By Jacob Douglas | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-01-29 03:28:21
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
圣安东尼奥可能会在交易截止日前考虑交易掉队中的一名年轻球员。
随着NBA交易截止日的临近（仅剩一周多时间），正式进入了“流言蜚语”的季节。各种传闻甚嚣尘上，交易讨论占据了篮球话题的主导地位。这也不足为奇，毕竟看到球队进行一些可能影响他们未来数年，或是让他们变成NBA总冠军争夺者的操作，总是令人兴奋的。
圣安东尼奥马刺队正处于一个有趣的阶段。他们目前20胜23负的战绩，足以支撑他们去争取一两名轮换球员，以冲击NBA附加赛。但你也可以认为他们会选择交易老将，以提高他们在2025年选秀大会（人才济济的一届）中的顺位。
每年，SB Nation都会发布一篇关于每支球队在交易截止日前最有可能被交易的球员的文章。以下是今年文章中关于马刺队的节选：
许多马刺球迷可能会期望看到扎克·科林斯(Zach Collins)或凯尔登·约翰逊(Keldon Johnson)的名字出现在这份名单上。但这篇文章有点反其道而行之，因为圣安东尼奥看起来不像是一支会在截止日前搞大动作的球队。这支球队的管理层已经证明了他们的耐心。等到休赛期再进行重大交易，可以让他们围绕他们决定让维克多·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)搭档的球员来构建阵容。正因如此，圣安东尼奥可能会保留他们的可交易合同，以备在夏季进行潜在的大交易。
但这并不意味着他们不会进行任何交易。对圣安东尼奥来说，一些小规模的边缘交易，比如寻找一名替补中锋，是很有意义的。这样的交易可能需要一些选秀权或年轻球员。马拉基·布拉纳姆(Malaki Branham)在这里就比较合适。他的NBA生涯开局坎坷，虽然展现出了一些三分和中距离自主进攻的迹象，但在防守端却表现挣扎。布拉纳姆发现自己在马刺队的轮换阵容之外，没有明确的途径获得有意义的上场时间。
但考虑到他廉价的合同以及还有一年的球队选项，对于那些排名垫底的球队来说，他可能值得一试，而马刺队则可以寻找能够帮助他们提升的球员。
你可以为很多不同的马刺球员进行这样的思考。布拉纳姆和布雷克·韦斯利(Blake Wesley)可能是候选人，科林斯和约翰逊也是。这可能令人失望，但圣安东尼奥甚至有可能根本不做任何交易！我们还有一周半的时间来等待，看看最终会发生什么。
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Who the Spurs are most likely to trade at the deadline
San Antonio could look to move one of its young players at the trade deadline.
With the NBA trade deadline just over a week away, it’s officially “slop season.” The rumor mill is as busy as ever, and transactions rule the basketball discourse. Why shouldn’t they? It’s exciting to see teams make moves that will hamper them for years or turn them into NBA title contenders.
The San Antonio Spurs find themselves at an interesting stage during this time. At 20-23, they are good enough to justify going after a rotational piece or two in order to make a run at the NBA Play-In Tournament. You could also justify them selling off veterans to improve their draft standings in a loaded 2025 class.
Every year, SB Nation publishes a piece on the most likely players to be moved at the trade deadline for each team. Here is the snippet from this year’s article about the Spurs:
Many Spurs fans might expect to see Zach Collins or Keldon Johnson’s name on this list. This is a bit of a zag because San Antonio doesn’t seem like a team that will make a big splash at the deadline. This front office has proven to be patient. Waiting until the offseason to make a big move allows them to construct a roster around whatever players they decide to surround Victor Wembanyama with. Because of that, San Antonio will likely keep their tradeable contracts for a potential big move in the summer.
That doesn’t mean they won’t make any moves. Smaller, marginal moves like going after a backup center make a lot of sense for San Antonio. A move like that will likely include some draft capital or young players. Malaki Branham makes sense here. He’s had a rocky start to his NBA career, showing signs of shot creation from three and in the mid-range, all the while struggling on the defensive end. Branham has found himself on the outside looking in of the Spurs rotation, with no clear path to meaningful minutes.
But on a cheap contract with one more year of team control, he may be worth a flyer for a team heading toward the bottom of the standings while the Spurs look for a player that can help them ascend.
You could make an argument for a lot of different Spurs for this thought exercise. Branham and Blake Wesley could be candidates, as well as Collins and Johnson. It may be disappointing, but there is a chance San Antonio doesn’t even make a deal! We’ll have a week and a half to wait and find out what comes to fruition.
By Jacob Douglas, via Pounding The Rock