By Tom Orsborn, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-02-17 00:04:13
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2025年2月16日，在旧金山大通中心举行的第74届NBA全明星赛冠军赛中，查克队的维克多·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)扣篮对抗沙克队的达米安·利拉德，最终沙克队以41-25获胜。
旧金山——在参加了他的第一次全明星赛后，维克多·文班亚马准备好好休息一下了。
“我将试着冷静下来，在48小时内忘却篮球——就这么久，”这位马刺队中锋在周日晚上说道。
他需要休息有几个原因。
马刺队计划在周四对阵菲尼克斯太阳队的比赛中恢复战斗，目前战绩为23胜29负。这将是在奥斯汀进行背靠背比赛的第一场。如果他们想重返附加赛争夺行列，并在最近的18场比赛中输掉13场后，他们需要文班亚马发挥出最佳水平。
还有就是：文班亚马在繁忙的全明星周末的最后，兑现了他的承诺，即在全明星赛中全力以赴。对于这位身高7英尺3英寸的中锋来说，在这场首届四队迷你锦标赛中，没有任何走过场的情况。
斯蒂芬·库里在他的主场大通中心赢得了MVP荣誉，他在沙克队元老队(Shaq’s OGs)以41-25战胜包括文班亚马在内的查克队全球明星队的比赛中，通过四个三分球得到12分。但这位21岁的法国人在半决赛和决赛中替补出场，凭借其全力以赴的精神赢得了尊重。
“我最大的收获是，在球场上百分之百地付出是可能的，努力比赛，拼尽全力，”文班亚马说。“对我来说，这是打篮球的唯一方式，我认为这只会让比赛变得更好。”
文班亚马在决赛中以7投5中的命中率得到全队最高的11分。他效力于由查尔斯·巴克利选拔，并拥有其他几位国际球星的球队，他在输给由沙奎尔·奥尼尔选拔并由库里和凯文·杜兰特等未来名人堂成员带领的经验丰富的球队的比赛中，还得到3个篮板和1个盖帽，出场时间为8分钟。
文班亚马上周发誓要“带来那种反差，一个家伙疯狂地拼抢，扑球，在每次进攻中都全力以赴”，因为多年来，这场比赛一直受到球员们只专注于录制精彩镜头而不注重防守的困扰。
沙克队(Team Shaq)的达米安·利拉德表示，文班亚马在采用40分目标得分的新四队赛制中兑现了他的承诺。
“我认为他的表现就像在正式比赛中一样，非常认真，”利拉德说。“当我看到他时，我就想，‘他没有在胡闹。’有一次，他被犯规了。裁判没有吹罚，他生气了。”
“他只知道一种方式，你可以看出他每次都会这样打球。”
当沙克队凭借杰森·塔图姆(Jayson Tatum)早期的8分取得11-0的领先时，文班亚马还在板凳上。
沙克队在没有元老中的元老勒布朗·詹姆斯(LeBron James)的情况下赢得了比赛。
NBA历史得分王在开赛前约90分钟宣布，由于挥之不去的脚和脚踝问题，他无法上场。这是自2004年以来，詹姆斯首次缺席全明星赛，结束了他在这项精英赛事中连续出场20次的纪录。
2025年2月16日，在旧金山举行的NBA全明星篮球赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋维克多·文班亚马在特雷·杨和尼古拉·约基奇的防守下扣篮。(美联社图片/Jed Jacobsohn)
“我讨厌这样，”2005年首次参加全明星赛的詹姆斯说。
在半决赛中，文班亚马在查克队全球明星队以41-32战胜肯尼队年轻新星队（由肯尼·史密斯(Kenny Smith)选拔的球队）的比赛中，以4投3中的命中率得到6分。在6分钟内，他还得到4个篮板、1个盖帽和1个抢断。
在两次落后5分的情况下，谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大带领全球明星队以5投5中得到12分。
文班亚马接到尼古拉·约基奇的妙传完成空接扣篮，在锁定胜局的15-7攻势中，帮助全球明星队取得34-27的领先优势。他还完成了一次左手扣篮，帮助他的球队取得23-21的领先优势。
文班亚马在早些时候表示他倾向于恢复传统的东部对西部赛制，或者全新的世界队对美国队赛制之后，对这场迷你锦标赛表示赞许。
“它比我预期的要好，”他说。“它运作得很好。感觉比赛有很高的 stakes，即使，当然，努力程度是不一致的。”
文班亚马并不是锦标赛中唯一的马刺球员。新秀斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)效力于由WNBA传奇人物坎迪斯·帕克命名的坎迪斯队冉冉新星队(Candace’s Rising Stars)，该队在当晚的第一场比赛中以42-35输给了沙克队元老队。
利拉德得到9分，库里和杰伦·布朗各贡献8分，但卡斯尔表现出色，在11分钟内以7投3中得到6分、2个篮板、2次助攻和2次抢断。
卡斯尔表示，他和冉冉新星队的其他球员并不害怕面对沙克队元老队，其中包括詹姆斯·哈登和凯里·欧文。
“我们全年都和他们一起比赛，所以我们都共享这个联盟，”卡斯尔说。“他们已经这样做了很长时间了，但归根结底，这仍然是篮球。…我们只是想出去竞争，用新的赛制为观众带来一场表演。”
卡斯尔在这场比赛中的一个低谷时刻出现在冉冉新星队以17-15落后时，他错失了一次扣篮。
“老实说，我只是想太用力地扣篮了，”他说。“我打到了篮筐后沿。…我只是错过了，真的。”
坎迪斯队在周五赢得了冉冉新星迷你锦标赛的参赛资格，这在很大程度上归功于卡斯尔的出色表现，他因此获得了MVP荣誉。卡斯尔也在周六晚上成为焦点，他在扣篮大赛中与麦克·麦克朗(Mac McClung)正面对决，最终奥兰多魔术队的G联赛球员连续三年赢得这项赛事，成为历史第一人。
“他在球场上和大量的媒体活动和出场中表现出色，”文班亚马谈到卡斯尔时说。“我为他感到非常骄傲。”
沙克队的每位球员都因胜利而获得了12.5万美元的奖金。文班亚马和查克队的亚军每人获得5万美元，而半决赛失利者每人获得2.5万美元。
现在，文班亚马将把注意力转移到努力重振马刺队，马刺队目前在西部联盟排名第12位，落后第10名金州勇士队3 1/2个胜场。
“防守是关键，”以场均3.8个盖帽领跑联盟的文班亚马说。“回到拥有联盟最佳防守之一的状态将是一个巨大的帮助。”
Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving scores past San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving, left, dribbles past San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama shoots over Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks past Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks past Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks past teammate Trae Young during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
