SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs won’t have to wait long for a rematch with the team they eliminated on their way to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs will host Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Oct. 20, as part of NBC Sports’ opening-day tripleheader for the 2026-27 NBA season.<\/p>\n
The game tips off at 8:30 p.m. CT at Frost Bank Center and will air nationally on News 4 and Peacock.<\/p>\n
The matchup is being billed as \u201cGame 8\u201d after San Antonio defeated Oklahoma City in a dramatic seven-game Western Conference Finals last season, sending the Spurs to the NBA Finals for the first time in 12 years.<\/p>\n
That series helped turn a matchup between two of the Western Conference’s youngest contenders into one of the NBA’s emerging rivalries.<\/p>\n
It also puts two of the league’s biggest stars back on the same floor.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama enters the season as the reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year, while Gilgeous-Alexander is coming off his second consecutive NBA MVP award.<\/p>\n
The Spurs and Thunder were also two of only three teams to win at least 60 games during the 2025-26 regular season.<\/p>\n
The Spurs-Thunder showdown will close out a historic opening day for NBC. It will mark the first time a network has broadcast three NBA Tip-Off games in one day.<\/p>\n
Boston and Detroit begin the tripleheader at 2 p.m. CT, followed by Philadelphia and defending NBA champion New York at 6 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
NBC Sports is expected to release its full 2026-27 NBA regular-season broadcast schedule on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Spurs won’t have to wait long for a rematch with the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-403623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}