Spurs Looking To Play More Home Games Outside Of San Antonio

[RealGM Wiretap]

The San Antonio Spurs are looking to expand their regional reach by playing more home games outside of their home arena. The Spurs have looked into hosting games in Mexico, as well as other parts of Texas.

The Spurs are proposing to play up to four games a year away from San Antonio. Locations could include Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico, as well as Austin and San Marcos Texas.

Currently, the Spurs can play two home games per season outside of San Antonio, per their agreement with their home county of Bexar. In order to increase that amount, they'd need to approval from Bexar County, due to the non-relocation agreement the Spurs have with the county.

Via Scott Huddleston/San Antonio Express-News

[MartinToVaught]

Oof. It's rarely a good sign when a team starts "expanding their reach" by playing home games elsewhere - see: the Cincinnati Royals' "home games" in Omaha, the Expos' San Juan experiment, etc.

Doesn't sound like the Spurs will be in San Antonio for much longer. This screams of testing the waters for an eventual relocation to Austin.

[Evolution999]

Hardly surprisng. Spurs probably have a large mexican fan base. I remember when i vacationed there many years ago. The mexican influence from architecture to texmex cuisine was everywhere. More than one local would tell us to make no mistake about it: that it was mexico just not offically annexed. Fun place to visit. we plan on going back in the future.

[TimeisIllmatic]

Oof. It's rarely a good sign when a team starts "expanding their reach" by playing home games elsewhere - see: the Cincinnati Royals' "home games" in Omaha, the Expos' San Juan experiment, etc.

Doesn't sound like the Spurs will be in San Antonio for much longer. This screams of testing the waters for an eventual relocation to Austin.

Yeah Austin sounds a strong possibility especially since the G League team is there too anyways