For many years now, the San Antonio Spurs have not been a major force in the NBA after Tim Duncan retired. Even the 2022-2023 season will see them accept as many losses as possible in exchange for the opportunity to own Victor Wembanyama in the 2023 NBA Draft

Alamodome is a stadium with a domed roof, serving many outdoor and indoor sports with a maximum capacity of up to 72,000 seats.

However, they were just on the way to breaking a record in the NBA, becoming the team with the largest number of spectators at the stadium. Specifically, a total of 64,387 tickets to attend the match between San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors on the morning of January 14 (Vietnam time) have been sold out.

This is extremely unusual, because the capacity of a basketball arena only ranges from 15,000 to 20,000 seats in the NBA. The reason for this incident is that the match between the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors was not held at the AT&T Center as usual, but was moved to the Alamodome stadium.

The Alamodome is a domed multi-purpose stadium located in San Antonio. The stadium was inaugurated in 1993 with a construction price of 186 million USD at that time.

As a multi-purpose stadium, the Alamodome accommodates a wide variety of sports, including soccer, football, baseball and major music events. With the dome system, the Alamodome is also ready to host indoor sports and even the original design of the Alamodome was to serve basketball matches.

The Alamodome installed the floor for the San Antonio Spurs before their game against the Golden State Warriors

The capacity of Alamodome stadium is 64,000 seats, with the ability to expand to 72,000 seats if additional seats are installed for indoor sports. Historically, this was also the home field of the San Antonio Spurs from 1993 until 2002, when they moved to the current AT&T Center.

Normally, the San Antonio Spurs will remove the top row of seats during NBA matches and only open a limited portion during high-profile matches in the Playoffs. This is also the first time, San Antonio Spurs decided to open all the stands, helping them achieve a record number of spectators coming to the stadium.

In fact, the attraction of this match largely comes from the Golden State Warriors and superstar Stephen Curry. NBA fans always want to see the 34-year-old superstar play in the flesh and the audience in San Antonio is no exception.

For the players of the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, they have never played before such a record audience. Stephen Curry is the only person to experience a similar feeling, when he played in front of 57,000 spectators in Davidson’s match against Kansas in 2008 in the NCAA Division I tournament.

Stephen Curry’s attraction in matches against the San Antonio Spurs is huge

The San Antonio Spurs have only had 13 wins after 42 matches this season. However, this result will not be too important to them, as the Texas team proactively gives up this season to rebuild their force from the NBA Draft.

Meanwhile, the Golden State Warriors also played not too stable. Stephen Curry and his teammates have a record of 20 wins and 21 losses, as well as a miserable away record of 3 wins after 19 matches.