The knockout rounds of the 2025 NBA Cup started on Tuesday, Dec. 9 when the Miami Heat faced the Orlando Magic in an East quarterfinal game.

Derrick White leads Boston to a 146-101 win over Washington by dropping 30 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists in 29 minutes. Jordan Walsh (22 points) and Payton Pritchard (20 points) did their thing in the Celtics’ third straight dub.

Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 117-108 loss to the Orlando Magic (15-10) on Tuesday night at Kia Center in an NBA Cup quarterfinal game to drop its fourth straight game. The Heat (14-11) is now eliminated from the league’s in-season tournament and has some time off before playing its next game on Monday night at home against the Toronto Raptors: The Magic’s success against the Heat this season continues,

Here is the full National Basketball Association schedule for Dec. 5 and how to watch all the games. Or see our sortable NBA schedule to filter by team or division. All times Eastern and accurate as of Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, at 4:21 a.m.

With the NBA Cup quarter-finals and semi-finals on the schedule, there aren’t a ton of games on this week’s slate. Still, there are three games on tonight’s NBA slate that we can dive into. With that,

Tyrese Maxey will cost you a pretty penny, but he is a good player to build a DFS roster around. He has averaged 54.9 Fantasy Points Per Game (FPPG), and he is facing a Milwaukee Bucks team which has an OPRK of 24th.

The Dallas Mavericks face the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025 (12/5/25) at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Okla.

The Nets are moving up the NBA Power Rankings following a 3-1 week during which several key pieces played their best basketball of the season.