By Jeff McDonald, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-07-08 14:50:56
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2025年7月5日，在加利福尼亚州旧金山大通中心举行的加州经典赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队对阵迈阿密热火队之前，圣安东尼奥马刺队主教练迈克·诺伊斯正准备向球队训话。
旧金山 — 去年夏天，当哈里森·英格拉姆 (Harrison Ingram) 作为二轮秀加入马刺队时，他遇到的第一批人之一就是迈克·诺伊斯 (Mike Noyes)，后者是球队新任球员发展总监。
求知若渴的英格拉姆和精力充沛的诺伊斯很快就形影不离。
“我可能和他在一起的时间比和我父母在一起的时间还要多，”英格拉姆说。
随着诺伊斯获任在旧金山和拉斯维加斯执教马刺的夏季联赛队伍，两人的这种纽带只会进一步加强。
对于诺伊斯来说，这是一个意义重大的机会。这位30岁的NBA新锐在孟菲斯度过了六年之后，于上赛季加入了马刺的教练组。
他对夏季联赛马刺队的目标与主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在秋季训练营开启后对NBA马刺队的目标并无二致。
“我们希望尽可能以最高水平代表马刺队，团结协作，并且我们想要赢球，”诺伊斯说，“我现在扮演的角色不同，但心态是一样的。”
在诺伊斯的带领下，马刺队在加州经典赛中取得了1胜1负的开局，并将于周二在大通中心迎战洛杉矶湖人队，进行收官战。
本周晚些时候，随着夏季联赛的盛会向东移师，为期30支球队的拉斯维加斯夏季联赛将于周四拉开帷幕，届时焦点将更加集中。
夏季联赛也为马刺队的球员发展总监提供了发展机会。过去几位马刺的夏季联赛教练后来都成为了NBA主教练，包括伊姆·乌度卡 (Ime Udoka)、迈克·布登霍尔泽 (Mike Budenholzer)、威尔·哈迪 (Will Hardy) 和雅克·沃恩 (Jacque Vaughn)。
而约翰逊也将在本赛季全职接替传奇教头格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 的职务。贝基·哈蒙 (Becky Hammon) 也从执教夏季联赛马刺队，成长为WNBA两届总冠军教头。
诺伊斯希望有朝一日也能效仿这条道路。
“我还有很多东西要学，”诺伊斯说，“但我感觉自己为这个机会做好了充分准备。”
与此同时，诺伊斯夏季联赛球队中的年轻球员们仍在等待他们这位活力十足的教练，能有一次状态不佳的表现。
然而，至今尚未发生。
“他就是那种从来没有低潮期的人，”英格拉姆说，“他总是充满活力。”
如果诺伊斯的人生走了另一条路，他或许会成为整个新英格兰地区最活力四射的精算师。
诺伊斯在康涅狄格州格兰比 (Granby, Conn.) 长大，那是一个人口不足1.1万的弹丸小镇，位于哈特福德 (Hartford) 东北方向半小时车程处，以及奈史密斯篮球名人堂 (Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame) 所在地马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德 (Springfield, Mass.) 东南方向半小时车程处。
在2013年带领格兰比高中夺得州冠军，度过了一段杰出的高中生涯后，诺伊斯放弃了几所NCAA三级大学（Division III）提供担任控球后卫的邀请，转而选择作为一名普通学生进入康涅狄格大学（Connecticut）。
在康涅狄格大学，诺伊斯以非奖学金球员身份加入了篮球队，并主修精算学。
“那是数学的一个花哨说法，”诺伊斯说。
诺伊斯最终从当时的哈士奇队主教练凯文·奥利 (Kevin Ollie) 那里获得了奖学金，并获得了金融数学硕士学位。
2018年毕业后，诺伊斯原定开始他在哈特福德保险公司 (The Hartford) 的职业生涯，担任精算师。这是一家位于康涅狄格州首府的知名保险和金融公司。
然而，在他上班前三天，孟菲斯灰熊队抛来了橄榄枝，邀请他加入JB·比克斯塔夫 (J.B Bickerstaff) 的教练组，担任数据分析师。
面对将他两大兴趣——数学和篮球——结合起来的机会，诺伊斯决定，保险精算师的生活可以等等。
“它将我的分析背景与篮球背景结合了起来，”诺伊斯说，“我超级兴奋。”
当比克斯塔夫在2018-19赛季结束后被解雇，并由泰勒·詹金斯 (Taylor Jenkins) 取代后，灰熊队仍留下了诺伊斯。
他在孟菲斯逐步晋升，先是成为录像协调员，然后成为球员发展教练。
“我身兼多职，”诺伊斯说，“我认为这让我能够很好地应对面前的一切挑战。”
去年夏天，马刺队将诺伊斯招致麾下，让他领导一个球员发展项目，这对于球队围绕着新星维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 组建一支年轻球队至关重要。
马刺球员们注意到诺伊斯的第一个特点就是，他似乎没有“停止键”。
“他一天中的每一步都和我在一起，”英格拉姆说，“我看到了他投入的时间。他来得早，走得晚。他在这方面确实非常努力。”
不要让诺伊斯无限积极的个性欺骗了你。球员们说，他同样极具好胜心。
“我们做的每件事他都要竞争，”二年级前锋莱利·米尼克斯 (Riley Minix) 说，“前几天我们玩投沙包游戏，他也在竞争。他是一个渴望胜利的终极竞争者。”
在NBA夏季联赛中，赢球往往会退居其次，让位于球员发展。
在诺伊斯的带领下，马刺队希望能够两者兼顾。
San Antonio Spurs Director of Player Development and assistant coach Mike Noyes watches film with San Antonio Spurs guard Keldon Johnson before the game against the New York Knicks at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
San Antonio Spurs Director of Player Development and assistant coach Mike Noyes talks to the team during off-season workshops at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas Monday, June 2, 2025.
