By Tom Orsborn, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-01-15 12:29:46
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2024年12月31日，在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的弗罗斯特银行中心，圣安东尼奥马刺队的哈里森·巴恩斯(Harrison Barnes)（40号）和朱利安·尚帕尼(Julian Champagnie)在上半场对阵洛杉矶快船的比赛中使用动感单车进行热身。
洛杉矶——在布鲁克林长大，朱利安·尚帕尼(Julian Champagnie)总是在想方设法在纽约区那些竞争激烈的街头篮球场上生存下来。
“那是一个水泥丛林，”上个月在巴克莱中心，马刺战胜布鲁克林篮网后，他说道。“这么说一点也不夸张。在那里生存很艰难，你必须要有厚脸皮才能在这里长大，尤其是在这里打球。每个人都非常认真。”
考虑到他顽强的过去，也难怪尚帕尼是本赛季马刺37场比赛全勤的三人之一。而俱乐部的另一位铁人，哈里森·巴恩斯(Harrison Barnes)，也和尚帕尼一样，热衷于在比赛中不在场上时使用动感单车来保持热身，这可能并非巧合。
对于这两位前锋来说，踩踏板的力量是他们成功的秘诀之一。
“保持温暖，这就是目标，”尚帕尼说。“你不想让你的膝盖僵硬。”
无论是在客场还是在周三晚上对阵孟菲斯的弗罗斯特银行中心，当尚帕尼和巴恩斯不在场上时，都可以看到他们在靠近球队替补席的篮筐后面骑动感单车。
踩踏板有助于23岁的尚帕尼和32岁的巴恩斯保持腿部肌肉的放松，同时最大限度地减少关节的压力。由于他们的低强度有氧运动，他们从不会感到寒冷。
“我们讨论的是球员们在替补上场时要做好准备，所以就他们需要做什么来做到这一点而言，每个人都有自己的方法，”巴恩斯说。“但对我来说，我只是待在自行车上以确保我保持放松，确保我随时准备上场，因为你随时可能再次被换上场，在转换进攻中得到一个空位接球投篮的机会，无论是什么，所以我必须做好准备。”
本赛季每场比赛都首发的巴恩斯在2020年夏天在奥兰多参加复赛后，在2021年开始成为动感单车的忠实用户。
“当球馆里没有球迷的时候，替补席后面有很多空间，”巴恩斯说。“你可以下场，然后训练师或其他人可以来帮助你，或者你可以做拉伸，你可以躺在Airex垫子上。那里对正在发生的事情没有任何限制，所以你可以一直保持放松。”
2024年12月31日，在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的弗罗斯特银行中心，圣安东尼奥马刺队的哈里森·巴恩斯（40号）在上半场对阵洛杉矶快船的比赛中使用动感单车进行热身。
在球迷回到比赛现场，替补席区域再次变得拥挤之后，巴恩斯决定骑上动感单车，以达到他在复赛时享受的同样的准备状态，在复赛时，他下场后有足够的空间舒展身体。
“当我们让球迷回来时，我忘记了座位离替补席有多近了，”他说。“那里的空间没那么大了。”
尚帕尼在本赛季从替补席上场后开始充分利用动感单车，他在上赛季的最后54场比赛和本赛季的前26场比赛中都是首发。
“从去年到今年，我一直是首发，所以我没有适应期，”他说。“现在，在比赛开始时，我在替补席上的那七八分钟里，我很快就冷了。骑上自行车保持温暖，我就没有适应期了。我可以直接投入比赛。”
骑动感单车会带来一些干扰和其他挑战。球迷和引座员都挤在自行车周围，视线也使得很难关注场上的比赛。
巴恩斯已经习惯了这种幽闭恐惧症般的氛围，但尚帕尼仍在适应中。
“我已经骑了几年了，所以很容易屏蔽除比赛以外的一切，”巴恩斯说。
尚帕尼说：“我尽力把注意力集中在场地上。坐在那里的球迷会试图和你说话，打招呼什么的，这没关系。通常情况下，我都在看大屏幕（Jumbotron），因为我从篮筐后面看不到。我试着分析对方球队在做什么。”
马刺代理教练米奇·约翰逊表示，两人对动感单车的投入突显了他们保持准备的“成熟和决心”。
“今年我们有很多不同的阵容和情况……他们正在努力保持准备，而不是总是有明确的，哦，不管怎样，我都会在某个时间回到场上，”约翰逊说。
尚帕尼自从回到替补席后的表现突出了他随时待命的能力。在他回到替补席后的11场比赛中，他场均得到9.5分，三分球命中率高达40%，场均出手6.3次。
“这很有趣，”当被问及这位三年级球员如何能从替补席上带来活力时，约翰逊说，“有时候，当你用努力和能量投入比赛时，球就会找到你，你就会投进，你就会得到哨声。这是教练的说辞，会让球员翻白眼，但这是真的。”
至于巴恩斯，他场均得到11.2分，三分球命中率为40.9%，场均出手3.6次。
他也一直是年轻队友的完美榜样。
2025年1月4日，在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的弗罗斯特银行中心，圣安东尼奥马刺队的朱利安·尚帕尼（30号）和德文·瓦塞尔（24号）在下半场对阵丹佛掘金的比赛中使用动感单车进行热身。
“在准备工作的细节和纪律性方面，以及在比赛后和休息日，他都表现得非常职业，”约翰逊说。“然后他在场上也为我们打得很好。他的表现不言自明，我们很幸运能从中受益。”
对尚帕尼来说，这可以归结为找到优势，就像他在纽约的篮球场上打野球时一样，包括在曼哈顿上城的戴克曼公园和林肯公园，以及格林威治村的西四街球场。
“每个人都在为吹嘘的资本而战，所以这是一个弱肉强食的世界，”他说。
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Spurs’ Julian Champagnie, Harrison Barnes pedal their way to success
Harrison Barnes (40) of the San Antonio Spurs and Julian Champagnie works out on stationary bike during game against the Los Angeles Clippers in the first half at Frost Bank Center on December 31, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas.
