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More than 64,000 fans will be in attendance when the San Antonio Spurs host the Golden State Warriors at the Alamodome on Friday night, setting a new NBA record.

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The San Antonio Spurs have sold 63,592 tickets for Friday's Return to the Alamodome game against Golden State, a figure that will set the NBA's single-game attendance mark.

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The previous record was 62,046, set by Atlanta against Chicago at the Georgia Dome on March 27, 1998. There are still a few tickets available. The Dome will be set up to accommodate around 65,000. With standing room only, that number is 68,000.

As a part of the franchise’s 50th-anniversary celebration, the Spurs announced in August that they would going to play one game in the Alamodome, their former homecourt from 1993 to 2002. They hosted the Miami Heat in Mexico on Dec. 17.

The biggest crowd in league history was 108,713 for the 2010 All-Star Game at the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.

Excluding that All-Star Game, Friday's matchup will be only the fourth NBA game with an attendance exceeding 50,000.

Two of those were at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan: the Detroit Pistons drew 52,745 for a game against Philadelphia on Feb. 14, 1987, then had a crowd of 61,983 for a game against Boston on Jan. 29, 1988. That record stood until the game at the Georgia Dome in 1998.

The Alamodome record for an NBA game is 39,554 on June 18, 1999, when New York visited San Antonio for Game 2 of that year’s NBA Finals.

Whereas a crowd of this dimension is uncommon for an NBA game, Stephen Curry knows what it can feel like. The Warriors' star guard performed in front of more than 57,000 fans when his Davidson's College played in the NCAA Elite Eight against Kansas in 2008.

The Spurs presently have the second-worst record in the Western Conference with 13-28. Their attendance at AT&T Heart displays these struggles, as they have the third-lowest turnout in the NBA with 15,614 fans per game.

"It will be a fun evening," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told the media. "To have that many people in there, it's crazy."

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