By Mike Finger, Columnist | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-09-29 16:35:14
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2025年9月29日，圣安东尼奥马刺队在Victory Capital Performance Center举行媒体日，队中1号球员维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 正在接受媒体采访。
维克托·文班亚马对此全盘接纳，毫无回避。
无论是那份击碎了他年少时“金刚不坏”幻觉的医学诊断，还是医生们不断向他强调那些在他看来是坏消息的警示之言，他都坦然面对。当然，也包括那种无可否认的感觉——他作为一名“降临地球的本土外星人”，其时光是有限的。
这些念头，换作他人，或许会试图将它们锁进盒子，或驱逐到心灵最深的角落，尤其是在需要专注于依旧充满希望的职业生涯之时。但当周一被问及，在今年夏天环游世界、遍访中国少林寺、日本足球场和NASA训练基地的旅途中，他是如何将处理血栓的恐惧情绪“划分隔离”（compartmentalize）时，文班亚马的回答意味深长。
“为了确保我理解无误，”这位马刺队中锋说道，“请解释一下‘compartmentalize’是什么意思。”
对于文班亚马而言，他之所以需要这个解释，与其说是语言障碍，不如说是他对待……嗯，对待一切事物的态度。在他看来，篮球和生活之间无需划清界限，也没有理由将与僧侣的相处和备战新赛季NBA分门别类，置于不同的盒子中。
这一切本就融为一体。因此，当他解释自己称之为“创伤性经历”——即去年二月发现患有深静脉血栓——如何与“他今年夏天所做的所有事情紧密相连”时，一切都显得顺理成章。
“生命并非永恒，我们总会错过一些经历，”文班亚马在马刺媒体日上说。“这是不可避免的。但我的目标是，尽可能地少错过。”
截至目前，他计划不会缺席自己的第三个NBA赛季，也不会错过将于周二开始的训练营。这将是自去年二月右肩发现血栓以来，文班亚马首次参加的正式训练。在接受外科手术并康复后，他已获得马刺队和联盟的医学许可，目前没有任何官方限制，即便教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 不太可能在下周一的季前赛揭幕战中就让他上场打满40分钟。
在某些方面，看到文班亚马欣然接受一些媒体日上经久不衰的“陈词滥调”，也令人感到鼓舞。
和此前无数NBA球员一样，这位21岁的法国人——马刺队官方名单上他的身高现为7英尺4英寸，而这数据可能还报矮了——谈到夏天的训练让他变得更强、更快，身体状态也达到了生涯最佳。和此前无数NBA球员一样，他声称自己在体能训练上的努力程度超越了以往任何NBA球员。
但对于文班亚马来说，这些陈词滥调总是说不了太久。在谈到增重时，他打趣道：“我想我短期内还不至于变得肥胖。”而在描述他从少林武僧那里学到的踢拳招式时，他指出，或许他可以在篮球场上用上其中一记飞踢，“但只能用一次。”
2025年9月29日，圣安东尼奥马刺队在Victory Capital Performance Center举行媒体日，维克托·文班亚马面对媒体的镜头摆姿势拍照。
至少，他的幽默感正处于巅峰状态。但他的教练有一点可以肯定：文班亚马今夏的任何一次旅行都不是为了寻开心。正如约翰逊所说，他的明星中锋“为了提升自己作为球员和个人的境界，在尝试各种方式时都目标明确。”
“有时我真的对他所达到的层次和他思考的事情感到敬畏，”约翰逊说。“可能只是一个微小的细节，但他会觉得，‘如果我能把这个融入我的世界、我的存在、我的心态，无论什么，它就能帮到我。’”
再说一次，这一切本就融为一体，就像他的健康危机一样。尽管最初的几个小时和几天令人担忧，但马刺队和文班亚马现在都相信，他所患的这种深静脉血栓不会对他的职业生涯或生命构成长期威胁。文班亚马周一重申，“从医学角度来看，完全无需担心”问题复发的可能性。
“这是一段创伤性经历，但从长远来看，我认为它将大有裨益，”文班亚马说，“因为尽管我不希望任何人经历这些，但它确实能让你领悟到一些其他任何事情都无法教会你的道理。”
至于在新赛季开始时，将这些感悟束之高阁，封存在大脑的某个角落？那将完全违背过去七个月的全部意义。
毕竟，文班亚马现在已经完全明白“划分隔离”（compartmentalizing）是什么意思了。
但这并不意味着他非得这么做。
Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs poses for photographs at San Antonio Spurs Media Day at Victory Capital Performance Center on September 29, 2025 in San Antonio.