LOS ANGELES – Growing up in Brooklyn, Julian Champagnie looked for every edge he could find to survive the heated competition on the gritty playgrounds of the New York borough.
“It is a concrete jungle,” he said after scoring 18 points in the Spurs’ win over the Brooklyn Nets last month at Barclays Center. “It’s no joke when you say that. It’s tough out there and you got to have some thick skin to grow up here and especially to play here. Everybody takes everything serious.”
Given his hard-nosed history, it’s no surprise Champagnie is one of three players to appear in all of the Spurs’ 37 games this season. And it may not be a coincidence that one of the club’s other iron men, Harrison Barnes, is, like Champagnie, a devoted user of the stationary bike to stay warm while off the court during games.
For the two forwards, pedal power is one of the secrets to their success.
“Stay warm, that’s just kind of the goal of it,” Champagnie said. “You don’t want your knees to lock up.”
Whether on the road or at the Frost Bank Center, where they faced Memphis on Wednesday night, Champagnie and Barnes can be found riding stationary bikes behind the basket closest to the team’s bench when they aren’t playing.
Pedaling away helps Champagnie, 23, and Barnes, 32, keep their leg muscles loose while putting minimal stress on their joints. They never get cold thanks to their low-impact, aerobic workouts.
“We talk about guys being ready when they check in, so to each their own in terms of what they need to do to do that,” Barnes said. “But for me, I just stay on the bike to make sure I’m loose, to make sure I’m ready to go, because you could check back in, get a wide-open catch-and-shot two or three in transition, whatever it may be, so I got to stay ready.”
Barnes, who has started every game this season, became a stationary bike devotee in 2021 after playing for Sacramento in the bubble in Orlando during the pandemic in summer 2020.
“When there were no fans in the arenas, there was a lot of space behind the bench,” Barnes said. “You could check out of a game and a trainer or somebody could come work with you or you could stretch, you could be on an Airex pad. There wasn’t really any regulation of what was going on there, so you could always stay loose.”
Harrison Barnes (40) of the San Antonio Spurs works out on stationary bike during game against the Los Angeles Clippers in the first half at Frost Bank Center on December 31, 2024 in San Antonio, Texas.
After fans returned to games and bench areas became crowded again, Barnes decided to hop aboard the stationary bike to achieve the same state of readiness he enjoyed in the bubble, where he had plenty of room to spread out and stretch when off the court.
“When we brought fans back, I forgot how close the seats were to the bench,” he said. “There wasn’t quite as much space.”
Champagnie began making the most of the stationary bike this season after he returned to the bench after starting the final 54 games last season and the first 26 this season.
“I was starting for a long time from last year to this year, so I didn’t have an adjustment period,” he said. “In those seven, eight minutes when I’m on the bench now to start the game, I get cold pretty quick. Getting on the bike to stay warm, I don’t have an adjustment period. I can just jump right into it.”
Riding the stationary bikes comes with some distractions and other challenges. Fans and ushers are crowded around the bikes and the sight lines make it difficult to follow action on the court.
Barnes is used to the claustrophobic atmosphere, but Champagnie is still adjusting.
“I’ve been doing it for a few years now, so it is pretty easy to block out everything but the game,” Barnes said.
Said Champagnie, “I do my best to focus on the court. The fans sitting there try to talk to you, say hello or whatever, and that’s fine. Usually, I’m watching the big screen (on the Jumbotron) because I can’t see from behind the basket. I try to analyze what the other team is doing.”
Acting Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said the duo’s commitment to the stationary bikes underscores their “maturity and determination” to stay ready.
“We’ve had a lot of different lineups and situations this year…and they are trying to stay ready without always having the clear cut. oh, I’m going to go back in no matter what with such and such (time) on the clock,” Johnson said.
Champagnie’s production since moving to the bench highlights his ability to produce at a moment’s notice. In his 11 games since moving to the bench, he’s averaging 9.5 points on the strength of shooting 40% from 3-point range on 6.3 attempts per outing.
“It’s funny,” Johnson said when asked about the third-year pro’s ability to bring a spark off the bench, “sometimes when you put yourself into the game with effort and energy, the ball finds you, you make a shot, you get a whistle. It’s coach-speak that makes players roll their eyes, but it’s true.”
As for Barnes, he’s averaging 11.2 points per game while shooting 40.9% from beyond the arc on 3.6 attempts per contest.
And he’s also been the perfect role model for his younger teammates.
Julian Champagnie (30) of the San Antonio Spurs and Devin Vassell (24) loosen up on the stationary bike during game against of the Denver Nuggets in the second half at Frost Bank Center on January 4, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.
“He’s been as professional as you could want with the attention to detail and discipline he shows in terms of his preparation and then also after games and on days off,” Johnson said. “And then he’s played very well for us on the court. His performance speaks for itself and we’ve been lucky to be benefit from that.”
For Champagnie, it boils down to finding an edge just like he did when he was playing pick-up ball at New York’s playgrounds, including ones at Dyckman Park and Lincoln Park in Upper Manhattan and the West Fourth Street Courts in Greenwich Village.
“Everybody’s playing for bragging rights, so it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there,” he said.
By Tom Orsborn, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News