Overview
- Commissioners voted 4-0 on Tuesday, with one abstention, to let the Spurs play up to four regular-season home games away from the county-owned Frost Bank Center in each of the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons.
- The approved amendment does not name where those games must be played and explicitly bars using the allowance for playoff games.
- The Spurs already have two regular-season games scheduled in January 2027 in Paris and Manchester, and the team expects one of those to count as a Spurs home game under the new flexibility.
- Speakers and one commissioner raised concerns about lost local spending, citing a Spurs study that estimates about $3.8 million in direct local spending per home game, and county officials stressed they will monitor financial impacts under existing revenue-sharing terms.
- The decision comes as city and county negotiations proceed on a $1.3 billion Hemisfair arena plan and as the Spurs’ current non-relocation lease with the county runs through 2032.