BASKETBALL: Australian basketball history is set to be made when the San Antonio Spurs host the Utah Jazz.

There will be four Australians in today's NBA game, with Patty Mills and Aron Baynes on the Spurs and Dante Exum and Joe Ingles suiting up for the Utah Jazz.

The teams met on December 9 in Salt Lake City, but Mills was still recovering from shoulder surgery and didn't play.

The odds are stacked against the Jazz, who have the NBA western conference's third-worst record, have lost nine straight and have failed to win in San Antonio in 32 of their last 34 visits.

The reigning NBA champion Spurs sit in seventh position in the western conference, but are back to full strength with shooting guard/forward Kawhi Leonard returning on Friday after sitting 17 games with a hand injury.

The game is scheduled to begin today 11am AEDT.

Australia is riding an historic high in the NBA in the 2014/15 season, with Mills, Baynes, Exum and Ingles joined in the world's elite basketball league by Andrew Bogut (Golden State Warriors), Matthew Dellavedova (Cleveland Cavaliers) and Cameron Bairstow (Chicago Bulls).