El pívot de los San Antonio Spurs, Victor Wembanyama, realiza una clavada ante su compañero Trae Young durante el partido de las estrellas de la NBA el domingo 16 de febrero de 2025 en San Francisco. (Foto AP/Jed Jacobsohn)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama is defended by Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks past Memphis Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks over Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama attempts a 3-point basket during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama smiles before the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama smiles during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama is introduced during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
San Antonio Spurs forward-center Victor Wembanyama (1) of Chuck’s Global Stars drives against Shaq’s OGs during the Championship match against the 74th NBA All Star Game in San Francisco, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.
Team Shaq OGs Stephen Curry controls the ball against Chuck’s Global Stars Nikola Jokic, left, Victor Wembanyama, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander during the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.
Team Chuck’s Victor Wembanyama reacts to his dunk during Team Chuck’s 41-32 win over Team Kenny in Game 1 of 74th NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sunday, February 16, 2025.
Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham (2) drives for a layup as San Antonio Spurs forward-center Victor Wembanyama (1) blocks during the 74th NBA All Star Game in San Francisco, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.
Team Kenny’s Evan Mobley dunks past Team Chuck’s Victor Wembanyama during Game 1 of 74th NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sunday, February 16, 2025.
Chuck’s Global Stars’ Victor Wembanyama (1) gestures after sinking a basket against the Kenny’s Young Stars during Game 1 of the NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP)
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, center, dunks next to Memphis Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr. during the NBA basketball All-Star game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (Ezra Shaw/Pool Photo via AP)
Chuck’s Global Stars’ Giannis Antetokounmpo, left, Trae Young, Victor Wembanyama, and Alperen Sengun watch from the bench during the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.
Victor Wembanyama is introduced before the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.
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Team Chuck’s Victor Wembanyama dunks against Team Shaq’s Damian Lillard during Team Shaq’s 41-25 win in championship game of 74th NBA All-Star Game at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sunday, February 16, 2025.
SAN FRANCISCO – Victor Wembanyama is ready for a break after playing in his first All-Star Game.
“I’ll try to try cool down and forget a little bit about basketball for 48 hours - that’s it,” the Spurs center said Sunday night.
He needs the rest for a couple of reasons.
The Spurs, who are set to return to action with a 23-29 record against Phoenix on Thursday in the first of back-to-back games in Austin, need him at his best if they are going to get back into the play-in race after losing 13 of their last 18 games.
And then there’s this: Wembanyama capped a busy All-Star Weekend by making good on his vow to go all out in the All-Star Game. There was no going through the motions for the 7-foot-3 center in the inaugural, four-team mini-tournament.
