{"id":5924,"date":"2023-08-21T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/san-antonio-officials-began-talks-with-spurs-on-downtown-arena-before-nba-draft-lottery\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:09:08","slug":"san-antonio-officials-began-talks-with-spurs-on-downtown-arena-before-nba-draft-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/21\/san-antonio-officials-began-talks-with-spurs-on-downtown-arena-before-nba-draft-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio officials began talks with Spurs on downtown arena before NBA draft lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         San Antonio city leaders approached Spurs officials about building a new downtown arena months before the franchise landed the No. 1 NBA draft pick, the Express-News reports,\u00a0citing text messages between the city and team management. The first confirmed mention of a possible downtown relocation followed the team&#8217;s nationally televised matchup against the Golden State Warriors at the Alamodome, the daily reports. Following the Jan. 13 game, Spurs general counsel Bobby Perez texted city manager Erik Walsh, writing, &#8220;We need more games downtown,&#8221; according to messages obtained by the Express-News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio city leaders approached Spurs officials about building a new downtown arena months before the franchise landed the No. 1 NBA draft pick, the Express-News reports,\u00a0citing text messages between the city and team management. The first confirmed mention of a possible downtown relocation followed the team&#8217;s nationally televised matchup against the Golden State Warriors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}