Victor Wembanyama poses for promotional photos during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season.
Victor Wembanyama poses for promotional photos during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season.
Victor Wembanyama speaks to journalists during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season.
Victor Wembanyama speaks to reporters during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season.
Victor Wembanyama poses for promotional photos during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season.
TOPSHOT - French basketball player Victor Wembanyama poses for promotional photos during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Texas on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES / AFP) (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)
Victor Wembanyama poses for promotional photos during the San Antonio Spurs media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio on September 29, 2025. Wembanyama has been cleared by the team’s medical staff to play for the upcoming season.
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Why Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is embracing every summer lesson
Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs speaks to the media at San Antonio Spurs Media Day at Victory Capital Performance Center on September 29, 2025 in San Antonio.
Victor Wembanyama blocked out none of it.
Not the medical diagnosis that shattered his youthful illusion of invincibility. Not the words of caution from doctors who kept hammering him with what he considered bad news. And certainly not the undeniable feeling that his time as a home-grown alien on Earth is limited.
Those are thoughts others might try to lock in a box, or banish to the deepest corner of the mind, especially when it came time to focus on a still-promising career. But when asked Monday how he compartmentalized the scare of dealing with a blood clot during his globetrotting tour of Chinese Shaolin temples, Japanese soccer fields and NASA training facilities this summer, Wembanyama’s reply spoke volumes.
“Just so I understand,” the Spurs center said, “please explain ‘compartmentalize.’”
For Wembanyama, this need for clarification had less to do with a language barrier than it did with his attitude about, well, everything. The way he sees the world, there is no need to draw a line between basketball and life, and no reason to place hanging out with monks in a different box than preparing for an NBA season.
It’s all part of the same mix. So when he explained how what he called “the traumatic experience” of finding out he had deep vein thrombosis last February was “very much linked to all the stuff (he’d) done this summer,” it made perfect sense.
“Life isn’t forever, and there are some experiences we’re going to miss on,” Wembanyama said at Spurs media day. “It is inevitable. But I’m going to miss on the least that I can.”
As of now, he plans to miss none of his third NBA season or training camp, which begins Tuesday with Wembanyama’s first official practice since a blood clot was discovered in his right shoulder last February. Having recovered from a surgical procedure and received medical clearance from both the Spurs and the league, he faces no formal restrictions, even if coach Mitch Johnson isn’t likely to turn him loose for 40 minutes in the exhibition opener next Monday.
In some ways, it was encouraging to see Wembanyama embracing some time-honored media day clichés.
Like countless NBA players before him, the 21-year-old Frenchman – who’s now officially listed by the Spurs at 7-foot-4, which still might be underselling him – spoke of summer workouts that left him stronger, and faster, and in the best physical shape of his life. Like countless NBA players before him, he spoke of working harder than any NBA player ever had worked on conditioning before.
But with Wembanyama, the clichés never last long. When talking about bulking up, he quipped, “I don’t think I’ll be obese any time soon.” And when describing the moves he learned kickboxing with Shaolin monks, he pointed out that he might be able to use one of those kicks on the basketball court, “but just once.”
Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs faces media crunch as he poses for photographs at San Antonio Spurs Media Day at Victory Capital Performance Center on September 29, 2025 in San Antonio.
So his sense of humor, at least, is in peak form. But one thing his coach knows for sure is that none of Wembanyama’s travels this summer were for laughs. As Johnson put it, his star center is “so intentional on the variety of ways he tries to improve as a player and as a person.”
“I’m in awe sometimes of just the levels that he goes (to) and the things he thinks about,” Johnson said. “It might be a small nuance, but he feels like, ‘If I can add this to my world, being, mindset, whatever, it can help me.’”
Again, it’s all part of the mix, just like his health scare is. As worrying as those first few hours and days were, the Spurs and Wembanyama are now confident that his version of deep vein thrombosis poses no long-term danger to his career or his life, and Wembanyama reiterated Monday that “medically there is no concern at all” about a possible recurrence of the issue.
“It is traumatic, but in the long run I think it’s going to be very beneficial,” Wembanyama said, “because even though I don’t wish it on nobody, it makes you understand lessons that nothing else could have made you understand.”
As for the idea of taking those lessons and banishing them into the corner of his brain when the season begins? That would defeat the whole purpose of the last seven months.
After all, Wembanyama knows full well what “compartmentalizing” means now.
That doesn’t mean he has to do it.
By Mike Finger, Columnist, via San Antonio Express-News