NBA schedule today, Friday, November 6: nine NBA Cup games, 76ers-Cavaliers and Blazers-Lakers on Prime, with Cairo tip times

Friday, November 6, opens Emirates NBA Cup group play with nine games and no teams idle from Thursday’s two-game night. Tips start at 7 p.m. ET, 2 a.m. Saturday in Cairo, and two Prime Video windows headline the card: Philadelphia at Cleveland at 7:30 p.m. ET and Portland at the Lakers at 10 p.m. ET. Our weekend schedule already lists every tip through Monday; this preview updates records after Wednesday’s slate and flags the rematch and injury notes for Friday only.

Friday’s nine Cup games at a glance

Game	Tip (ET, Fri)	Tip (Cairo)	US TV
Washington Wizards at Atlanta Hawks	7:00 p.m.	2:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV
Boston Celtics at Charlotte Hornets	7:00 p.m.	2:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV
Philadelphia 76ers at Cleveland Cavaliers	7:30 p.m.	2:30 a.m. Sat	Prime Video
Utah Jazz at Dallas Mavericks	8:00 p.m.	3:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV
Oklahoma City Thunder at Memphis Grizzlies	8:00 p.m.	3:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV
Toronto Raptors at Milwaukee Bucks	8:00 p.m.	3:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV
Minnesota Timberwolves at New Orleans Pelicans	8:00 p.m.	3:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV
Portland Trail Blazers at Los Angeles Lakers	10:00 p.m.	5:00 a.m. Sat	Prime Video
San Antonio Spurs at Sacramento Kings	10:00 p.m.	5:00 a.m. Sat	Local TV

Early window: rematch in Atlanta, Celtics in Charlotte, 76ers on Prime

Washington, 4-4, visits Atlanta after the Hawks, 5-4, beat the Wizards 120-105 on Wednesday in the capital, so the clubs close a home-and-home in Cup group play at 7 p.m. ET. Boston, 6-2, visits Charlotte, 3-6, in the other 7 p.m. tip after the Celtics beat Milwaukee on Wednesday.

Philadelphia, 8-1, shares the league’s best record and visits Cleveland, 4-4, at 7:30 p.m. ET on Prime Video. Joel Embiid has been playing through right foot plantar fasciitis with a minutes plan that still stretched to 33 minutes in Detroit; we have his comments on the painful foot. The Cavaliers are on the second night of a road-to-home turn after losing at Oklahoma City on Wednesday. Game Center.

Eight o’clock Cup cluster

Four games tip at 8 p.m. ET, 3 a.m. Saturday in Cairo. Utah, 1-7, visits Dallas, 4-4. Oklahoma City, 6-2, visits Memphis, 6-2, a meeting of two of the West’s stronger early records. Toronto, 4-4, visits Milwaukee, 1-7, and Minnesota, 6-3, visits New Orleans, 4-4, after both clubs won at home on Wednesday. Game Center.

Late Prime: Blazers at Lakers, Spurs at Kings

Portland, 6-1, visits the Lakers, 7-2, at 10 p.m. ET on Prime Video in West group play, 5 a.m. Saturday in Cairo, after both sides won on Wednesday (Portland at Phoenix, Los Angeles at Sacramento). San Antonio, 6-2, visits Sacramento, 1-7, in the other late tip, with Victor Wembanyama coming off a 52-point, 24-rebound, eight-block night against Dallas; read the Spurs career night. Game Center.

What comes next

Thursday’s two-game slate (Orlando at Phoenix and Miami at Golden State) tips later tonight in Cairo and does not feed into Friday’s Cup card. Full injury lists for Friday post during the day on the league report, so check our injuries page for changes, and use the weekend schedule for Saturday’s Mexico City Nuggets-Pacers game and the rest of the Nov. 6-9 tips. Our schedule page carries every game with Eastern and Cairo tip times.