By Mike Finger, Columnist | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-07-03 16:55:26
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。
马刺球星 维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在2025年1月17日与孟菲斯灰熊队的霜银中心比赛前进行他的足球训练。文班亚马近日在东京的一场野球比赛中展现了他的足球技巧，一记惊艳的任意球在网上迅速走红。
在日本最大的陆上风力发电场，46座巨大的涡轮机高耸于阿武隈山脊线上。每座涡轮机的转子长达103米。当它们旋转时，巨大的叶片伸展到山坡上方，然后高高指向天空，再回落至地面，产生的电能足以供12万户家庭使用。
因此，当文班亚马本周早些时候在一片野球场上尝试一记旋转倒钩球时，若说日本民众对此毫无准备，可能并不完全准确。
在一段被秘密拍摄的视频中——这似乎是来自东京一小群围观者中的一人所摄——画面中，球从文班亚马身后高高飞过他的头顶。他左脚稳稳地踩在草皮上，膝盖弯曲成90度角，躯干与地面平行。他那长得不可思议的右腿向上、向上、再向上挥动，就像阿武隈那些103米长的风力涡轮机转子一样。
然而，文班亚马的脚却正好错过了球，他重重地摔在了右肩上。一位目击者发出了一声叹息。文班亚马翻过身来，微笑着。
想必，这次特殊的“旋转”并没有产生任何电力。
当然，圣安东尼奥除外。
回到他所认同的德州主场，“文班热”的“电网”再次启动运行，这在很大程度上归功于这位马刺中锋环球之旅的夏日情景。不到五个月前，一次血栓诊断让一位超级球星的职业生涯暂时停滞，也让一支球队的未来蒙上阴影。
但现在，文班亚马刚从中国的少林寺进行了一次精神休养归来，便在东京将身体扑向足球——这又说明了什么呢？
马刺球星文班亚马在一段新近走红的视频中，似乎在与一位少林僧人对打。
如果他找到了足够的内心平静，不再担心他下一次重重摔倒，那对马刺队来说是个好兆头。
文班亚马目前还没有完全准备好回归篮球场，但这没关系。他计划在周日结束为期10天的日本之行后返回圣安东尼奥，他也不会急于恢复比赛状态。
意料之中，文班亚马的名字被移出了法国队参加2025年欧锦赛的名单，该赛事将从八月下旬持续到九月中旬。考虑到深静脉血栓的治疗时间线，在十月NBA训练营开始时回归，似乎一直都更现实。
但如果有人担心，健康问题挥之不去的影响可能会让这位21岁的法国人在场上回归时变得畏缩，那么他国际旅行中的精彩集锦应该能打消这些疑虑。
上个月，他还在与一位少林僧人进行拳击对练。现在，他正在日本摔得人仰马翻，看起来就像一个能够倒钩射门的贝利，肩上还坐着罗纳尔多。
即使这段视频可能让主教练 米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 的心跳漏了一两拍，也很难将文班亚马在地球另一端的这些“恶作剧”视为坏消息。
毕竟，有些马刺球员在这个休赛期可能会从封闭训练中受益。
但比任何事情都重要的是，文班亚马最需要的是远离训练馆。
他已经太久没有给自己放一个长假了。从2022年夏天开始，那时他还是个少年，在巴黎为大都会92队效力，文班亚马基本上连续30个月从一个篮球场转战到另一个篮球场。法国联赛的季后赛直接衔接了NBA选秀，选秀又紧接着夏季联赛。他的第一个马刺训练营又无缝过渡到了一场艰苦的新秀赛季，他还没来得及喘口气，巴黎奥运会的旋风又接踵而至，随后又是另一个NBA赛季。
去年二月，当马刺队踏上他们一年一度的“牛仔节客场之旅”时，文班亚马注意到，NBA赛季中让他感到沮丧的一件事是，他很少能见到阳光。球队经常在半夜入住酒店，乘坐大巴直接进入球馆的地下装卸区，在那里打完比赛后，又前往另一个机场搭乘另一个通宵航班。
这个夏天，文班亚马却没有这样的匆忙。他在圣安东尼奥、法国、中国和日本都见到了阳光，在那里，巨大涡轮机上旋转的103米长转子可以为一座小城市提供电力。
而一个微笑的“人形风车”——仰卧在地上开怀大笑——的形象，甚至能带来更多。
Wembanyama flexing his soccer skills before the Spurs’ Nov. 20, 2023, game against the Los Angeles Clippers at Frost Bank Center.
In this video screenshot, Spurs star Victor Wembanyama winds up for a free kick at a recent pickup soccer game in Tokyo. The French phenom scored the goal off the top crossbar.
In 2023, San Antonio artist Nik Soupe did a mural of Spurs star Victor Wembanyama several months before the Spurs even selected the French phenom in that year’s NBA Draft.
Nanette Bronder holds up giant heads of Victor Wembanyama and Jeremy Sochan seated next to Stephanie Arch, left, at the Spurs Draft Watch Party at Frost Plaza in La Cantera in San Antonio, Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
Former San Antonio Spurs players David Robinson, from left, Tim Duncan, and current players Victor Wembanyama and Keldon Johnson attend a ceremony held to present Stephon Castle, not pictured, with his 2024-2025 KIA NBA Rookie of the Year trophy at Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Wednesday, April 30, 2025.
