By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-07-05 20:16:02
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。
旧金山——在凯尔·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 19年的人生中，他一直在等待这一刻。
身处旧金山的大通中心球场，胸前绣着马刺队的队标，等待着自己NBA生涯首场比赛的跳球。
记分牌故障可不在他的梦想剧本中。
星期六，在他职业生涯的夏季联赛首战——对阵迈阿密队——正式开始27秒后，布莱恩特不得不再次等待，这一次是为了让场馆工作人员修复卡顿的视频板。
“这是比赛的一部分，”布莱恩特谈到这次小插曲时说道，“不时就会发生一些状况。”
布莱恩特和马刺队都愿意将星期六以82-69输给热火队的比赛中发生的许多事情，归结为“常有之事”。
这位上个月选秀大会的第14顺位新秀，经历了一场有好有坏——但大多是差强人意——的首秀。
没有人会为布莱恩特谨慎的开局感到焦虑。
“这在意料之中，”马刺夏季联赛主教练迈克·诺伊斯 (Mike Noyes) 说道，“第一场比赛，你总是精力充沛。这有点紧张，也有点兴奋。”
星期六，布莱恩特这位来自亚利桑那州的6英尺7英寸前锋，是场上马刺队中选秀顺位最高的球员。
球队2025届选秀中的另一位成员——来自罗格斯大学 (Rutgers) 的榜眼迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper)——因轻微腹股沟伤势缺席，至少要等到下周晚些时候的拉斯维加斯夏季联赛。
布莱恩特以7分5篮板结束了他的首次NBA之旅。他投篮8中3，其中三分线外6投1中。
第四节，他的一次远投不中，球卡在了篮筐和篮板之间，也就是俗称的“夹球”。
在只有夏季联赛才可能发生的意外情况中，布莱恩特还领到了7次犯规。夏季联赛允许球员累计10次犯规。
“他犯了很多规，但我并不在意，”诺伊斯说道，“我宁愿他犯规也要保持侵略性。归根结底，他在场上拼尽全力。他非常在乎。我们会继续进步的。”
赛后，布莱恩特显得泰然自若，他誓言将在马刺队星期天对阵主场作战的金州勇士队（也是在旧金山）的第二场比赛中做出调整。
“第一次和成年人交手，总是会很艰难，”布莱恩特说，“他们会比你更聪明、更快、更强壮。一切都是一次学习的经历。”
至于那些犯规，布莱恩特并不像他的教练那样急于为自己开脱。
布莱恩特说，侵略性犯错是可以接受的。
“那必须是一种明智的侵略性，”布莱恩特说，“我的很多犯规都是愚蠢的侵略性错误。对我来说，最重要的是将来要做出这样的调整。”
在犯规和投篮不中之间，布莱恩特也展现出了一些迹象，说明为什么马刺队选择将他们两枚乐透签中的第二枚用在他身上。
他错失了当天下午的第一次三分尝试，但在哈里森·英格拉姆 (Harrison Ingram) 抢下篮板后，布莱恩特在一次受干扰的远距离投篮中，命中了自己职业生涯的第一个NBA进球。
随后，布莱恩特又命中了两记柔和的中距离跳投，增加了他的得分。
球队要求布莱恩特在今年夏天重点展示他的防守能力，而他在对位选秀第20顺位迈阿密队的卡斯帕拉斯·亚库西奥尼斯 (Kasparas Jakucionis) 时，基本完成了这一任务。
“我们对他抱有极大的信心，”诺伊斯说道。
布莱恩特誓言要回报马刺队对他的信心，从星期天对阵勇士队的比赛开始。
从某种意义上说，布莱恩特在星期六期待已久的NBA首秀中，得到了他所预期的结果。
有些亮点，也有一些不顺利的时刻。无论如何，未来还有一长串待办事项要去完成。
“即使我得了40分或者0分，总会有提升空间，”布莱恩特说道，“这一场比赛并不会定义我的整个职业生涯。”
事实上，到了星期天，这一切基本上已经被遗忘。还有另一场比赛要打。
Carter Bryant walks off the stage after being selected 14th by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the NBA basketball draft, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)
San Antonio Spurs’ first round draft pick Carter Bryant answers questions during a press conference to introduce the San Antonio Spurs’ 2025 Draft picks at Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Saturday, June 28, 2025.
