The Emirates NBA Cup has thrown the Week 8 schedule for a loop, with Indiana, Minnesota and Sacramento having excellent schedules.

Contenders like the Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks have advanced to the knockout round of the 2025 NBA Cup.

The field is set for the NBA Cup's eight-team tournament. Among the competitors is the OKC Thunder, which won Group A of the Western Conference with a perfect record of 4-0 in group play. It'll host the Phoenix Suns in the quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Dec. 10.

Dec. 9 How they got here: Orlando clinched East Group B and the No. 1 overall seed with a win over Detroit on Friday. That Pistons loss, plus a Cavaliers loss, opened the door and Miami walked through it to advance as the Wild Card with a 3-1 record.

Here is the full National Basketball Association schedule for Dec. 1 and how to watch all the games. Or see our sortable NBA schedule to filter by team or division. All times Eastern and accurate as of Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, at 12:08 p.m.

The Rockets have the league’s easiest December schedule regarding cumulative opponent winning percentage (.405), though it includes two games against Denver. They were the only team that, prior to Sunday, hadn’t played a back-to-back. Their first was a Nov. 30-Dec. 1 back-to-back in Utah, and their first rest-disadvantage game isn’t until Jan. 16.

You play to win the games. The Miami Heat get that. But there also are times when the greater good perhaps has to be considered, perhaps such as the NBA Cup.

The Golden State Warriors got two regular-season games added to their December schedule after the results of the inaugural Emirates NBA Cup.

The New Orleans Pelicans now know the two games that have been added to their schedule after going 0-4 in West Group B of the Emirates NBA Cup.

The NBA announced newly scheduled games following the eliminations for the Emirates NBA Cup, and the Sacramento Kings' bad luck continued with the new contests.

We're already a quarter of the way into the NBA season and so it's a good time to take stock of how the league's young players are performing. In order to do that, we're going to look at the last four draft classes and assess,