Stephen Curry won MVP honors on his home court at Chase Center after scoring 12 points on four 3-pointers in Shaq’s OGs 41-25 win over Chuck’s Global Stars, which included Wembanyama. But the 21-year-old Frenchman earned respect with maximum efforts off the bench in both the semifinals and the final.
“My biggest takeaway is that it’s possible to give a hundred percent on that court, to play hard, to play your ass off,” Wembanyama said. “And, for me, it’s the only way to play basketball, and I think it’ll only make the game better.”
Wembanyama scored a team-high 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting in the final. Playing for a team drafted by Charles Barkley and featuring several other international stars, he also had three rebounds and a block in eight minutes of the loss to the veteran-laded squad selected by Shaquille O’Neal and powered by future Hall of Famers like Curry and Kevin Durant.
Wembanyama vowed last week to “bring that contrast of a single guy who goes crazy, dives on the ball, hustles every play” in a game that for years has been plagued by players focused on recording highlight-reel plays while playing no defense.
Team Shaq’s Damian Lillard said Wembanyama delivered on that promise in the new four-team format that featured games with a target score of 40.
“I thought he played like he plays in a game, seriously,” Lillard said. "When I saw him, I was like, ‘He was not messing around.’ One time, he got fouled. The ref didn’t call it and he got mad.
“He knows one way, and you can tell that he’s going to play that way every time.”
Wembanyama was still on the bench when Shaq’s OGs built an 11-0 lead thanks to eight early points by Jayson Tatum.
Team Shaq won despite playing without the OG of OGs, LeBron James.
The NBA’s career scoring leader announced about 90 minutes before tip off he couldn’t play because of nagging foot and ankle issues. It was the first time since 2004, James was absent from the All-Star Game, ending his record streak of appearances in the elite contest at 20.
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama dunks past teammates Trae Young and Nikola Jokic during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)
“I hate that,” said James, who played in his first All-Star Game in 2005.
Wembanyama had six points on 3-for-4 shooting in the Global Stars’ 41-32 semifinal win over Kenny’s Young Stars – a team selected by Kenny Smith – in the first semifinal. In six minutes, he also had four rebounds, a block and a steal.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Global Stars, who twice trailed by five points, with 12 points on 5 for 5.
Wembanyma’s lob slam on a feed from Nikola Jokic gave the Global Stars a 34-27 advantage in the midst of a game-clinching 15-7 run. He also had a left-handed dunk to give his team a 23-21 advantage.
Wembanyama gave his stamp of approval to the mini-tournament after saying earlier he favored either a return to the traditional East versus West format or a new World versus U.S matchup,
“It was better than I expected,” he said. “It worked out really well. It felt like there were high stakes to the games, even though, of course, the effort is inconsistent.”
Wembanyama wasn’t the only Spur in the tournament. Rookie Stephon Castle played for Candace’s Rising Stars team, named for WNBA great Candace Parker, that lost 42-35 to Shaq’s OG’s in the first game of the night.
Lillard had nine points and Curry and Jaylen Brown contributed eight points each for the OGs, but Castle acquitted himself well, finishing with six points of 3 for 7, two rebounds, two assists and two steals in 11 minutes.
Castle suggested he and the other Rising Stars had no fear facing the OGs, which also included James Harden and Kyrie Irving.
“We play those guys year round, so we all share the league together,” Castle said. “They’ve been doing that for a minute now, but, at the end of the day, it is still basketball. … We just wanted to go out there and compete, give the crowd a show with the new format.”
One down moment in the game for Castle came when he missed a dunk with the Rising Stars trailing, 17-15.
“I just tried to dunk it too hard, honestly,” he said. “I hit back iron. … I just missed it, really.”
Team Candace earned a berth in the tournament by winning the Rising Stars mini-tournament Friday thanks in large part to a star turn by Castle that earned him MVP honors. Castle also was in the spotlight Saturday night when he went toe to toe with Mac McClung in the Slam Dunk Contest before the Orlando Magic G League became the first player to win the competition three years in a row.
“He performed well on the court and with a lot of media and appearances,” Wembanyama said of Castle. “I’m very proud of him.”
Each player on Team Shaq pocketed $125,000 for the victory. Wembanyama and the other Team Chuck runners-up earned $50,000, while the semifinal losers gained $25,000 each.
Now Wembanyama will turn his attention to trying to rejuvenate the Spurs, who are 12th in the Western Conference, 3 1/2 games behind 10th-place Golden State.
“Defense is the key,” said Wembanyama, who leads the league in blocks with 3.8 per game. “Going back to the status of having one of the best defenses in the league would be a huge help.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News