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Spurs’ Carter Bryant sees ‘room for improvement’ in debut
SAN FRANCISCO – For most of his 19 years, Carter Bryant had waited for this moment.
On the floor at the Chase Center in San Francisco, the Spurs’ name stitched across his chest, awaiting tipoff of his first NBA game.
A scoreboard malfunction wasn’t part of the dream.
Twenty-seven seconds after his professional career officially began Saturday – in a Summer League game against Miami – Bryant had to wait again, this time for arena staff to get a frozen video board back online.
“It’s part of the game,” Bryant said of the false start. “Stuff is going to happen every once in a while.”
Bryant and the Spurs are willing to file much of what happened during Saturday’s 82-69 loss to the Heat under the heading of “stuff happens.”
The 14th pick in last month’s draft experienced a debut that was hit or miss – but mostly miss.
Nobody is sweating Bryant’s tentative beginning.
“It went as expected,” Spurs Summer League coach Mike Noyes said. “That first game, you always have so much energy. It’s a little bit of nerves and excitement.”
Bryant, a 6-foot-7 forward from Arizona, was the highest-drafted player on the floor for the Spurs on Saturday.
The other member of the club’s 2025 draft class – No. 2 overall pick Dylan Harper from Rutgers – is out with a mild groin issue at least until the Las Vegas Summer League later next week.
Bryant ended his maiden NBA adventure with seven points and five rebounds. He went 3-of-8 from the floor, including 1 of 6 from the 3-point arc.
One of those long-range misfires in the fourth quarter stuck between the rim and backboard, a so-called “wedgie.”
In a turn of events that can only happen at Summer League, Bryant also picked up seven fouls. Players are allowed 10 in Summer League competition.
“He picked up a bunch fouls, which I don’t care about,” Noyes said. “I’d rather err on the side of being aggressive. At the end of the day, he’s out there competing. He cares so much. We’ll keep getting better.”
Bryant seemed unfazed after the game, vowing to make adjustments for the Spurs’ second game in San Francisco, Sunday against the host Golden State Warriors.
“It was always going to be tough the first time out playing against grown men,” Bryant said. “Guys are going to be smarter, faster, stronger than you. Everything was a learning experience.”
As for all the fouls, Bryant wasn’t as eager to let himself off the hook as his coach was.
Aggressive mistakes are OK, Bryant said.
“It’s got to be a smart aggressive,” Bryant said. “A lot of them were dumb aggressive mistakes. The biggest thing for me is making that adjustment moving forward.”
In between the fouls and the misfires, Bryant showed glimpses of why the Spurs opted to use the second of their two lottery picks on him.
He missed his first 3-point attempt of the afternoon, but after Harrison Ingram snagged the rebound, Bryant made his first NBA bucket on a contested shot from distance.
Later, Bryant knocked down a pair of feathery mid-range jumpers to add to his point total.
The team has asked Bryant to showcase his defense this summer, and he mostly accomplished that while matched against Miami’s Kasparas Jakucionis, the 20th pick in the draft.
“We have the utmost confidence in him,” Noyes said.
Bryant vows to make the Spurs’ confidence in him pay off, starting Sunday against the Warriors.
In a way, Bryant got exactly what he anticipated out of his long-awaited NBA debut Saturday.
There were some good things. There were some rough moments. And no matter what, there was still a lengthy to-do list to accomplish going forward.
“If I had scored 40 or scored zero, there’s always room for improvement,” Bryant said. “This one game is not going to define my whole career.”
In fact, by Sunday it was largely forgotten. There was another game to play.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News