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama waves to someone in the crowd as he sits between his teammate Keldon Johnson (0) and assistant coach Mike Noyes during the first quarter against the Brooklyn Nets at Frost Bank Center on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas.
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Who is Spurs Summer League coach Mike Noyes?
San Antonio Spurs head coach Mike Noyes about to address the team prior to the The California Classic for the San Antonio Spurs versus the Miami Heat at the Chase Center in San Fransisco, California on July 5, 2025.
SAN FRANCISCO — When Harrison Ingram joined the Spurs as a second-round draft pick last summer, one of the first people he met was Mike Noyes, the team’s new director of player development.
The eager-to-learn Ingram and tirelessly energetic Noyes soon became sutured at the hip.
“I’ve probably spent more time with him than I’ve spent with my mom and dad,” Ingram said.
With Noyes tabbed to run the Spurs’ Summer League squad in San Francisco and Las Vegas, that bond only stands to strengthen.
The opportunity is a heady one for Noyes, a 30-year-old NBA up-and-comer who joined the Spurs’ staff last season after spending six years in Memphis.
His goals for the Summer Spurs are no different than those coach Mitch Johnson will have for the NBA Spurs once training camp opens in the fall.
“We want to represent the Spurs to the highest level we can, compete together, and we want to win,” Noyes said. “I’m in different shoes right now, but the mentality is the same.”
Under Noyes, the Spurs opened the California Classic at 1-1 heading into Tuesday’s finale against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Chase Center.
The lights will grow brighter later this week, as the summertime circus moves eastward for the start of the 30-team Las Vegas Summer League beginning Thursday.
Summer League represents a development opportunity for the Spurs’ director of player development as well. A handful of past Spurs’ summer coaches have gone on to become NBA head coaches, including Ime Udoka, Mike Budenholzer, Will Hardy, Jacque Vaughn.
And Johnson will take over for the legendary Gregg Popovich full-time this season. Becky Hammon went from guiding the Summer Spurs to becoming a two-time championship-winning coach in the WNBA.
It is a track Noyes would not mind mimicking in time.
“I still have a lot to learn,” Noyes said, “but I feel like I’m well-prepared for this opportunity.”
The youngsters on Noyes’ Summer League team, meanwhile, are still waiting for their irrepressible coach to have a bad day at the office.
It hasn’t happened yet.
“He’s one of those guys who never has a down day,” Ingram said. “He’s always energetic.”
Had life taken a different path for Noyes, he might have ended up becoming the most effervescent actuary in all of New England.
Noyes grew up in Granby, Conn., a flyspeck town of less than 11,000 souls nestled half an hour northeast of Hartford and half an hour southeast of Springfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
After a standout prep career that included a state championship for Granby High in 2013, Noyes eschewed offers to play point guard for a handful of Division III colleges and instead opted to attend Connecticut as a student.
At UConn, Noyes walked onto the basketball team and majored in actuarial science.
“It’s a fancy word for math,” Noyes said.
Noyes eventually earned a scholarship from then-Huskies coach Kevin Ollie and got his master’s degree in financial math.
Upon graduation in 2018, Noyes was set to begin his professional career as an actuary at the Hartford, a well-known insurance and financial company based in Connecticut’s state capital.
Three days before his first day, the Memphis Grizzlies came calling with an offer for him to join J.B Bickerstaff’s staff as a data scientist.
Given the chance to marry his two greatest interests — math and basketball — Noyes decided life as an insurance actuary could wait.
“It combined my analytical background with the basketball background,” Noyes said. “I was super excited.”
When Bickerstaff was fired after the 2018-19 season and replaced by Taylor Jenkins, the Grizzlies kept Noyes aboard.
He rose through the ranks in Memphis, becoming a video coordinator and then a player development coach.
“I wore all sorts of hats,” Noyes said. “I think that has equipped me well to handle whatever’s in front of me.”
The Spurs snatched Noyes away last summer to lead a player development program that will be critical as the franchise looks to build out a young team around burgeoning star Victor Wembanyama.
One of the first things Spurs players noticed about Noyes is that he does not seem to come with an “off” button.
“He’s been with me every step of the day,” Ingram said. “I’ve seen the hours he’s put in. He’s there early. He leaves late. He really works hard at this.”
Don’t let Noyes’ endlessly positive personality fool you. He is also viciously competitive, players say.
“He competes at everything we do,” second-year forward Riley Minix said. “We were playing cornhole the other day, and he was competing at that. He’s the ultimate competitor that wants to win.”
At NBA Summer League, winning often takes a backseat to player development.
In the hands of Noyes, the Spurs are hoping to accomplish both.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News