{"id":509650,"date":"2026-08-13T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=509650"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:36:41","slug":"nba-cup-2026-schedule-unveiled-lakers-warriors-and-knicks-76ers-headline-opening-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-cup-2026-schedule-unveiled-lakers-warriors-and-knicks-76ers-headline-opening-night\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup 2026 schedule unveiled: Lakers-Warriors and Knicks-76ers headline opening night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"2151\" data-end=\"2568\">The NBA has officially released the <strong data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2212\">2026 NBA Cup schedule<\/strong>, with group play set to tip off on <strong data-start=\"2248\" data-end=\"2262\">October 30<\/strong> and conclude on <strong data-start=\"2279\" data-end=\"2294\">November 27<\/strong>. Opening night will feature two blockbuster matchups as the defending NBA champion <strong data-start=\"2378\" data-end=\"2397\">New York Knicks<\/strong> host <strong data-start=\"2403\" data-end=\"2419\">LeBron James<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"2428\" data-end=\"2450\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/strong>, while the <strong data-start=\"2462\" data-end=\"2484\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> travel to face the <strong data-start=\"2504\" data-end=\"2529\">Golden State Warriors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2570\" data-end=\"2992\">The Knicks, who captured both the <strong data-start=\"2604\" data-end=\"2615\">NBA Cup<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"2624\" data-end=\"2644\">NBA championship<\/strong> last season, will also face the <strong data-start=\"2677\" data-end=\"2695\">Indiana Pacers<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"2699\" data-end=\"2714\">November 13<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"2723\" data-end=\"2737\">Miami Heat<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"2741\" data-end=\"2756\">November 27<\/strong> during group play. After declining to hang a banner for their NBA Cup triumph, New York will instead raise its NBA championship banner on opening night, <strong data-start=\"2910\" data-end=\"2924\">October 20<\/strong>, before hosting Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2994\" data-end=\"3440\">NBA Cup group play games will be held every Friday from <strong data-start=\"3050\" data-end=\"3084\">October 30 through November 27<\/strong>, with additional games on <strong data-start=\"3111\" data-end=\"3133\">November 24 and 25<\/strong>. The six group winners and one wild-card team from each conference will advance to the quarterfinals on <strong data-start=\"3238\" data-end=\"3254\">December 4-5<\/strong>, followed by the semifinals on <strong data-start=\"3286\" data-end=\"3302\">December 8-9<\/strong>. The championship game will take place on <strong data-start=\"3345\" data-end=\"3360\">December 11<\/strong> at <strong data-start=\"3364\" data-end=\"3385\">Hinkle Fieldhouse<\/strong> in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3442\" data-end=\"3572\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The NBA is expected to release the complete <strong data-start=\"3486\" data-end=\"3521\">2026-27 regular-season schedule<\/strong> on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James begins his NBA Cup campaign with the 76ers against the defending champion Knicks, while the Lakers visit the Warriors on October 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-509650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509650"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=509650"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=509650"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=509650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}