{"id":430969,"date":"2025-12-07T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T12:43:16","slug":"phoenix-suns-oklahoma-city-thunder-meet-in-nba-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430969\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns, Oklahoma City Thunder meet in NBA Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87206785007-no-suns-15.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Suns&#8217; Grayson Allen reflects on his career-high scoring game<\/p>\n<p>Grayson Allen scored a career-high 42 points, hitting 10 shots from 3, in the Phoenix Suns&#8217; victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Nov. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> will have another opportunity to take on the defending NBA champions with a trip to Las Vegas on the line this time.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns face the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in the NBA Cup quarterfinals on Wednesday, Dec. 10, with the winner advancing to the tournament semifinals on Dec. 13 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>The championship game is Dec. 16 at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns fell to the Thunder, 123-119, on Nov. 28 at Paycom Center to conclude NBA Cup West Group A play.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City earned the top seed in the West while Phoenix advanced as a wild card with the fourth seed for the second time in the three years of the NBA Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix lost to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" data-autotag=\"4d34a300-3059-4ec4-a4d3-4d636ac95816\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> at Crypto.com Arena in the quarterfinals of the first year of the tournament in 2023. The Lakers won the inaugural tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 NBA Cup quarterfinals begin Dec. 9 with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/miami-heat\/14\/\" data-autotag=\"2fc7081f-f0b3-4b1d-b589-781c9028a4e7\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Heat<\/a> playing at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/19\/\" data-autotag=\"0beff9dc-ada3-4e62-b859-030ef8c2c69f\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a>, the top seed in the East, followed by the second-seeded <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/28\/\" data-autotag=\"c42c0dfa-381f-4c0e-89cb-1ca38431f316\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> hosting the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/\" data-autotag=\"8b753024-9401-4cc8-9e23-5a6cdca0282d\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns and Thunder battle Dec. 10 in the first West quarterfinals game. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/\" data-autotag=\"13196729-d867-4914-8227-582a16eadb0b\" rel=\"noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> then take on the second-seeded Lakers in the second quarterfinal in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix will play on Monday, Dec. 8, at Minnesota before facing the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns rallied to stun the Timberwolves, 114-113, on Nov. 21 in Phoenix as Collin Gillespie hit the game-winning shot with 6.4 seconds left to cap a 9-0 run in the game\u2019s final 49 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Grayson Allen reflects on his career-high scoring game Grayson Allen scored a career-high 42 points, hitting 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,4231,1625,5643,1587,1339,2451,21587,21595,463,21588,2096,8606,8604,21475,2184,4230,3141,20725,380,3120,3663,3131,1571,5382,1260,38985,942,635,7233,3122,50,16635,5847,6949,1268,6063,3121,450,950,1589,1721,10008,1624,3138,62,1458,7199,7231,6001,6273,8790,3126,27761,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,21476,7223,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-430969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-antonio","11":"tag-arizona","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-city","15":"tag-collin","16":"tag-collin-gillespie","17":"tag-cup","18":"tag-gillespie","19":"tag-heat","20":"tag-knicks","21":"tag-lakers","22":"tag-las","23":"tag-las-vegas","24":"tag-los","25":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","26":"tag-magic","27":"tag-miami","28":"tag-miami-heat","29":"tag-minnesota","30":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","31":"tag-national","32":"tag-national-sports","33":"tag-nba","34":"tag-nba-cup","35":"tag-neutral","36":"tag-new","37":"tag-new-visitors-az","38":"tag-new-york-knicks","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-nv","41":"tag-oklahoma","42":"tag-oklahoma-city","43":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","44":"tag-orlando","45":"tag-orlando-magic","46":"tag-overall","47":"tag-overall-neutral","48":"tag-phoenix","49":"tag-phoenix-suns","50":"tag-raptors","51":"tag-san","52":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","53":"tag-sports","54":"tag-sports-news","55":"tag-spurs","56":"tag-suns","57":"tag-thunder","58":"tag-timberwolves","59":"tag-toronto","60":"tag-toronto-raptors","61":"tag-twitter","62":"tag-united-states","63":"tag-united-states-of-america","64":"tag-unitedstates","65":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","66":"tag-us","67":"tag-usa","68":"tag-vegas","69":"tag-visitors","70":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}