Victor Wembanyama and a hungry San Antonio squad aim to redeem their heartbreaking championship collapse through high-stakes regular season clashes at Madison Square Garden and Frost Bank Center.
NEW YORK - The 2026-27 NBA season schedule is officially set, and tucked into the release, we have our dates for the San Antonio Spurs' rematches with the New York Knicks.
If you've followed along with our coverage here at Spurs Roundtable, you'd already know that the Spurs had a Christmas Day revenge game against the Knicks on the calendar, courtesy of our own Grant Afseth.
That bout is slated to take place at Madison Square Garden ... which makes sense. Why not have an NBA Finals rematch on Christmas Day at The Mecca?
But that's not the only meeting between the 2026 NBA Finals participants that will be taking place in the regular season.
On Sunday, March 7, 2027, the Knicks will travel to San Antonio to take on the Spurs at the Frost Bank Center.
This contest will mark the opener of a three-game homestand for Victor Wembanyama and company, which sees the Spurs take on the up-and-coming Washington Wizards (March 9) and title-hopeful Philadelphia 76ers (March 11) in their ensuing matchups. They'll travel to Oklahoma City to take on the Thunder just three days following the stretch.
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The San Antonio Spurs will start their 2026-27 season with the home-court advantage, according to the schedule released by the NBA on Thursday.
They’ll open the regular season at the Frost Bank Center against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Oct. 20.
In Texas? The first rivalry game will be against the Houston Rockets on Oct. 23. The Spurs will head north the very next day to meet their other Texas rival – the Dallas Mavericks.
Their final regular season game is scheduled for April 11 when the Portland Trail Blazers travel to San Antonio.
They all matter. But ...
For a young squad hungry to make it back to basketball's grandest stage, both clashes with the Knicks will not only be highly anticipated but also vastly important.
Many past and present members from the Spurs organization have spoken at length to decipher what exactly went wrong during the five-game Finals series against New York.
Former associate head coach Sean Sweeney has been among them.
Sweeney recently admitted he's lost plenty of sleep trying to understand how the series slipped away, pointing toward a combination of attrition, bad luck and mistakes rather than simply blaming San Antonio's youth.
After all, this was a Spurs team that had already overcome a 3-2 deficit against the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder and won Game 7 on the road just to reach the Finals.
Then came New York.
San Antonio held a double-digit lead in every game of the series and still lost four of them.
Sweeney isn't alone in viewing the series as something San Antonio allowed to escape.
Dylan Harper has been even more direct.
"I feel like we all have that one team goal that we felt like that we should have had last year," Harper said. "I feel like that's really the only thing that's on everyone's mind."
And the young guard already has an idea of where things went wrong.
"I think the biggest thing is probably closing out games, and I think just knowing exactly what we're gonna do in certain times," Harper said.
That makes San Antonio's two meetings with New York considerably more interesting than your typical regular-season rematches.
No victory in December or March can change who raised the Larry O'Brien Trophy in June.
But if the Spurs believe they surrendered a championship they were capable of winning, they'll now get two opportunities to measure their growth against the team that showed them exactly what they still needed to learn.
Christmas Day comes first.
Then New York comes to San Antonio on March 7.
Circle both dates.
