The 2024 Emirates NBA Cup resumes Tuesday, with five of the eight spots in the knockout round — three in the East, two in the West — still up for grabs on the seventh and final night of group-stage play.
Here's a look at what’s at stake in Tuesday’s 11-game NBA Cup slate, as well as the lay of the land in each of the six groups as the race for the NBA Cup begins to heat up:
The stakes: Group winners and wild cards
This will be the final night of group play, with the top eight teams in the East and West — the winners of Groups A, B and C, plus two “wild cards” (the team from each conference with the best record in group-play games that finished second in its group) — advancing to the single-elimination knockout rounds.