The new contest will take place over four Fridays and three Tuesdays, and the 30 franchises of the most important basketball league will participate.
The new NBA Cup, the NBA Cupwill begin November 3 and will culminate the December 9 forthcoming, developing the meetings for four Fridays and three Tuesdays and with the final in the city of Las Vegasofficially indicated the league.
How many franchises will participate?
The Cupwith the participation 30 franchisesis inspired by european format of elimination tournaments in Football and basketball and aims to generate a new incentive for the fans and the players themselves.
The 30 teams will be divided into two conferences of 15 each as usualwith six groups of five teams each. each franchise will play with the 4 teams in their group only onceso they will be two matches at home and two on the road.
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It is defined by direct elimination, which will begin from the quarter finalswill be classified 3 leaders from each grouphe second best and matches will count toward regular season standings, except for the final.
This is how the groups were defined
- To East: Philadelphia Sixers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Atlanta Hawks, Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons.
- B East: Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, Washington Wizards and Charlotte Hornets.
- C East: Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls and Orlando Magic.
- To West: Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz and Portland Trail Blazers.
- B West: Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, New Orleans Pelicans, Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets.
- C West: Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs.
The most outstanding matches will be
- November 3: Bucks-Knicks and Nuggets-Mavericks
- November 10: Celtics-Nets and Suns-Lakers
- November 14: Thunder-Spurs and Nuggets-Clippers
- November 17: Spurs-Kings and Jazz-Suns
- November 21 Sixers-Cavaliers and Lakers-Jazz
- November 24: Magic-Celtics, Grizzlies-Suns, Knicks-Heat and Warriors-Spurs
- November 28: Heat-Bucks and Kings-WarriorsNBA Cup groups.
Source: Ambito
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