By Jared Weiss | The Athletic, 2026-08-14 07:09:21
NBA赛程于周四公布，对于渴望重返总决赛的圣安东尼奥马刺队而言，这份赛程透露出不少有意思的信息。
马刺的赛季揭幕战可谓赚足眼球，作为NBA最令人兴奋的新兴宿敌对决之一——马刺对阵俄克拉荷马城雷霆——被安排在揭幕战当晚的压轴时段，将于美东时间晚上9:30在NBC进行直播。虽然上赛季两队的交手都扎堆在12月和1月，但本赛季马刺和雷霆直到2月11日才会再次正式碰面，之后要到3月14日才会再次交锋。目前赛程中还少了一场对阵雷霆的主场比赛，因此如果两队在NBA杯中过早出局，他们有可能在12月初的NBA杯弹性调整窗口期再次交手。
这场总决赛对决的重演则要等到圣诞大战，届时马刺和纽约尼克斯队将在麦迪逊广场花园于美东时间中午12点鸣哨开球，为常规赛最盛大的节日拉开帷幕。他们本赛季仅有的另一场交手将于3月7日在圣安东尼奥进行。
马刺在赛季前半段的全美直播场次零星分布，但在赛季后半段，他们几乎每个比赛日都会登上全美直播。
在他们最后的41场比赛中，有25场是全美直播，这一数字高居联盟榜首。圣安东尼奥也是唯一一支拥有两段连续四场全美直播赛程的球队。马刺总共拥有34场全美直播，与卫冕冠军尼克斯、勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James) 和杰伦·布朗 (Jaylen Brown) 的新东家费城76人，以及桑德罗·马穆凯拉什维利 (Sandro Mamukelashvili) 的新东家洛杉矶湖人并列。
在1月10日客场挑战亚特兰大之后，马刺将远渡重洋参加NBA海外常规赛。他们将于14日在巴黎首战对阵新奥尔良鹈鹕，随后前往英国曼彻斯特与鹈鹕再战一场。全明星赛后，马刺将连续第五年迎来惯例的奥斯汀两连主场，分别于中部时间2月26日中午和2月28日中午在ABC直播中迎战孟菲斯灰熊和丹佛掘金。
但本赛季出现了一个时间节点非常微妙的新变化。
马刺将在奥斯汀打三场比赛，其中10月23日在德克萨斯大学的穆迪中心迎战休斯敦火箭，这场比赛恰逢F1大奖赛周末。F1美国大奖赛将于10月25日在奥斯汀举行，这是全美最大的体育盛事之一。此外，德克萨斯大学美式橄榄球队将在那个周六主场迎战密西西比大学。因此，届时城中将名流云集，甚至马修·麦康纳 (Matthew McConaughey) 也可能现身。对于德大校友、现火箭球员凯文·杜兰特 (Kevin Durant) 来说，这也是一个重大时刻，他是该校历史上最伟大的球员之一。
第三场奥斯汀比赛反映了马刺在德州首府持续拓展球迷群体的努力。而在此背景下，由于预计会出现城市财政赤字，圣安东尼奥市长吉娜·奥尔蒂斯·琼斯 (Gina Ortiz Jones) 正努力争取市民重新批准为马刺新球馆项目提供4.89亿美元的资金。圣安东尼奥市议会将于周一开会，就将新球馆资金重新授权加入11月选票进行投票。尽管有人担心，如果无法为新球馆提供资金，可能会为马刺搬迁到奥斯汀打开大门，但马刺CEO RC·布福德 (RC Buford) 周四重申，圣安东尼奥才是“家”。
“我们期待着将我们的社区凝聚在一起，同时吸引奥斯汀、巴黎和曼彻斯特的观众，”布福德在马刺的赛程公布声明中表示。“我们为这个赛季将给球迷带来的精彩感到兴奋，并为能够代表圣安东尼奥而感到自豪。无论马刺在何处踏上赛场，我们都会传播让我们的城市变得特别的精神、文化和社区氛围。”
马刺本赛季的NBA杯赛程看起来会很眼熟。去年11月14日，他们在主场输给了金州勇士队，那是维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 爆发赛季中众多爆红瞬间的第一个，当时他和德雷蒙德·格林 (Draymond Green) 互相对峙，在文班在他头上完成了一记史诗级的空接暴扣之后。今年11月13日，他们将在圣安东尼奥的NBA杯中再次相遇，这场比赛肯定会擦出更多火花。他们还将在1月30日的NBA宿敌周四场连播中交手，所以显然，那个瞬间足以让人们将这视为一段宿敌关系。
随后，马刺将于11月25日客场挑战波特兰，去年他们在杯赛中击败了开拓者。文班亚马在常规赛中从未面对过开拓者，但由于脑震荡缺席一场比赛后，他最终在季后赛首轮带领球队绅士横扫了波特兰。去年，马刺在没有文班亚马的情况下，在丹佛以139-136的惊险胜利结束了小组赛，但今年他们将在主场迎战卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Dončić) 和湖人。重返杯赛决赛将非常艰难，因为他们的小组实力深厚，拥有几支实力不俗的球队。但他们仍将是晋级淘汰赛的热门。
圣安东尼奥在2月份再次面临残酷的客场赛程，4日和6日仅在圣安东尼奥主场对阵魔术和湖人（湖人队的比赛是ABC周六晚上的黄金档对决）。随后，他们将开启为期两周、共六场比赛的“牛仔节客场之旅”。这段旅程始于9日周二在达拉斯的一场NBC直播比赛，然后是11日在Prime上直播的另一场雷霆比赛，13日对阵奥兰多，15日总统日当天在迈阿密对阵扬尼斯·阿德托昆博 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) 和热火的NBC对决，17日客场挑战孟菲斯，紧接着第二天晚上背靠背对阵森林狼，随后进入全明星周末。
