The certainty is that the edition 2025 will be thelast to Las Vegas for them Final Four della NBA Cup. Decision that the league had already made before the new season, moving the semi-finals at the home of the team with the best record in the cup and postponing the decision on a possible new venue for the final to the following months.
Intentions that have not changed, also given the low turnout of the public at the games at the T-Mobile Arena also for two semi-finals between Spurs and Thunder and Knicks and Magic. The Las Vegas crowd didn’t respond as expected and after three years it has time for a new home for the NBA Cupwhile the league continues its complicated relationship with the gambling capital, which has for years been indicated as the home of the next expansion NBA franchise but which is slow in arriving. And which for the moment seems to have come out of Adam Silver’s “geostrategic” plans.
If Las Vegas didn’t work, it’s unlikely that the neutral court experiment could work elsewhere from an NBA perspective. Choosing a large city and a large market, perhaps from year to year between Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco or Toronto could be a solution, although the best remedy would probably be to also play the final on the home court of the team with the best record in the NBA Cup, to guarantee at least the presence of an “interested” public.
