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Jeremy Sochan, Victory Wembanyama, Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson (left to proper) pose for a photograph in the course of the San Antonio Spurs’ 2023 Media Day occasion.
For the 2024-2025 season, the San Antonio Spurs will play the workforce’s highest variety of nationally televised video games in at the least three years.
The Silver and Black are scheduled for 21 video games that may obtain U.S.-wide broadcast, per the workforce’s common season schedule launched Thursday. That is up from 2022, when the workforce solely performed in 4 nationally televised video games.
The common season will get underway at 6:30 p.m. CST on Oct. 24 in matchup in opposition to Luka Doncic and the Western Convention Champion Mavericks in Dallas. That recreation will air on TNT.
Different nationally televised highlights from the season embody three video games in opposition to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, two in opposition to the reigning 18-time NBA Champion Boston Celtics and a Christmas Day matinee in opposition to the New York Knicks at Madison Sq. Backyard.
Spurs’ Nov. 15 In-Season Match opener in opposition to LeBron James and the Lakers on the Frost Financial institution Heart may even be carried on ESPN.
To the displeasure of some followers on social media, three of the Spurs’ “house video games” will not be performed inside San Antonio metropolis limits.
As an alternative, the Silver and Black will play two of these at Austin’s Moody Heart, competing Feb. 20 in opposition to the Phoenix Suns and Feb. 21 in opposition to the Detroit Pistons as a part of the annual I-35 Collection. The Suns matchup can be carried on TNT.
The opposite house recreation not being performed within the Alamo Metropolis can be in Victor Wembanyama’s hometown of Paris in opposition to the Indiana Pacers as a part of the NBA’s Paris Video games. That Jan. 25 contest will air on ESPN.
The Spurs additionally will play the Indiana Pacers in Paris on Jan. 23 in a recreation airing on NBA TV.
The Spurs’ expanded TV attain seems to be a direct results of the workforce lassoing Wembanyama, a No. 1 draft choose, final season. Within the 7-foot-3 phenom’s rookie 12 months, the workforce’s variety of nationally televised video games shot as much as 19 from 4.
Single-game tickets for the Spur’s 2024-25 common season recreation are on sale now.
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