NBA Cup will finish its group stage component on Tuesday with 11 games. Among those 11 games, only three are completely devoid of stakes. The 76ers and Hornets, Wizards and Cavaliers, and 76ers and Pacers have all been mathematically eliminated from advancing to the knockout stage.

Milwaukee quietly has the sixth-best half-court defense. The Pistons are 0-5 SU and 1-3-1 ATS vs. top-10 half-court defenses this season. The Bucks are also up to 10th in half-court offense. The Pistons have fared better vs. top-10 half-court offenses, with Milwaukee ninth. But the margin here is tough with a spread of just over one possession.

The Knicks keep alternating between taking steps forward and backward. They narrowly defeated the lowly Hornets last Friday after Jalen Brunson was forced to carry a heavy load for the offense. They followed that up with a dominant win over the depleted Pelicans,