By Son Q. Trinh | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-06-11 08:14:50
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。
在某个地方，鲍里斯·迪奥 (Boris Diaw) 正在品酒。
如果你觉得俄克拉荷马城雷霆和印第安纳步行者之间的总决赛比赛仿佛已经间隔了数周，实际上只有两天，但我理解你的感受。和任何真正的篮球迷一样，我把这些日子花在了分析维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的每一个休赛期动态（剃了头，拥抱涅槃，诸如此类），并重温圣安东尼奥马刺篮球的美好辉煌岁月。
维克托·文班亚马拜访少林寺僧侣时剃了头（via @ SpursGDP ） #NBA #porvida #圣安东尼奥 #加油马刺 pic.twitter.com/SL7Xaic6iI
— JeffGSpursKENS5 (@ JeffGSpursZone) June 8, 2025
巧合的是，里奇·艾森 (Rich Eisen) 最近采访了伟大的迈克·布林 (Mike Breen)，让他重温了在马刺偶尔（几乎太少）在全国电视直播中比赛时，格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 给他留下深刻印象的那些回忆。布林曾是许多史诗级NBA时刻的现场解说员，比如2016年总决赛克利夫兰骑士在1-3落后金州勇士超级强队的情况下逆转夺冠。他还提到了其他一些他个人最喜欢的时刻，例如2021年密尔沃基雄鹿为这座城市赢得第二座NBA总冠军，2019年多伦多猛龙赢得队史首冠，以及2010年洛杉矶湖人与波士顿凯尔特人之间的抢七大战。
值得一提的是，这位资深全国解说员指出，2014年圣安东尼奥马刺击败迈阿密热火夺冠那次，“ 我认为那是我所见过的最好的团队篮球。 ”他接着提到了“美丽篮球”，并表示：“ 马刺所做的一切，是篮球最美的呈现。 ”谁能反驳一位能娴熟解说NBA比赛，并能协调杰夫·范甘迪 (Jeff Van Gundy) 和马克·杰克逊 (Mark Jackson) 之间争论的人呢？
艾森接着让布林分享他作为内部人士所见证的、最喜欢的一个关于格雷格·波波维奇的故事，布林很高兴地提供了两个：
- 关于那些著名的（且温馨的）队内聚餐，马刺队每次用餐都会举杯，用两个字的祝酒词开始：“敬蒂米。”
- 布林和NBA传奇人物休比·布朗 (Hubie Brown) 正在解说一场马刺对阵纽约尼克斯的比赛，当时马刺队已经很久没有在全国电视上露面了，波波维奇和布朗也有一段时间没见面了。布林回忆起两人见面时，互相拥抱了长达五分钟。毫不夸张地说，格雷格·波波维奇和休比·布朗对篮球的了解，比整个NBA都多，甚至他们遗忘的都比别人知道的要多。
迈克·布林将解说他的第20次NBA总决赛（Bang!），这本身就是一个令人印象深刻的纪录。请务必关注布林、多丽丝·伯克 (Doris Burke) 以及前马刺球员理查德·杰弗森 (Richard Jefferson) 对NBA总决赛第三场的报道。
在那之前，让我们举杯，“敬蒂米和格雷格·波波维奇。”
点击查看原文：ESPN’s Mike Breen thinks the 2014 San Antonio Spurs played the best team ball ever
ESPN’s Mike Breen thinks the 2014 San Antonio Spurs played the best team ball ever
Somewhere, Boris Diaw is drinking wine.
If it feels like it’s been weeks between Finals games between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacers, it’s actually been two days, but I share your sentiment. Like any true basketball fan, I spend those days analyzing Victor Wembanyama’s every off season move (shaved head, embracing nirvana, all of that), and reliving the beautiful glory days of San Antonio Spurs basketball.
Victor Wembanyama shaves his head while visiting w/ monks at a Shaolin temple ( via @ SpursGDP ) #nba #porvida #sanantonio #gospursgo pic.twitter.com/SL7Xaic6iI
— JeffGSpursKENS5 (@ JeffGSpursZone) June 8, 2025
As luck would have it, Rich Eisen recently sat down with the great Mike Breen and had him relive his favorite Gregg Popovich memories during the occasional (almost too rare) times the Spurs played on national television. Breen, who was the play-by-play announcer for epic NBA moments like the 2016 Finals where the Cleveland Cavaliers came back from a 1 – 3 deficit against the Golden State Warriors super team, named several other personal favorites like the Milwaukee Bucks winning the city’s second NBA title in 2021, the Toronto Raptors winning their first title in 2019, and the game 7 clash between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics in 2010.
Notably, the longtime national commentator noted that the 2014 San Antonio Spurs title against the Miami Heat was, “[T]he best team basketball I think I’ve ever seen played.” He went on to name drop “The Beautiful Game” by saying, “what the Spurs did was basketball at its most beautiful.” Who could argue with someone who adeptly calls NBA games and can mediate between Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson?
Eisen went on to ask for Breen’s favorite Gregg Popovich story he witnessed as an insider, which Breen happily provided two:
- Regarding those infamous (and intimate) team dinners, the Spurs started every meal with a two-word toast by raising their glass and saying, “To Timmy.”
- Breen and NBA great Hubie Brown were calling a Spurs game against the New York Knicks when the Spurs had not been on national TV in a while, and Popovich and Brown had not seen each other for quite some time. Breen recalled the two men greeting each other with a five-minute hug. It’s safe to say Gregg Popovich and Hubie Brown have forgotten more about basketball than the entire NBA would ever know.
Mike Breen will be calling his 20th NBA Finals (Bang!), which is an impressive record in of itself. Be sure to catch Breen, Doris Burke, and the former Spurs player formerly known as Richard Jefferson when they cover Game 3 of the NBA Finals.
Until then, let’s raise our glass “To Timmy and Gregg Popovich.”
By Son Q. Trinh, via Pounding The Rock