Spurs asking league to allow two “home games” in Mexico

Mexico is a developing NBA marketplace, and the Spurs want to capture as considerably of it as attainable.

San Antonio is inquiring for two “international household games” each individual of the up coming two seasons in Mexico, reports Scott Huddleston of the Convey-Information.

The Spurs are wanting to double the variety of “home” games they can play away from the arena. That will need modifications to the Spurs’ nonrelocation settlement with the county. Bexar County commissioners are scheduled to discuss the issue in a shut executive session Tuesday.

Despite the fact that certain places have not been nailed down, Bexar County Decide Nelson Wolff claimed the most up-to-date iteration of proposed changes for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons would permit the Spurs to host two worldwide “home” game titles, maybe in Mexico Town and Monterrey, and two others within 100 miles — Austin or possibly San Marcos…

County commissioners are established to “ensure there is no path” established by the amendment for the Spurs to depart San Antonio, the resource claimed.

The Spurs are not wanting to depart San Antonio.

But they are searching to extend their supporter foundation (as are 29 other NBA franchises), anything CEO R.C. Buford told the Specific-News. The Spurs are making an attempt to tap into a new industry, which could be a wise shift.

The NBA has found exponential intercontinental advancement in latest a long time and that is element of what fuels the improved franchise valuations — the NBA is a significant international business. The Spurs trying to each insert to that and carve out their possess minimal piece of it looks like the type of point the league office environment would again.

For the Spurs, it’s just a subject of generating San Antonio experience at ease with it.