By Jacob Douglas | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-02-16 10:11:01
由生成式 AI 翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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NBA全明星周末的周六夜活动在联盟的大背景下已经变得无关紧要。有人说，曾经是展示高难度扣篮和超级巨星成为传奇的夜晚，现在已经变成了一场令人厌倦的闹剧。如果这是真的，那么技巧挑战赛更是周六夜表演中的垫底存在。
圣安东尼奥马刺队可能让这项赛事成为了当晚最有趣的时刻。
维克多·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)和克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)周六晚上在旧金山代表马刺队出战。他们的任务是完成一个包含闪烁灯光、传球篮筐和投篮球架的障碍赛，而投篮球架将成为故事的关键。
马刺队率先出场，开局强势。他们的传球干脆利落，在场上移动迅速。当文班亚马来到投篮球架时，他把球扔出去，好像它们没有足够的空气。
克里斯·保罗和维克多·文班亚马发现了技巧挑战赛的漏洞。pic.twitter.com/lP5CzssATS
— Steve Jones Jr. (@ stevejones20) February 16, 2025
很快就变得显而易见：马刺队试图破解技巧挑战赛的系统，以确保胜利。你看，他们有三次投篮机会，然后进入下一个球架。错失投篮没有任何惩罚。快速地把球扔掉，可以让他们更快地通过赛道。这是一个天才般的策略，也是作弊。
亚当·肖华(Adam Silver)迅速采取行动，取消了以创纪录时间完成比赛的马刺队的资格。他们试图欺骗系统的行为盖过了当晚的其他一切。 埃文·莫布里 (Evan Mobley)和 多诺万·米切尔 (Donovan Mitchell)率领的克利夫兰骑士队击败了 摩西·穆迪 (Moses Moody)和 德雷蒙德·格林 (Draymond Green)率领的金州勇士队。但没人真的关心这些！
当摄像机还在拍摄技巧挑战赛的冠军轮次时，TNT的 阿莉·拉 force (Allie LaForce)仍在试图了解文班和保罗身上发生了什么。她被一名试图向马刺队解释规则的NBA官员强行阻止。
哈哈，他们不允许TNT采访克里斯·保罗和维克多·文班亚马，因为他们被取消了NBA技巧挑战赛的资格。pic.twitter.com/u7Yat5XRKQ
— Anthony (@ anthonyjc92) February 16, 2025
显然，NBA对马刺队的挑衅行为并不满意。这支银黑军团展现的真正朋克时刻，也许会成为当晚最令人难忘的时刻，并且让一项沉闷的赛事 有趣 了一次。NBA应该欢迎这种WWE级别的反派转变，因为它确实让球迷们开始讨论这项赛事！
保罗在赛后拒绝接受媒体采访（这很搞笑），但文班亚马在他的技巧挑战赛后的新闻发布会上谈到了这场争议。令人震惊的是，他完全承担了责任，而这一策略从头到尾都写满了保罗的名字。
这是文班的恶棍弧线的开始吗？他确实说过他来全明星周末不是为了交朋友。他指的是通过作弊技巧挑战赛来交朋友吗？可能不是，但如果真是这样就更有趣了。他将在周日的全明星赛中再次有机会重获NBA的青睐。
点击查看原文：The Spurs put the Skills Challenge back on the map with controversial disqualification
The Spurs put the Skills Challenge back on the map with controversial disqualification
All press is good press, right?
NBA All-Star Weekend’s Saturday night events have become an afterthought in the greater landscape of the league. Some say what used to be a night for high-flying dunks and where superstars become legends has turned into a tired spectacle. If that’s true, the Skill Challenge event is the lowest of the low for the Saturday night showcase.
The San Antonio Spurs may have made the event the most interesting moment of the night.
Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul took the court in San Francisco for Team Spurs on Saturday night. Their task was to complete an obstacle course filled with flashing lights, hoops for passing, and racks of balls for shooting, which will become key to this story.
The Spurs went first and started things off strong. Their passes were crisp, and they moved quickly around the court. When Wembanyama got to the shooting rack, he tossed the balls away like they lacked sufficient air.
Chris Paul and Victor Wenbanyama found the hack in the Skills Challenge. pic.twitter.com/lP5CzssATS
— Steve Jones Jr. (@ stevejones20) February 16, 2025
Quickly it became clear: The Spurs were trying to hack the Skills Challenge system and guarantee a win. You see, they get three shot attempts, and then they move onto the next rack. There is no penalty for missing the shots. Tossing them away quickly allows them to move through the course quickly. It’s a genius strategy. It’s also cheating.
Adam Silver quickly dropped the hammer and disqualified the Spurs who finished in record time. Their attempt at cheating the system overshadowed the rest of the event. Evan Mobley and Donovan Mitchell of The Cleveland Cavaliers went on to defeat Moses Moody and Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors. But no one really cares about that!
While the cameras were still rolling on the championship round of the Skills Challenge, TNT’s Allie LaForce was still trying to get the scoop on what was going on with Wemby and CP3. She was forcefully turned away by an NBA official trying to explain the rules to the Spurs.
LMAO they wouldn’t let TNT Interview Chris Paul and Victor Wembanyama after they got disqualified from the NBA Skills Challenge pic.twitter.com/u7Yat5XRKQ
— Anthony (@ anthonyjc92) February 16, 2025
Clearly the NBA wasn’t happy with the Spurs act of defiance. A true punk rock moment for your Silver and Black will be perhaps the most remembered moment of the night, and made a dull event interesting for once. The NBA should welcome this WWE-level heel turn, because it actually made fans talk about the event!
Paul declined to speak with the media after the event (hilarious), but Wembanyama talked about the controversy in his post-Skill Challenge presser. In a shocking turn of events, he took full responsibility for a strategy that had CP3’s name written all over it.
Is this the beginning of Wemby’s villain arc? He did say he wasn’t coming to All-Star Weekend to make friends. Did he mean by cheating the Skills Challenge? Probably not, but it’s funnier if he did. He’ll have another chance to get back in the NBA’s good graces during the All-Star game on Sunday.
By Jacob Douglas, via Pounding The Rock