If you’re wonder, what the heck is the “Emirates NBA Cup 2024”? The Emirates NBA Cup 2024 was previously named the NBA In-Season Tournament, which debut last year and LA Lakers are the inaugural champions of the NBA In-Season Tournament.

New name, same goal 🏆

Here's everything you need to know about the #EmiratesNBACup before the schedule release special at 3pm/et on ESPN!

Group play begins November 12… who will win the NBA Cup?

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Before we can talk about the, let’s talk about the groupings first and below are the groupings for the Emirates NBA Cup 2024.

Western Conference Group A (1) Minnesota (2) LA Clippers (3) Sacramento (4) Houston (5) Portland Group B (1) Oklahoma City (2) Phoenix (3) L.A. Lakers (4) Utah (5) San Antonio Group C (1) Denver (2) Dallas (3) New Orleans (4) Golden State (5) Memphis	Eastern Conference Group A (1) New York (2) Orlando (3) Philadelphia (4) Brooklyn (5) Charlotte Group B (1) Milwaukee (2) Indiana (3) Miami (4) Toronto (5) Detroit Group C (1) Boston (2) Cleveland (3) Chicago (4) Atlanta (5) Washington

Now that we have the groupings out of the way, the schedule for the Emirates NBA Cup 2024 will every Tuesday and Fridays starting this November 12th until December 3rd. The quarter finals will be on the December 11th and 12th, while the Semis will be on December 14th . The Emirates NBA Cup 2024 Finals will be on the 17th of December. Both Semis and the Finals will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. As for the full schedule and who will be playing against who, you can checkout the full schedule published by the NBA.

If you are still clueless as how Emirates NBA Cup 2024 works, then here’s a 2 minute video;

As for the name Emirates NBA Cup 2024, NBA and Emirates, yes the Emirates Airlines based in Dubai, has signed a multiyear global marketing partnership naming Emirates the Official Global Airline Partner of the NBA.