m. ET). Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner, who played in the 2023 Tournament Championship, New Orleans Pelicans guard C.J. McCollum and Oklahoma City Thunder forward-center Chet Holmgren will be featured in the group unveiling.
Emirates NBA Cup Group Play matches will take place on ‘Cup Nights’ on four Tuesdays (November 12, 19 and 26 and December 3) and three Fridays (November 15, 22 and 29), with each team playing one game against each of their four group opponents. The single-elimination knockout rounds will begin with the Quarterfinals on Tuesday, December 10 and Wednesday, December 11 in NBA team markets, followed by the Semifinals and the Championship at T-Mobile Arena for the second year in a row.
NBA Experiences premium offers for the semifinals and championship game in Las Vegas are available now at NBAExperiences.com/cup. For these site-neutral games, NBA ID members will have access to pre-sale tickets from Tuesday, July 30 through Wednesday, July 31, and general tickets will go on sale to the public once the Group Play schedule is announced in August. NBA ID, the league’s global membership program, can be signed up for free here.
Like last season’s inaugural tournament, the Emirates NBA Cup 2024 will have two stages: Group play for all 30 NBA teams and knockout rounds for the eight teams that advance from Group Play (the three group winners and one wild cards in each conference).
The 22 teams that do not qualify for the Quarter Finals will each be assigned two regular season games (one home and one away) to be played on Thursday 12th December or Friday 13th December and Sunday 15th December or Monday 16th December. The losing teams in the Quarterfinals in each conference will play each other in a regular season game on December 12, 13, 15 or 16.
For more information on Emirates NBA Cup 2024, visit NBA.com/nbacup or the NBA app.