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SAN ANTONIO (Sep. 11, 2023) –&nbsp;The San Antonio Spurs today announced that the team has waived guard Cameron Payne.

Payne was acquired on July 17, along with a 2025 second round pick (via New Orleans) and cash considerations, from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for a protected second round pick in 2024.

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San Antonio Waives Cameron Payne

NEW YORK,&nbsp;Aug. 15, 2023 – The NBA today released its&nbsp;complete game schedule&nbsp;and&nbsp;national television matchups&nbsp;for Group Play of the inaugural&nbsp;NBA In-Season Tournament, which will tip off on Friday, Nov. 3 during the 2023-24 regular season.

The complete game schedule and national broadcast schedule for the 2023-24 regular season will be announced on Thursday, Aug. 17.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Group Play games, the first of two stages in the In-Season Tournament, will take place on Tuesdays and Fridays in November.&nbsp; On these “Tournament Nights,” the only NBA games scheduled will be Group Play games.&nbsp;&nbsp;

ESPN and TNT will combine to air 14 games during Group Play.&nbsp; The first Tournament Night (Nov. 3) will feature a doubleheader on ESPN as the New York Knicks visit the Milwaukee Bucks (7:30 p.m. ET) and the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets host the Dallas Mavericks (10 p.m. ET).&nbsp; TNT will begin its Group Play broadcasts on Tuesday, Nov. 14, when the San Antonio Spurs visit the Oklahoma City Thunder (7:30 p.m. ET) and the Nuggets take on the LA Clippers in Denver (10 p.m. ET).&nbsp;&nbsp;

The national television schedule for Group Play includes three rematches from the 2023 NBA Playoffs.&nbsp; The reigning Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat will visit the Knicks on Friday, Nov. 24 (7:30 p.m. ET/ESPN) and host the Bucks on Tuesday, Nov. 28 (7:30 p.m. ET/TNT), and the Golden State Warriors will visit the Sacramento Kings on Nov. 28 (10 p.m. ET/TNT).

NBA TV’s live game coverage of Group Play will consist of a doubleheader on Friday, Nov. 24, with the Orlando Magic hosting the Boston Celtics (2:30 p.m. ET) and the Phoenix Suns visiting the Memphis Grizzlies (5 p.m. ET).&nbsp;

Each team will play four designated Group Play games from Nov. 3-28 – one game against each opponent in its group, with two games at home and two games on the road.&nbsp; As&nbsp;previously announced, all 30 teams have been randomly drawn into groups of five within their conference based on win-loss records from the 2022-23 regular season.&nbsp; The groups are below:

Eight teams (four per conference) will advance from Group Play into the second stage of the In-Season Tournament, the Knockout Rounds.&nbsp; The advancing teams will be the six group winners and two “wild cards” (the team from each conference with the best record in Group Play games that finished second in its group).&nbsp; The tiebreaker procedures are available&nbsp;here.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Knockout Rounds will consist of single-elimination games in the Quarterfinals (Monday, Dec. 4 and Tuesday, Dec. 5), Semifinals (Thursday, Dec. 7) and Championship (Saturday, Dec. 9).&nbsp; The national broadcast schedule for the Knockout Rounds will be announced at a later date.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Quarterfinals will be played in NBA team markets.&nbsp; The Semifinals and Championship will take place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with tickets on sale now at&nbsp;NBAEvents.com.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The 67 games across both stages of the In-Season Tournament will count toward the regular-season standings except the Championship.&nbsp; Each team will continue to play 82 regular-season games in the 2023-24 season, including those games that are part of Group Play and the Knockout Rounds.

Each of the 22 teams that do not advance to the Quarterfinals of the In-Season Tournament will be assigned two regular-season games (one home game and one away game) that will be played on Wednesday, Dec. 6 and Friday, Dec. 8.&nbsp; A formulaic approach will determine the matchups for these 22 games using the Group Play standings in each conference (fifth through 15th).

