NBA Cup 2025 Showdown: Can Underdog Spurs Upset Lakers and Will Suns’ Firepower Outshine Thunder’s Grit?
It’s a lot to expect; the odds of getting it all to go right are astonishingly small. But the Suns have been outperforming expectations and beating the odds all season. Why stop now?
What to know about Spurs-Lakers (10 p.m. ET, Prime Video)
The first time these two teams played this season, the Lakers were missing James and Reaves … so Luka just went ahead and put up 35-9-13 with five steals and a pair of blocks in a come-from-behind win.
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Nice to have a bona fide MVP candidate playing at the peak of his powers to fall back on when things aren’t going your way — and a second banana in Reaves who’s making an All-Star leap in his own right (28.4 points, 6.7 assists, 5.5 rebounds per game on 51/37/87 shooting splits) to help command what’s been a damn-near-unstoppable pick-and-roll attack.



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