The Milwaukee Bucks went into the 2025/26 NBA season as 50/1 shots to win the championship for just the third time in their history. Having clinched the

Khris Middleton will again be back at Fiserv Forum, playing for the opposition, when the Bucks and Wizards meet in the 2025-26 season opener.

Jerry West holds the record for most points in Game 7 of the NBA Finals with 42 for the Lakers in 1969. The three highest-scoring performances in a Game 7 all came in losing efforts; LeBron James' 37 points in 2013 are the most by a player on the winning team.

Winning the NBA championship in 2021 was a crowning achievement for the Milwaukee Bucks. It was the first title they had won in 50 years since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was on the team. Since that victory, the Bucks have not come close to getting back to the NBA ...

After reaching (and losing) in the 2025 NBA Finals with Indiana, Milwaukee's new big man wants to complete what he started.

While NBA Cup games broadcast on TV across NBC and ESPN, the in-season tournament can also be streamed on web-based streaming cable services — like DirecTV, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV — some of which even offer free trials. Games are also streamable on Prime Video and Peacock.

The six group winners plus a wild card from each conference — determined by head-to-head record and point differential — go into an eight-team knockout round bracket (East vs. East, West vs. West, similar to the NBA playoffs where the conferences are separate until the Finals). The knockout round games are single-elimination.