The San Antonio Spurs announced their 2026-27 preseason schedule on Thursday: five games spread across nine days in October, three of them at Frost Bank Center.
San Antonio opens Oct. 8 at home against the Atlanta Hawks at 7 p.m. CT, then plays back-to-back road games at the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 10 (9 p.m. CT) and the Utah Jazz on Oct. 12 (8 p.m. CT). The Spurs host Phoenix again on Oct. 14 and close the exhibition slate against the Sacramento Kings on Oct. 16, both at 7 p.m. CT. Tickets are on sale now; broadcast details will come later.
The opener carries a local hook. Atlanta rookie Kingston Flemings played his high school basketball at Brennan High School in San Antonio, and his first professional trip to the Frost Bank Center comes in the Spurs’ first game of the fall.
What matters more is what those five games are for. San Antonio’s rotation questions this fall are concentrated in one place: the perimeter. Dylan Harper was shut down after two Las Vegas Summer League games this month, averaging 16 points on 10-of-25 shooting before the franchise pulled him. That left the sorting-out of where he fits alongside De’Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle for training camp — and for these five exhibitions, which are now the only competitive reps available before the regular season.
The frontcourt has a similar, smaller version of the same question. Tobias Harris signed a two-year, $31 million deal that became official July 6, and how his minutes are arranged around Victor Wembanyama — who signed a five-year, $252 million rookie-scale extension earlier this month — is a lineup decision the staff has not had to make in a game yet.
My read: the two Phoenix games six days apart are the useful ones. A coaching staff that sees the same opponent twice gets to test an adjustment rather than just an idea, and if San Antonio is going to try Harper in a starting group, the Oct. 14 rematch is the natural place to look for it.
For fantasy purposes, the preseason slate is worth watching mainly for the Harper question. If he opens next to Fox and Castle in October exhibitions, his redraft value climbs meaningfully — a starting guard on a Spurs team with Wembanyama’s gravity is a different asset than a bench scorer. Harris’s arrival is the mild negative for Spurs frontcourt depth pieces, since his two-year deal suggests real rotation minutes rather than a veteran-body signing. Nothing here changes dynasty valuations, but the October lineups are the first hard information since the draft.
