The NBA Cup returns in 2025 for the third annual in-season tournament. The Sporting News is your guide to tickets, schedules, arena policies and more to know for the tournament, including the semifinals and championship in Las Vegas.

The NBA is gearing up for an electrifying 2025-26 season, with the schedule slowly unveiling pivotal dates including Opening Night, Christmas Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day games.

The first game of the 25-26 NBA season promises to be one of the best matchups of the opening week. Kevin Durant will make his Houston Rockets debut against the franchise he left in 2017, which will be celebrating the first ring night in franchise history.

Here's what to know about "Inside the NBA" in 2025-26 as it transitions from the TNT era onto ESPN's airwaves.

The 2025-26 Cleveland Cavaliers season is in its infancy, and there are layers to this thing. Let's peel them back.

ESPN and ABC will primarily cover games on Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays during the 2025-26 regular season. "Inside the NBA" will serve as ESPN's main pregame, halftime and postgame show for its biggest events, but "NBA Countdown" will still air before select games.

The NBA Cup has quickly become a exciting new part of the basketball calendar, creating a playoff-like atmosphere in the middle of the regular season. As teams battle for the trophy, a common question arises about the traditional symbol of NBA success.

It's the 2025 Sports Equinox. Similar to a solar equinox, when the sun lines up perfectly with the Earth's equator to signal the change of seasons, the sports seasons from the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL all align.