Tim Duncan, from left, David Robinson, Stephon Castle and Victor Wembanyama pose for pictures after Castle was presented with his 2024-2025 KIA NBA Rookie of the Year trophy at Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. All four have been named Rookie of the Year while playing for the San Antonio Spurs. Robinson won in 1989-90 season, Duncan won in 1997-98 and Wembanyama won in 2023-2024.
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama reacts as Spurs guard Blake Wesley (14), not pictured, makes a shot over the Toronto Raptors during the second half at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Sunday, April 13, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Raptors 125-118 on Fan Appreciation Night.
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama reacts as Spurs guard Blake Wesley (14), not pictured, makes a shot over the Toronto Raptors during the second half at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Sunday, April 13, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Raptors 125-118 on Fan Appreciation Night.
San Antonio Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama, center, claps as Mitch Johnson is introduced as the new head coach of the San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball team, in San Antonio, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
点击查看原文：Spurs' Victor Wembanyama making comeback during globetrotting summer
Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama making comeback during globetrotting summer
Spurs star Victor Wembanyama goes through his soccer routine before the Jan. 17, 2025, game against the Memphis Grizzlies at Frost Bank Center. Wembanyama recently showcased his soccer skills at a pickup game in Tokyo with a dazzling free kick that’s gone viral.
At the largest onshore wind farm in Japan, 46 gigantic turbines tower above an Abukama ridgeline. Each of the turbines’ rotors is 103 meters long. When they spin, they swing far out over the hillside, then high into the sky, then back toward the earth again, generating enough energy to power 120,000 homes.
So it might not be entirely accurate to say Japanese citizens were unprepared to witness what some of them saw earlier this week, when Victor Wembanyama attempted a whirling bicycle kick on a pickup soccer field.
On a video surreptitiously captured by one of what seemed to be a small group of Tokyo onlookers, there is a moment in which the ball is soaring over Wembanyama’s head from behind him. He plants his left foot in the turf, with his knee bent at a 90-degree angle and his torso parallel to the ground. His impossibly long right leg swings up, up, and up, like one of those 103-meter windmill rotors in Abukama.
Somehow, though, Wembanyama’s foot just misses the ball, and he lands with a thud on his right shoulder. A witness groans. Wembanyama rolls over and smiles.
Presumably, this particular rotation did not produce any electricity.
Outside of San Antonio, that is.
Back in his adopted Texas home, the Wembymania power grid is up and running again, thanks in no small part to scenes from the Spurs center’s globetrotting summer. Less than five months ago, a blood-clot diagnosis put the career of a superstar on hold and the future of a franchise in doubt.
But now that Wembanyama, fresh off a spiritual retreat at China’s Shaolin Temple, is hurtling his body at soccer balls in Tokyo?
Spurs star Victor Wembanyama appears to fight a Shaolin monk in a new viral video.
If he’s found enough inner peace not to worry about his next hard fall, that bodes well for the Spurs.
Wembanyama isn’t quite ready to return to the basketball court yet, and that’s fine. He’s scheduled to return to San Antonio on Sunday after a 10-day visit to Japan, and he won’t be in any rush to get back into game shape.
As expected, Wembanyama’s name was left off France’s roster for EuroBasket 2025, which will run from late August to mid-September. Considering the timeline for treatment of deep vein thrombosis, a return closer to the beginning of NBA training camp in October always seemed more realistic.
But if there was any concern that the lingering fallout from a health scare might make the 21-year-old Frenchman timid in his on-court comeback, the highlight reel of his international travels should dispel some of those fears.
Last month he was throwing punches in a sparring session with a Shaolin monk. Now, he’s going head over heels in Japan, looking like a bicycle-kicking Pele with Ronaldo sitting on his shoulders.
Even if the footage might have caused coach Mitch Johnson’s heart to skip a beat or two, it’s hard to see Wembanyama’s hijinks on the other side of the world as anything but good news.
After all, there were some Spurs who probably would have benefited from spending this offseason locked inside a practice facility.
But more than anything else, Wembanyama needed to be locked out of the gym.
It had been far too long since he’d given himself an extended break. Starting in the summer of 2022, back when he still was a teenager playing for Metropolitans 92 in Paris, Wembanyama essentially moved from one basketball court to the next, for 30 months in a row. The French League playoffs led straight to the NBA draft, which butted up against summer league. His first Spurs training camp fed into a grueling rookie season, and he barely caught his breath from that before the whirlwind of the Paris Olympics, and yet another NBA season.
By the time the Spurs headed out for their annual rodeo road trip last February, Wembanyama noticed that one of the things that frustrated him about an NBA season was that he rarely saw the sun. Teams often check into hotels in the middle of the night, take buses that usher them into underground loading docks at arenas, where they play their game and then head to another airport for another overnight flight.
This summer, Wembanyama has been in no such rush. He’s seen the sun in San Antonio, in France, in China, and in Japan, where spinning 103-meter rotors on giant turbines can power a small city.
And the image of a smiling human windmill, laughing on his back, can do even more.
By Mike Finger, Columnist, via San Antonio Express-News