After a three-year pause caused by the pandemic, the NBA is returning to Mexico City. The first regular-season game will be played in the capital city of the United State’s southern neighbor on December 17, 2022, between the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs according to the South Florida Sun Sentinal’s Ira Windman.
In 2019, the Phoenix Suns, Detroit Pistons, and San Antonio Spurs played a pair of games in the notably high-elevation metropolis, and the Heat’s first game in North America’s largest city since 2017, a fact picked up by then-Heat wing Dion Waiters at the time of their last visit according to Windman.
“I just found out it was actually bigger than New York,” observed Waiters. “That’s crazy.”