Eight teams, seven games.
Eight teams reach the NBA Cup knockouts: per conference, the three group winners and a wild card, seeded 1 to 4. Quarterfinals are 1 v 4 and 2 v 3, then a conference semifinal, then East v West in the final.
Pick the winner, then the margin.
Pick the winner of all seven games. For a bonus, add how much they win by: 1–5, 6–10 or 11+ points, overtime included. The bonus counts only when the winner is right.
A pick scores when its team wins that game, whoever it actually played.
How it scores.
Every round is worth the same 8 points for winners, so the final counts as much as all four quarterfinals.
| Round | Games | Winner | Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarterfinals | 4 | 2 | +1 |
| Semifinals | 2 | 4 | +1 |
| Final | 1 | 8 | +2 |
Up to 32 points in all.
Ties on points go to the closest guess at the total points in the final (150–320). Still level: a shared rank.
One lock, no scramble.
Everything saves as you go. The whole bracket locks at the first quarterfinal tip, and whatever is saved then is your entry. A partial bracket scores what it has.
Play it with your crew.
Add the Cup Bracket to a crew and it gets its own crew board, beside the global one. Once the bracket locks, everyone in the crew can see every pick.