The most important result for the San Antonio Spurs over the early weeks of this NBA season will probably come on Nov. 4.

And the team doesn't even have a game that day.

Voters in Bexar County, Texas, are headed to the polls soon — early voting starts Monday and runs through Oct. 31, then actual Election Day voting happens on Nov. 4 — to decide if county officials will be permitted to commit no more than $311 million in what are called venue taxes to help build a new multipurpose arena that the Spurs will call home.

If it passes, the Spurs said they will commit at least $500 million toward construction, plus cover all overruns — which could be significant — and insist that another $1.4 billion in private development around the new arena would happen. They would also be paying rent at th

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