An official crowd of 68,323 was in attendance as the San Antonio Spurs and the Golden State Warriors made history with their clash at the Spurs’ former home arena, the Alamodome.
Tre Jones led the Spurs in scoring with 21 points, while Jordan Poole score 25 points off the bench and Kevon Looney grabbed 10 rebounds alongside 14 points for the Warriors.
Although the game ended in a 144-113 blowout victory for the Warriors to break a three-game losing streak, it was not the main talk of the night as the West Conference match up between the two basketball giants broke the 25-year NBA single-game attendance record.
Spurs had originally announced that the record had been broken on Wednesday, January 11, after they sold about 63,592 tickets for the game, but a further 4,731 tickets were sold due to the availability of standing room only tickets.
The NBA's new single-game attendance record.
68,323 at the Alamodome tonight 🙌 pic.twitter.com/bkF4W1tdsT
— NBA (@NBA) January 14, 2023
The Friday night matchup between Spurs and Warriors was only the fourth NBA game with an attendance of over 50,000.
The Western Conference clash shattered the record set in a game between the Chicago Bulls and the Atlanta Hawks on March 27, 1998, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
The game drew a then-NBA regular-season record crowd of 62,046 people to see arguably the greatest player in basketball, Michael Jordan, and his high-flying Bulls teammates.
Before then, the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, had the two highest attendance record in the NBA, as a crowd of 52,745 people watched the Detroit Pistons take on the Philadelphia 76ers in February 1987.
The Silverdome also played host to a crowd of 61,983 for a game between the Boston Celtics and the Pistons in January 1988, a record that stood until the game at the Georgia Dome in 1998.
The former record for an NBA game at the Alamodome is 39,554 on June 18, 1999, when the New York Knicks visited the San Antonio Spurs for Game 2 of the 1999 NBA Finals series, which the Spurs won 4-1.
The Spurs played in the Alamodome from 1993 through 2002 before moving into their current arena, the AT&T Center.
Record. Breaking. Atmosphere.
The official attendance tonight for Spurs-Warriors in the Alamodome is 68,323 😱 pic.twitter.com/hjQl75f6Dv
— NBA (@NBA) January 14, 2023
