By Jeje Gomez | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-07-10 04:31:13
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
马刺队将在联盟季中锦标赛小组赛中迎战掘金、火箭、勇士和开拓者。
联盟公布了2025年阿联酋航空NBA杯的分组情况，马刺队的处境并不轻松。圣安东尼奥队被分在了C组，同组对手包括掘金、火箭、勇士和开拓者。银黑军团将主场迎战休斯顿和金州，客场挑战丹佛和波特兰。
联盟季中锦标赛将连续第三个赛季举办。尽管自首届赛事以来阵容已得到显著提升，但马刺队要首次小组出线可能仍将面临挑战。圣安东尼奥队被分在了最艰难的小组，他们将面对火箭和掘金两支强队，以及金州和波特兰两支季后赛争夺者。小组赛每队仅有四场比赛，两主两客，所以一切皆有可能，但本届比赛没有一场是“白送”的胜利。实力最弱的对手或许是开拓者，但他们上赛季在积分榜上领先于马刺，并且预计今年表现会更好。
以下是NBA提供的赛事运作方式解释：
八支球队将晋级淘汰赛：六个小组中各自小组赛战绩最佳的球队，以及两张“外卡”（即每支分区中小组赛战绩最佳的小组第二名）。淘汰赛将包括单场淘汰制的四分之一决赛（于12月9日星期二和12月10日星期三在NBA球队主场进行），以及半决赛和决赛（分别于12月13日和12月16日在拉斯维加斯进行）。晋级淘汰赛的球队将争夺奖金和NBA杯冠军奖杯。
圣安东尼奥队在2023年（由湖人队夺冠）的赛事中小组赛四战皆墨，而在2024年（由雄鹿队夺冠）的比赛中战绩为2胜2负。
以下是2025年赛事的全部小组分组：
2025年阿联酋航空NBA杯的分组已经确定。
全部30支NBA球队根据2024-25赛季常规赛的胜负记录，在各自赛区内被随机分入五个小组。
分组情况如下：pic.twitter.com/ZZVUwtp3fO
— NBA Communications (@ NBAPR) July 9, 2025
西部三个小组都充满挑战，但A组有处于重建期的爵士队和正在进行阵容调整的太阳队，而B组则有饱受伤病困扰的灰熊队、独行侠队以及表现扑朔迷离的鹈鹕队。与此同时，东部则有几支实力较弱的球队，这使得顶级球队在小组赛中的晋级难度相对较低。
本届锦标赛的比赛将在10月31日至11月28日之间进行，因此各队没有太多时间提前磨合默契。除了决赛之外，所有比赛的胜负都将计入常规赛战绩。半决赛和决赛将分别于12月13日和12月16日在拉斯维加斯举行。
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Spurs land in the 2025 Emirates NBA Cup’s ‘Group of Death’
The Spurs will face the Nuggets, Rockets, Warriors and Trail Blazers in the league’s in-season tournament’s group stage.
The league announced the groups for the 2025 Emirates NBA Cup and the Spurs won’t have it easy. San Antonio is in Group C along with the Nuggets, Rockets, Warriors and Trail Blazers. The Silver and Black will host Houston and Golden State and visit Denver and Portland.
The league’s in-season tournament will be played for the third consecutive season, and it may be hard for the Spurs to advance past the group stage for the first time despite dramatically improving their roster since the first iteration. San Antonio has landed in the toughest group, facing two contenders in the Rockets and Nuggets, and two playoff hopefuls in Golden State and Portland. The group stage consists of only four games, two home and two away for every team, so anything can happen, but there are no gimmies in this edition. The weakest opponent is arguably the Blazers, which finished last season ahead of the Spurs in the standings and should be better this year.
Here’s an explanation of how the tournament works, courtesy of the NBA:
Eight teams will advance to the Knockout Rounds: the team with the best standing in Group Play games in each of the six groups and two “wild cards” (the team from each conference with the best record in Group Play games that finished second in its group). The Knockout Rounds will consist of single-elimination games in the Quarterfinals (played in NBA team markets on Tuesday, Dec. 9 and Wednesday, Dec. 10) and Semifinals and Championship (played in Las Vegas on Dec. 13 and Dec. 16, respectively). The Knockout teams will compete for a prize pool and the NBA Cup championship trophy.
San Antonio lost all four group games in the 2023 edition, won by the Lakers, and went 2-2 in 2024, in a cup that crowned the Bucks.
Here are all the groups for the 2025 edition:
The groups are set for the Emirates NBA Cup 2025.
All 30 NBA teams were randomly drawn into groups of five within their conference based on win-loss records from the 2024-25 regular season.
The groups are available below. pic.twitter.com/ZZVUwtp3fO
— NBA Communications (@ NBAPR) July 9, 2025
All three West groups are tough, but Group A has the rebuilding Jazz and the retooling Suns, and Group B features the injury-riddled Grizzlies and Mavericks, and the confusing Pelicans. Meanwhile, the East has several weak teams, which makes the groups easier for the top squads.
The tournament games will be played between October 31 and November 28, so there won’t be much time for teams to develop chemistry beforehand. All games except for the championship game count towards the standings. The semifinals and finals will be held in Las Vegas on December 13 and 16, respectively.
By Jeje Gomez, via Pounding The Rock