去年，马刺教练组和近一半的阵容都去了洛杉矶，但至少教练组不能连续两年执教全明星赛。
马刺在全明星赛后归来，直接前往奥斯汀，然后再次客场挑战丹佛和休斯敦。因此，马刺在圣安东尼奥的两场比赛之间整整相隔了一个月，而尼克斯重返他们夺冠之地的比赛将开启一段短暂的主场赛程，并于3月11日在Prime上对阵勒布朗·詹姆斯和76人的比赛中结束。紧接着是另一场前往俄克拉荷马城的客场之旅，参加周日下午的ABC全美直播，然后是客场挑战休斯敦。
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查看原文：San Antonio Spurs schedule takeaways: A finals rematch on Christmas and an Austin wrinkle
San Antonio Spurs schedule takeaways: A finals rematch on Christmas and an Austin wrinkle
The NBA schedule dropped Thursday and there are some interesting revelations for a San Antonio Spurs team looking to return to the NBA Finals.
The Spurs’ season opens with a splash, as one of the NBA’s most exciting new rivalries — Spurs vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder — gets the late slot on opening night at 9:30 p.m. ET on NBC. While their matchups were bunched up in December and January last season, the Spurs and Thunder don’t officially face each other again until Feb. 11 and then again on March 14. There is still one home game against the Thunder not on the schedule, so it’s possible they could play again in the NBA Cup flex window in early December if the two teams are eliminated early.
The finals rematch will have to wait for Christmas Day, as the Spurs and Knicks will tip-off the biggest day of the regular season with a noon ET start at Madison Square Garden. Their only other matchup of the season will be on March 7 in San Antonio.
The Spurs have a few appearances here and there on national television in the first half of the year and then are on national TV almost every single night in the second half of the season.
Twenty-five of their final 41 games are on national television, the most of any team in the league. San Antonio is the only team to have two stretches of four straight national games. The Spurs have 34 national games in total, tied with the defending-champion Knicks, LeBron James and Jaylen Brown’s new team the Philadelphia 76ers and Sandro Mamukelashvili’s new squad, the Los Angeles Lakers.
