The NBA has its own MVP and All-Tournament team for the NBA Cup, but that won't stop us from handing out our own (slightly different) honors here at Bleacher Report.

Based on individual production, how far each player's team went and plenty of subjectivity, we've selected the 10 best players from this year's event.

And unlike the official team, we're also using the old-school positional classifications. So, you'll see two guards, two forwards and centers for each group of five.

After a competitive, talent-rich edition of the 2024 NBA Cup, it wasn't easy to sort through all the stars most deserving of some additional praise, but that's exactly what we did.

Second Team

Guard: Luka Dončić

During four Cup games, Luka's individual offensive production wasn't quite as gaudy as we've gotten used to from him. He averaged 27.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists, but that's still huge relative to the rest of the league. And in those four games, he also added a whopping average of 3.5 steals.

Guard: De'Aaron Fox

If his team hadn't gone 1-3 during group play, Fox may have had an argument for First Team honors. In his four Cup appearances, he put up 33.3 points, 6.5 assists and 3.0 threes, while shooting 41.4 percent from deep.

Forward: Jayson Tatum

The Boston Celtics went 3-1 in the in-season tournament, and Tatum led them with 26.0 points, 10.3 rebounds and 7.0 assists. His outside shot betrayed him a bit in those games (he shot 32.4 percent from deep), but his rebounding and playmaking made up for that.

Forward: Jalen Johnson

The Atlanta Hawks' Jalen Johnson is authoring one of the most entertaining breakouts of this season, and his efforts were a big part of the team's trip to Las Vegas for the Cup semifinals. The budding 6'9" playmaker averaged 19.5 points, 12.0 rebounds, 6.7 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.2 steals in four games.

Center: Nikola Jokić

His team failed to make the knockout round, and Jokić only played in two Cup games, but he had the league's highest averages for points per game and fantasy points per game in this tournament. He also had a triple-double in one of those contests and averaged 35.5 points, 13.5 rebounds, 8.0 assists, 2.5 steals and 2.5 threes overall.

First Team Guard: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander ended his NBA Cup run with a dud. He had 21 points on 24 shots, three turnovers and two assists. And he was minus-17 in a 16-point loss in the championship game.

But even with that little stain on his 2024 Cup resume, SGA averaged 30.6 points, 5.9 assists, 3.0 threes and 2.6 steals. And it was his generally metronome-like production that helped the Thunder make it as far as they did.

Shai's ability to get to his spots in the mid-range, draw fouls and create opportunities for himself and others was stymied on Tuesday, but Milwaukee was the only team in the Cup able to do that.

First Team Guard: Damian Lillard

Damian Lillard's age, inconsistency and struggles acclimating to his new team were running storylines through much of 2023-24. And when the Bucks were eliminated after the first round of the playoffs, there were questions about the long-term viability of Milwaukee's aging core.

Those came back in full force in 2024-25, when the Bucks started the campaign 2-8.

But after he dropped 23 points in the championship game on Tuesday, Lillard finished with Cup averages of 27.3 points, 8.3 assists and 4.7 threes, while shooting 45.9 percent from deep. And he's clearly been Milwaukee's second-best player in a 12-3 run that's lasted over a month.

First Team Forward: Franz Wagner

Before an oblique injury knocked Franz Wagner out of the Orlando Magic's rotation, he was playing like one of the 5-10 best players in the NBA. And his performance in Cup games were not a departure from that trend.

Orlando was 3-1 in the four games he played, and Wagner averaged 30.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 2.8 threes and 2.5 steals.

In the wake of Paolo Banchero's own oblique-injury-induced absence, Wagner took over as his team's alpha scorer, playmaker and wing defender. And he was thriving while melding all three of those roles together.

His unfortunate injury will knock him out of contention for end-of-year honors, but if Wagner keeps playing like he was in 2024-25, his All-NBA nods won't be limited to the Cup for much longer.

First Team Forward: Giannis Antetokounmpo

After he went for 26 points, 19 rebounds, 10 assists, three blocks and two steals in Tuesday's Cup championship game, the tournament MVP nod felt like a foregone conclusion.

The Bucks went 7-0 in the in-season tournament, and that honor had to go to Giannis Antetokounmpo.

He finished with Cup averages of 30.5 points, 10.2 rebounds, 7.7 assists, 2.8 blocks and 1.2 steals. He shot 66.7 percent from the field. And he had some of the loudest highlights of the tournament, including a clutch block on an attempted alley-oop to Clint Capela.

This might be the most obvious inclusion in this particular slideshow, and the talk of Giannis is only just beginning.

A performance like Tuesday's (as well as what he did in the rest of the Cup) is going to launch Antetokounmpo right to the heart of the season-long MVP conversation.

First Team Center: Anthony Davis

It's been an up-and-down season for the Los Angeles Lakers, and the in-season tournament was no exception for them.

After winning the inaugural version of the event last year, L.A. went 2-2 in the 2024 Cup and missed the knockout round.

But it's tough to fault Anthony Davis for that.

In those four games, AD averaged 26.5 points, 13.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.5 blocks and 1.3 steals. And he continued to cement himself as L.A.'s best player.

LeBron James is obviously still the lead playmaker, but Davis is (by a wide margin) his favorite target. And without AD's defense, the Lakers' season would be a lot more down than up.