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The final eight teams for the 2024 NBA Cup are set. Here’s what you need to know.
The final eight team bracket for the 2024 NBA Cup is officially set. The Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, and Milwaukee Bucks are the three automatic qualifiers as the group winners in the Eastern Conference. The Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors, and Oklahoma City Thunder are the group winners in the West. The final two teams to reach to the quarterfinals are the Orlando Magic and Dallas Mavericks, who advanced on point-differential as the first tiebreaker.

Week 13 has come and gone. Time to set our sights for Week 14. Matt Harmon and Sal Vetri are back for another ‘Data Dump Wednesday’ by sharing 10 data points you need to know for Week 14 to maximize your fantasy lineups. To end the show, Sal identifies two RBs that you need to stash on your bench that have contingent upside heading into the stretch run of the fantasy football regular season and playoffs.

People treated their Thanksgiving hangovers with NFL football.
The Kansas City Chiefs versus Las Vegas Raiders game on Black Friday proved to be a successful move for the NFL as the audience’s appetite for football grew.
Everyone tuned in to watch the Chiefs nab a miraculous win against the two-win Raiders, 19-17. 
On paper, the matchup between the Chiefs and Raiders appeared less exciting than expected, but Las Vegas raised the stakes and pushed Kansas City to a thrilling game.
Last season, the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets averaged 9.61 million viewers.

Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz & Adam Breneman break down the latest College Football Playoff rankings, are joined by South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer and preview the SEC, Big 10, ACC, Big 12 and Mountain West conference championships.

The NFL media may be out on Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy, but his quarterback is coming to his aid as the hot seat in Arlington gets hotter.
Injured Cowboys QB Dak Prescott said he hopes the Cowboys (5-7) can bring back McCarthy despite the year’s disappointing result.
And while Prescott is onboard to keep McCarthy around, Cowboys fans may feel differently.
When asked about McCarthy’s ‘prove it’ year, with five games left, Prescott voiced his support for the coach.

Paul Finebaum hasn’t been shy in his criticisms of USC Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley, and on Monday, he once again went off about Riley’s lack of success in Los Angeles.
And he might have a point. USC finished out a disappointing 6-6 season this past weekend, losing at home to Notre Dame 49-35 on Saturday. While the College Football Playoff rankings were announced on Tuesday and other big-name programs move closer to playing for a National Championship, USC is left hoping that the transfer portal and a big recruiting class can lead to improvements in 2025.

Heading into Conference Championship Weekend, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI’s Pat Forde react to the latest College Football Playoff Rankings. They discuss the surprising move of Alabama landing in the bracket and how the conference championship games could dramatically impact the final rankings.

KAT is fed up.
The New York Knicks are laying the absolute smackdown on the Orlando Magic in the final night of NBA Cup group play on Tuesday, and no one is having a better time than Karl-Anthony Towns. Towns put up another 20-10 game to power the Knicks’ offense, showing his full scoring arsenal by splashing threes and hitting tough shots inside the arc. Towns has had several memorable moments in this game, but none more than his reaction to bumping bodies with Magic big man Mo Wagner.

The five teams that have the most to be upset about with the second-to-last CFP ranking.

Luck recently returned to football as the GM of Stanford’s program.