NBA Cup Championship on Playback

Watch the NBA Cup Finals live on Playback.

It’s the NBA Cup Finals! Join us on Playback as the Milwaukee Bucks and Oklahoma City Thunder fight to be crowned the in-season champions. Tony Pesta will be live at 8:30 pm Eastern.

OKC sits in first place in the Western Conference. They defeated the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets en route to the final game of the cup. While they are playing without Chet Holmgren — the offseason addition of Isaiah Hartensetin has reaped the rewards. Hartenstein is averaging 12.5 points and 12.3 rebounds in his first 10 games with the Thunder.

The Thunder will remain favorites to win their conference but can they win the NBA Cup? Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks will stand in their way. Antetokounmpo is having an MVP-caliber season, leading the league in scoring at 32.7 points per game. It’s the supporting cast that will come into question as Damian Lillard, Brook Lopez and Khris Middleton are carrying a ton of weight to compensate for a thin rotation.

Middleton made his season debut just four games ago. He’s a key piece to the puzzle who Milwaukee needs available. We’ll see if he flashes some of that X-Factor potential tonight.

INJURY REPORT:

Thunder: Dieng, Ousmane — OUT (Right Ring Finger; Small Fracture), Ducas, Alex — OUT (Lower Back), Flagler, Adam — OUT (Right Fourth Metacarpal; Fracture), Holmgren, Chet — OUT (Right Iliac Wing; Fracture) Topic, Nikola — OUT (Left Knee; Surgery), Williams, Jaylin — OUT (Right Hamstring; Strain)

Bucks: Antetokounmpo, Giannis — PROBABLE (Right Patella; Tendinopathy), Middleton, Khris — PROBABLE (Non-COVID illness), Lillard, Damian — PROBABLE (Calf; Contusion), Robbins, Liam — QUESTIONABLE (Left Ankle; Sprain)

If you want to watch games with us — either tonight or in the future — it’s super easy to sign up:

• First, head over to playback.tv and create an account with your email address
• Then connect and select your NBA League Pass login as your streaming account (sign up for League Pass here first if you don’t have it)
• After that, go to https://www.playback.tv/fearthesword and hit the JOIN button
• Finally, make sure to activate push notifications so you know when we’re going live!

You can join in on all of the action HERE. We will be live shortly after 7:30 pm, and you can also listen in right here on FTS in the player below.