By MateoMayorga | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-04-27 00:47:00
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。
还有什么是他做不到的？
文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama) 正全身心投入到深静脉血栓(DVT)的康复中，正如他……在哥斯达黎加与孩子们一起踢足球，享受休赛期。令人惊讶的是，他竟然不是守门员。这是他在球场上运球的画面。
7尺4寸的文班亚马在哥斯达黎加踢足球！
那些都是正常身高的人类… pic.twitter.com/NnqYo0V5V8— Courtside Buzz (@ CourtsideBuzzX) 2025年4月24日
嗯，这还不是他休赛期所做的全部，他还在华盛顿广场公园与球迷们下国际象棋。所有这些都让他更加巩固了自己作为NBA最酷球员之一的地位。
我希望在他的休息时间看到的就是这些。他安全地重返赛场，并拓展自己的技能。如果文班亚马的脚步技术继续突飞猛进，也不要感到惊讶。
踢足球对于NBA球员来说可能具有巨大的优势，因为练习这些技术可以提高敏捷性。伟大的 哈基姆·奥拉朱旺(Hakeem Olajuwon) 曾说过，他拥有足球背景是他的“基础”，因为这些动作帮助他做出了致命的假动作和犹豫步。除此之外，根据米林·费德尔的传记《梦》的记载，当被问到他是如何学会如此灵活的移动时，他还在篮球训练营告诉教练皮特·纽维尔：“我踢足球。”
足球也是 科比·布莱恩特(Kobe Bryant) 成长经历的一部分。他在2017年的一次采访中表示，足球帮助他理解了空间和角度。当2009年被问到如果不能打篮球他会做什么时，他说踢足球。他的门徒，前马刺球员 德玛尔·德罗赞(DeMar DeRozan) ，两年前在“老将与三件事”的播客节目中提到，科比鼓励他观看足球比赛，以研究球员们如何移动身体。
文班亚马是一位足球迷，他曾开玩笑地说他“准备好”与法国最大的球队巴黎圣日耳曼足球俱乐部签约。本赛季，人们曾看到他在赛前独自用腿或与 桑德罗·马穆克拉什维利(Sandro Mamukelashvili) 一起颠球。看到如此高大的球员做出这样的动作令人惊叹，而且这些技能很可能帮助他提高了扭矩和反应速度，并且很好地练习了在人群中扭动身体。
希望文班为了最大限度地提升自己作为一名篮球运动员的水平，能够更多地涉猎其他运动。人们可以从不同运动的理念中学到很多有价值的东西，并将其应用到自己的运动中。举个例子，热火队教练 埃里克·斯波尔斯特拉(Erik Spoelstra) 曾在2011年向俄勒冈州的橄榄球教练 奇普·凯利(Chip Kelly) 寻求建议，以改进迈阿密的进攻。这些想法，加上伟大球员的执行，帮助热火队赢得了背靠背的总冠军。
我想知道文班亚马将在2025-26赛季帮助马刺队带来什么样的跳脱框架的思考。
点击查看原文：Victor Wembanyama’s interest in other sports is part of what makes him great
Victor Wembanyama’s interest in other sports is part of what makes him great
What can’t he do?
Victor Wembanyama is fully engaged with his rehabilitation from DVT as shown by him … enjoying the offseason while playing soccer with kids in Costa Rica. Amazingly, he wasn’t the keeper. Here he is dribbling on the field.
7’4” Victor Wembanyama playing soccer in Costa Rica!
Those are normal sized humans… pic.twitter.com/NnqYo0V5V8— Courtside Buzz (@ CourtsideBuzzX) April 24, 2025
Well, that’s not all he’s been up to an there were chess matches against fans at Washington Square Park as well. It’s all adding to his status as one of the cool guys in the NBA.
This kind of thing is precisely what I want to see from his downtime. He’s safely back in action and diversifying his skills. Don’t be surprised if Wembanyama’s footwork continues to take leaps.
Playing soccer can have enormous advantages for an NBA baller because practicing those techniques improves agility. The great Hakeem Olajuwon said having a background in soccer was his “foundation,” as those motions helped him produce the lethal fakes and hesitation moves that . On top of that, he told coach Pete Newell at his basketball camp, “I play soccer,” when asked how he was taught to move like he had, according to Mirin Fader’s biography, Dream.
Soccer was also a part of Kobe Bryant’s upbringing. He said in a 2017 interview that it helped him understand space and angles. When asked in 2009 what he would do without hoops, he said playing soccer. His disciple, the former Spur DeMar DeRozan, mentioned two years back on “The Old Man and the Three” podcast that Bryant encouraged him to watch soccer to study how the players moved their bodies.
Wembanyama is a soccer fan who has playfully left word that he’s “ready” to sign with the Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, the biggest team in France. He’s been spotted this season juggling by himself with his legs or with Sandro Mamukelashvili before a game. It was remarkable watching someone that big maneuver like that, and those skills have very likely helped his torque plus reaction time and been good practice for contorting his body through traffic.
Hopefully Wemby’s quest for maximizing himself as a basketball player includes more dabbling into other sports. There’s tons of value one can learn from the philosophies of different sports and apply it to their own. Here’s an example. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra sought the counsel of football instructor Chip Kelly in Oregon to improve Miami’s offense in 2011. The ideas, along with great players executing them, helped the Heat win back-to-back titles.
I wonder what kind of outside-the-box thinking Wembanyama will help the Spurs with in 2025-26.
By MateoMayorga, via Pounding The Rock
