Spurs vs Warriors LIVE, Score Updates and Play-by-Play in NBA Cup

San Antonio has beaten Dallas, Sacramento, Portland, Phoenix and Chicago in its last five games.

Four of those wins came away from the Frost Bank Center.

San Antonio comes home after four straight road wins, and Golden State arrives after a road loss in Houston, so travel and rest are part of the picture for both benches.

Tip-off at the Frost Bank Center is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. ET, 8:30 p.m. CT, 6:30 p.m. PT and 02:30 GMT (03:30 in Madrid).

Prime Video carries the game in the United States, and NBA League Pass is the option for out-of-market fans in other regions. The late start means the game finishes in the early hours of Saturday morning in Europe.

Stay with VAVEL for confirmed starting lineups, the final injury updates on Fox and Vassell and live quarter-by-quarter scoring.

The game is played at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, where the Spurs are 4-2 this season. It is an Emirates NBA Cup group game, so the result counts toward the tournament standings as well as the regular season record.

Golden State is 2-3 on the road, compared with 6-1 at home inside an 8-4 overall record.

The Spurs have a 9-2 record against Western Conference teams, and the Warriors are 6-4.

Lopsided on paper. San Antonio is at -13.5 and the over/under is 218.5.

The Spurs' last five games produced totals of 223, 233, 228, 218 and 243 points, while the Warriors' produced 229, 220, 245, 225 and 223.

The 13.5-point spread reflects the Curry absence, and the 218.5 total sits near the bottom of both teams' recent ranges, since the lowest total in either sample is 218.

Both teams scored at least 108 points in each of their last five games, which shows how comfortably each offense has been operating. Combined, the two averages come to 243 points per night, well above the posted total, so the number reflects how many scorers are missing.

In the Southwest, San Antonio leads at 10-2, followed by Houston at 9-3, Dallas and Memphis at 7-4 and New Orleans at 4-8.

In the Pacific, the Los Angeles Lakers are first at 11-2, Golden State is second at 8-4, Phoenix is 4-6, the Clippers are 2-8 and Sacramento is 1-10.

The Spurs are one game ahead of Houston, and the Warriors are 2.5 games behind the Lakers.

The Spurs have been the most consistent of the two teams in the standings, with a 10-2 record that is two games better than the Warriors' 8-4.

Golden State beat Phoenix 116-113, beat Miami 120-100, beat Orlando 126-119 in overtime, crushed New Orleans 138-87 and lost 115-108 at Houston in its latest game.

The 138-87 win over the Pelicans was a margin of 51 points, the largest of any result in either team's last five.

The Warriors averaged 121.6 points and allowed 106.8, and the Houston loss is the first defeat of that stretch. It was also the only road game in the sample, so the trip to San Antonio is Golden State's second away game in a row. The overtime win over Orlando was the only game of the five that needed extra time, and the other three wins came by 3, 20 and 51 points.

San Antonio beat Dallas 112-111, won 124-109 at Sacramento, won 125-103 at Portland, won 122-96 at Phoenix and won 124-119 at Chicago in its latest game.

Five wins in a row. Four of them on the road.

The Spurs averaged 121.4 points and allowed 107.6 across the stretch, a margin of 13.8 points per game. The stretch began at home against Dallas and then took San Antonio on a four-game road trip, so tonight is the first home game since that 112-111 win. Their closest game was that Dallas result, the only one decided by one possession, and the others were won by 15, 22, 26 and 5 points.

With Curry unavailable, the Warriors' production runs through two other names. Draymond Green leads the team with 7.5 assists per game, and Yaxel Lendeborg leads it with 7.4 rebounds.

Green's assist average is higher than Fox's 6.2 for San Antonio, which shows how much of Golden State's offense runs through him.

Take away Curry's 27.8 points and the scoring has to come from a group that has been balanced enough to win four of its last five. In the Houston loss, the Warriors scored 108, which is about 14 points below their average over the stretch.

Nobody on the floor tonight can match Victor Wembanyama, who is putting up 30.2 points and 11.7 rebounds a night for San Antonio. De'Aaron Fox adds 6.2 assists per game and is listed as day-to-day with a hip injury.

Devin Vassell (groin) is also day-to-day, while Tobias Harris (calf) and Jayden Quaintance (knee) are out.

Wembanyama's scoring average is 2.4 points higher than Curry's 27.8, so the Spurs have the best scorer on the floor. Wembanyama also leads either roster in rebounds by a margin of 4.3 over the next best average listed. His 11.7 rebounds are also 4.3 more than Lendeborg's 7.4, the best rebounding average for Golden State.

Start with the big one: Stephen Curry is out with an abdominal injury. Kristaps Porzingis is out with an illness, Moses Moody is out with a knee injury and Brandon Williams is out with a hamstring problem.

Charles Bassey is day-to-day with a toe issue. That's five names for Golden State against four for San Antonio.

The Spurs list Tobias Harris (calf) and Jayden Quaintance (knee) as out, and De'Aaron Fox (hip) and Devin Vassell (groin) as day-to-day, so their own availability is also worth checking before the opening tip.

Golden State's leading scorer at 27.8 points per game is out, and that goes a long way toward explaining a spread this big for an 8-4 team.

Welcome to VAVEL's live coverage of Golden State Warriors at San Antonio Spurs from the Frost Bank Center. Tip-off in this Emirates NBA Cup group game is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. ET (8:30 p.m. in San Antonio), which is 02:30 GMT and 03:30 on Saturday in Madrid.

The San Antonio Spurs lead the Southwest Division at 10-2 and are 4-2 at home. The Golden State Warriors are 8-4 and second in the Pacific, with a 2-3 record on the road.

Oddsmakers have the Spurs as 13.5-point favorites with the total at 218.5, and the game streams on Prime Video.