
The airline Emirates is now the official sponsor of the tournament, which is now known as the Emirates NBA Cup. As was the case last season, each team will use a special court for each game in the tourney leading up to the semifinal and final rounds, both of which are held in Las Vegas.
The court the Los Angeles Lakers will use for those contests may have been leaked on X (formerly Twitter), and it may be an improvement over the one they used during the 2023-24 campaign.
The Lakers, of course, won last season’s NBA Cup. They ended up hanging a banner to commemorate the victory, and although many ridiculed them for doing so, especially since they have also won 17 NBA championships, the league may have pressured them to put up that banner.
Their first game in group play for the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup will take place on Nov. 15 against the San Antonio Spurs. You can see their entire group play schedule here.