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Spurs Tip-Off

Two hours before tip-off: who plays, what decides it, where to watch. 5 minutes with The host and The analyst, on the nights the Spurs play and never in between.

The voices
HThe host · runs the show
Opens with the one thing that decides tonight, keeps the pace, believes in the team until the numbers say otherwise.
AThe analyst · brings the numbers
Lineups, on/off, cap sheets. Every figure he says is in the brief on this site, or he doesn't say it.
Produced by the club's desk from the data on this site. The host and the analyst are roles, not people: no real person is portrayed, and every number in the show is on the page it links to.
3episodes
14minutes of Spurs talk
Oct 8on the air since

Latest episode

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Tue, Oct 20 · Spurs Tip-Off · 5:27

Harris Out for the Opener, and the Malik Williams Call We Got Wrong

The fan's question of the morning is whether Tobias Harris plays the opener against Oklahoma City, and the answer is no: Out, left calf, estimated return October 23. The two revisit what they said before Phoenix, own the Malik Williams miss, and land on who takes Shai Gilgeous-Alexander with Vassell's extra nine minutes a night as the number of the day.

Transcript, chapters and sources →

How the show works

Spurs Tip-Off is the pregame show, 5 minutes, and it exists only on the nights the Spurs play: the one thing that decides tonight, the opponent and the matchup that settles it, the injury report and who plays, the number of the day, the last game as the reason tonight looks the way it does, when it tips off and where to watch it, and one report from the insiders, always attributed. There is no show on the days without a game: nothing would have happened worth five minutes of your time.

Two voices carry it: the host runs the show, the analyst brings the numbers. They are roles of the Spurs Nightly desk, not people, and they never say a figure that is not on this site. Every episode has a full transcript with timestamps you can click to jump the audio, chapter markers, and the pages behind each number, so a claim in the show can always be checked on the page it comes from.

The episode is published two hours before tip-off, preseason included — after the league posts its official injury report, which is what makes the lineup talk worth anything. Subscribe with the RSS feed above in any podcast app; it is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and YouTube too (the buttons at the top), and short vertical clips go out on the Spurs Nightly social accounts. The archive on this page keeps every episode of the season, newest first.

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