After the Spurs visit Atlanta on Jan. 10, they will fly across the pond for the NBA Global Games. They start in Paris for a matchup against the New Orleans Pelicans on the 14th, then head to Manchester, England, for another matchup against the Pelicans. The Spurs will have their usual Austin pair of games after the All-Star break for the fifth year in a row, hosting the Memphis Grizzlies on Feb. 26 and the Denver Nuggets on Feb. 28 on ABC at noon CT.
But there’s a new wrinkle this season that emerges with conspicuous timing.
The Spurs will play in Austin three times, hosting the Houston Rockets on Oct. 23 at the University of Texas’ Moody Center, in a game that coincides with F1 weekend. The F1 United States Grand Prix will take place in Austin on Oct. 25, one of the biggest sporting events in the country. Additionally, the University of Texas football team will host Ole Miss that Saturday. So there will be plenty of bigwigs in town, maybe even Matthew McConaughey. It’s a big moment for Texas alum and current Rocket Kevin Durant, who is one of the greatest players in the school’s history.
The third Austin game reflects the Spurs’ continued push to build a fanbase in the Texas capital and comes against the backdrop of an effort by San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones to ask residents to reapprove $489 million in funding for the Spurs’ new arena project due to a projected city budget deficit. The San Antonio City Council meets Monday to vote on adding the arena funding reauthorization to November’s ballot. While there is concern that failing to fund the new arena could open the door to the Spurs relocating to Austin, Spurs CEO RC Buford reiterated Thursday that San Antonio is “home.”
“We’re looking forward to bringing our community together while reaching audiences in Austin, Paris and Manchester,” Buford said in the Spurs’ schedule release statement. “We’re excited for what this season will bring to our fans and proud to represent San Antonio and share the spirit, culture and community that make our city special everywhere the Spurs take the court.”
The Spurs’ NBA Cup schedule will look familiar this season. Last year, they lost to the Warriors at home on Nov. 14 in what was one of the first of many viral moments of Victor Wembanyama’s breakout season, as he and Draymond Green stared each other down after Wemby dropped an epic alley-oop on his head. They’ll meet in the NBA Cup on Nov. 13 this year back in San Antonio, a game that is sure to send more sparks flying. They also face each other on Jan. 30 in an NBA Rivals week quadruple-header, so apparently, that moment was enough to consider this a rivalry.
Then the Spurs will visit Portland on Nov. 25, where they beat the Blazers in the cup last year. Wembanyama never faced the Blazers during the regular season, but ended up leading a gentleman’s sweep against Portland in the first round after missing a game due to a concussion. The Spurs wrapped up their group play in Denver last year in a thrilling 139-136 win without Wembanyama, but this year they will host Luka Dončić and the Lakers at home. Making it back to the cup final will be tough, as their group is deep with several solid teams. But they will be the favorite to advance to the knockout stage.
San Antonio once again has a brutal road schedule in February, playing just the Magic and Lakers in San Antonio on the 4th and 6th (the Lakers game is an ABC primetime Saturday night matchup). They then embark on a six-game, two-week Rodeo road trip. It starts with an NBC game in Dallas on Tuesday the 9th, then another Thunder game on Prime on the 11th, Orlando on the 13th, a Presidents’ Day NBC matchup against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Heat in Miami on the 15th, a trip to Memphis on the 17th, then a back-to-back the next night against the Timberwolves before heading into the All-Star break.
Last year, the Spurs coaching staff went to Los Angeles, as did nearly half the roster, but the staff at least can’t coach the All-Star Game in consecutive years.
The Spurs return from the break and head straight to Austin before another road trip to Denver and Houston. So the Spurs have a full month between games in San Antonio, with the Knicks’ return to where they won their title kicking off a brief homestand that ends with LeBron James and the 76ers for on Prime on March 11. That’s followed by another trip to Oklahoma City for a Sunday afternoon ABC showcase, then a trip to Houston.
By Jared Weiss, via The Athletic