Two of the 22 games will be scheduled cross-conference because there will be an odd number of teams in each conference that do not advance to the Quarterfinals.&nbsp; These cross-conference games will be scheduled between bottom-finishing teams in Group Play subject to travel constraints, and no team will play more than one of its two games cross-conference.&nbsp; The other 20 games will be scheduled within conference featuring teams that are otherwise scheduled to play each other three times over the course of the season wherever possible.

The losing teams in the Quarterfinals in each conference will play each other in a regular-season game on Dec. 8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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NBA Announces Group Play Schedule For Inaugural In-Season Tournament

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Tony Parker | 2023 Naismith Hall of Fame Press Conference

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Gregg Popovich | 2023 Naismith Hall of Fame Press Conference

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Pau Gasol | 2023 Naismith Hall of Fame Press Conference

SAN ANTONIO (July 27, 2023)&nbsp;– The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have re-signed forward Sandro Mamukelashvili. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not announced.&nbsp;

Mamukelashvili, 6-10/240, was originally signed by the Spurs on March 3, 2023. In 19 games for the Silver and Black, he averaged 10.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 23.3 minutes.&nbsp;

Prior to joining the Spurs, Mamukelashvili was on a two-way contract with the Milwaukee Bucks. He appeared in 24 games with the Bucks and averaged 2.4 points and 2.3 rebounds in 9.0 minutes. In 11 games with the Bucks G League affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd, he averaged 19.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 30.6 minutes.

The Tbilisi, Georgia native was selected in the second round of the 2021 NBA Draft (54th overall) by the Indiana Pacers before being traded to Milwaukee on draft night. Prior to the NBA, Mamukelashvili spent four seasons at Seton Hall and in a total of 104 games (68 starts), the 2021 Big East Player of the Year averaged 9.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 23.7 minutes.

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Spurs Re-Sign Sandro Mamukelashvili

SAN ANTONIO&nbsp;(July 27, 2023) –&nbsp;The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have signed&nbsp;forward&nbsp;Sidy Cissoko. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not announced.

Cissoko, 6-7/225, was drafted by the Spurs with the 44th&nbsp;overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. In one season with G League Ignite, he averaged 12.8 points, 3.5 assists and 2.8 rebounds in 29.3 minutes, starting in all 28 regular season games.&nbsp;He recorded eight games with 20-plus points on his way to a 2023 Rising Stars Challenge selection at NBA All-Star weekend and becoming one of 24 players named to the inaugural G League Next Up Game.

In five games with San Antonio in the NBA 2K24 Las Vegas Summer League, Cissoko&nbsp;averaged 5.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 23.8 minutes. The Paris, France native made his professional debut in 2021 with Baskonia in the Spanish ACB League&nbsp;before being loaned out to Baskonia's satellite club,&nbsp;Iraurgi SB, in the second-tier&nbsp;LEB Oro&nbsp;where he averaged 10.8 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 32 games.&nbsp;Cissoko was named to the World Select Team at the 2022 Nike Hoop Summit. In the same year, he represented France at the FIBA U-18 European Championship.

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Spurs Sign 2023 Second Round Draft Pick Sidy Cissoko

SAN ANTONIO (July 25, 2023) –&nbsp;The San Antonio Spurs today announced that they have re-signed forward Dominick Barlow to a two-way contract. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not announced.

Barlow, 6-9/220, is coming off his first season with the Silver and Black. In 28 games with San Antonio last season as a two-way player, he averaged 3.9 points and 3.6 rebounds in 14.6 minutes per game, including a season-high 21 points and 19 rebounds in the final game of the season in Dallas on April 9. On April 2 at Sacramento, he posted a 12-point, 10-rebound double-double to go with 5 assists, becoming just the sixth Spurs rookie with a 10/10/5 game. The rookie also played in 18 games (11 starts) with the Austin Spurs, San Antonio’s G League affiliate, and averaged 16.1 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 29.7 minutes. He recorded a season-high 32 points at Rio Grande Valley.&nbsp;

Barlow most recently appeared in four games for San Antonio in the NBA 2K24 Las Vegas Summer League where he averaged 17.0 points, 8.3 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.25 blocks in 27.9 minutes. The New Jersey native first signed a two-way contract with San Antonio on July 11, 2022, becoming the first-ever Overtime Elite athlete to sign with an NBA team.