Spurs and Pacers will play twice in Paris for 2024-25 season
The two teams will face off in late January — conspicuously close to the Rodeo Road Trip.
In an announcement that has been eminent in recent months, the NBA has officially announced that the San Antonio Spurs and Indiana Pacers will play two games in Paris next season (France, not Texas). The two games will take place on January 23 and 25, 2025.
The five-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs will face the Indiana Pacers in two regular-season games in Paris in January 2025.
The NBA Paris Games 2025 presented by Tissot will mark the Spurs’ third and fourth games in Paris, having last played a preseason game there in 2006. San Antonio currently features French star and 2023 No. 1 overall draft pick Victor Wembanyama, 2024 NBA Rising Stars participant Jeremy Sochan and 2020 Olympic gold medalist Keldon Johnson.
The Pacers will be playing their first games in France. Indiana currently features 2024 NBA All-Star and USA Basketball Men’s National Team member Tyrese Haliburton, 2019 NBA champion and two-time NBA All-Star Pascal Siakam, and two-time NBA blocks leader Myles Turner.
Paris, we’re coming back… with DOUBLE the action!
Spurs Pacers. January 23 and 25, 2025.
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The NBA had been hinting (and Gregg Popovich seemed to know in various interviews) that the Spurs, featuring French star Victor Wembanyama, would be playing in Paris next season, it was just matter of knowing when and against whom. Because this includes both regular season games against the Pacers, that means the Spurs will not visit Indianapolis next season, nor will the Pacers come to San Antonio.
One thing to note about the timing is it comes just a week before the Rodeo Road Trip typically starts. While considering travel and jetlag recovery time, the Spurs could go from mid-January to late February/early March without a game in San Antonio. They may still squeeze in a home game or two before the RRT begins, but regardless, it will be an exhausting stretch of schedule with few or no true home games for five to six weeks. It will be interesting to see how the 2024-25 schedule shakes out.
Regardless, it should be a lot of fun for the players and definitely exciting for Wemby and Sidy Cissoko (and any other potential French players the Spurs may pick up along the way, such as the draft) to play in front of their home country’s crowd. Do we have any Pounders from across the pond who will attend the games?
