2026-27 NBA Cup

The NBA Cup is played inside the regular season. Every group game counts in the standings as well as here, and so do the quarterfinals and semifinals — only the final does not, which is why the two clubs that reach it play 83 games and everybody else plays 82.

Groups are ranked on win rate, then the Cup's own tiebreakers as far as the schedule supports them: head-to-head among the tied clubs, then point differential, then total points, then the previous season's record. The league settles anything still level with a random drawing, which no feed publishes, so clubs level after four rungs are shown in a stable order rather than with an invented winner.

The groups are not lettered here. The league names them East Group A through West Group C, and nothing in the schedule says which is which — it is derivable only from the membership, so printing a letter would mean guessing at one. A wrong letter on a correct table is an error a reader cannot catch, so this page shows the conference and the clubs instead.

The point differential column is not the league's official figure. The Cup excludes overtime from it, and the schedule carries final scores with no period breakdown to subtract, so a group game that went to overtime counts here and does not count in the NBA's own table. It is shown because it orders the clubs this page is showing; it is not the number to quote.

Records count finished games only. A fixture that is scheduled or in progress adds nothing to a club's row, so early in the group stage the games-played column is smaller than the fixture list implies rather than crediting a result nobody has yet.