{"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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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=\"nofollow 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 nofollow\">@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 nofollow\">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":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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":["post-430969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-angeles","tag-antonio","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-basketball","tag-city","tag-collin","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-cup","tag-gillespie","tag-heat","tag-knicks","tag-lakers","tag-las","tag-las-vegas","tag-los","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-magic","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-nba-cup","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-visitors-az","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-news","tag-nv","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-raptors","tag-san","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-spurs","tag-suns","tag-thunder","tag-timberwolves","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-twitter","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vegas","tag-visitors","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}]}}