By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-11-05 13:55:01
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2025年10月27日，星期一，圣安东尼奥马刺队在主场霜冻银行中心以121-103击败多伦多猛龙队。赛后，当斯蒂芬·卡斯尔回答记者提问时，他的队友，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) (24号) 正拍着他的肩膀。卡斯尔在本场比赛中贡献了22分。
洛杉矶电——当被问及对贝尔县选民投票批准为马刺队新球馆提供资金的计划有何反应时，斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 的第一反应是灿烂的笑容和两个简单的词。
“天大的好消息，”这位2025年NBA年度最佳新秀在周三上午说道。
据《圣安东尼奥快报》报道，周二选举的非官方结果显示，约52%的选民投票同意动用最高3.11亿美元的县酒店和汽车租赁税款，以帮助支付将在Hemisfair建造的一座价值13亿美元的新球馆。
“这足以表明这座城市有多么支持我们，以及他们对我们的城市有多么在乎，”卡斯尔在为周三晚间对阵湖人队的比赛做准备、于Crypto.com中心进行走场训练后说道。
公共财政将覆盖球馆建设成本的61.5%。市政府已同意出资最高4.89亿美元，资金将来源于其在州酒店税中的分成、球馆周边新开发项目产生的房产税收入以及这些开发项目的土地租金。
马刺队已承诺出资5亿美元，并承担任何成本超支。
卡斯尔指出，马刺队目前的主场——霜冻银行中心，也将从周二的选举结果中受益。
获得56%选民支持的A提案，将动用最高1.92亿美元的县税收资金，用于翻新霜冻银行中心、弗里曼体育馆及周边设施，以便圣安东尼奥牛仔竞技节能在此举办全年的西部主题活动。
“这将会把很多人凝聚在一起，”卡斯尔说。“我为此感到高兴。”
一座新球馆的承诺，加上球队已拥有的顶级训练设施，可能会在招募自由球员方面对马刺队有所帮助。
“如果我听到‘新球馆’这个词，再结合我们已有的阵容和所有年轻天赋，这绝对会让人眼前一亮，”卡斯尔说道。
特约撰稿人莫莉·史密斯 (Molly Smith) 和索尔·平克 (Saul Pink) 对本报道亦有贡献。
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Spurs’ Stephon Castle hails passage of arena vote as ‘great news’
San Antonio Spurs guard Devin Vassell (24) pats his teammate Stephon Castle’s shoulders as Castle answers questions after their Spurs’ victory over the Toronto Raptors at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. Castle scored 22 points in the Spurs’ 121-103 win.
LOS ANGELES — Stephon Castle’s first comment when asked for his reaction to Bexar County voters approving a plan to finance a new arena for the Spurs consisted of just two words and a broad smile.
“Great news,” the 2025 NBA Rookie of the Year said Wednesday morning.
About 52% of voters approved devoting up to $311 million in county hotel and rental car tax dollars to help pay for a new $1.3 billion arena to be built at Hemisfair, according to unofficial election results from Tuesday’s election, per the San Antonio Express-News.
“It just shows how much the city is behind us and how much they care for our city,” Castle said after a walkthrough at Crypto.com Arena in preparation for the Spurs’ game against the Lakers on Wednesday night.
Public financing will cover 61.5% of the arena’s construction costs. The city has agreed to contribute up to $489 million through a combination of its share of state hotel taxes, property tax revenue from new development around the arena and ground leases for that development.
The Spurs have promised to contribute $500 million and cover cost overruns.
Castle noted the Frost Bank Center, the Spurs’ current home, will also benefit from the results of Tuesday’s election.
Prop A, which 56% of the voters approved, will devote up to $192 million in county tax dollars to renovate the Frost Bank Center, the Freeman Coliseum and surrounding facilities so the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo can host year-round Western events.
“It’s going to bring a lot of people together,” Castle said. “I’m happy about it.”
The promise of a new arena, in addition to the state-of-the-art practice facility they already have, could help the Spurs with recruiting free agents.
“If I hear a ‘new arena,’ and (with) the team we already have, with all the young talent we got, it’s definitely eye opening,” Castle said.
Staff writers Molly Smith and Saul Pink contributed to this story.
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News