Is the NBA Cup working? Tim Bontemps details what's next for the tournament on the eve of the Knicks-Spurs title game.

With the 2025-26 NBA season in full swing, the league is already seeing a lot of buzz and excitement for what’s to come throughout the schedule, especially for the NBA Cup in-season tournament. After six weeks of group play, quarterfinals and semifinals, there are only two teams left to compete for the NBA Cup trophy.

The Hall of Famer has an emotional stake in the San Antonio Spurs, the team he helped win four championships, and this was before the Spurs played the behemoth from Oklahoma City in the semifinals. Let’s just say that, after the fact, that stake has now intensified.

The current 2026 NBA playoff picture including bracket, schedule, standings, matchups and seedings.

After returning from injury and taking down the Thunder in the NBA Cup, Victor Wembanyama has put himself back in the MVP conversation.

The San Antonio Spurs took a wrecking ball to the Oklahoma City Thunder's hopes of winning the NBA Cup, but that wasn't the Miley Cyrus song playing in the locker room after Saturday's 111-109 win.

"When I come back on the court, I think it will be me," Wembanyama said when asked who the best player in the NBA is.

Jalen Brunson got hot in Las Vegas at the right time. The Knicks’ All-NBA point guard dropped his first 40-point game of the season on the Magic, plus dished out eight assists, to put New York into the championship game of the NBA Cup.