Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
[Last week: LeBron James' Lakers are stuck in the middle]
Fact or Fiction: SGA is the best player left in the NBA Cup
The NBA Cup field is down to four teams. As much as we respect the collection of talent on the Atlanta Hawks and Houston Rockets — and they are good teams (maybe not championship good but "could win the NBA Cup" good) — the question of who is the best player left in the tournament is two names long.