By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-10-05 13:16:28
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2024年10月26日，星期六，于德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的冰霜银行中心。在下半场比赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋维克托·文班亚马 (1) 在命中一球后展示他的手臂肌肉。在这场赛季首个主场比赛中，马刺队以109-106击败了火箭队。
一年前的这个时候，卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 兴许还有一战之力。
周六，在马刺队内举办的银黑对抗赛开场不久，科内特发现自己正迎面撞上持球冲来的维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)。
文班亚马在接近中场时开始提速，在罚球线附近用一次轻快的垫步为他的冲刺瞬间加速，然后在禁区内猛烈地撞向科内特的胸膛。
当身高7英尺2英寸、体重250磅的科内特被撞得踉跄后退时，文班亚马顺势而起，完成了一记势大力沉的双手暴扣，让冰霜银行中心的10,576名球迷亲眼见证了一位篮球“独角兽”化身为一头狂暴公牛的震撼场面。
“他显然强壮了太多，”科内特在谈到这位瘦长的马刺超级巨星时说。“老实说，他简直就是个怪物。”
文班亚马在队内赛中这次残暴的突破扣篮，是他休赛期增肌计划成果的最有力证明——该计划旨在让这位身高7英尺4英寸的全明星中锋不再被联盟中更为强壮的球员们肆意推挤。
展望2025-26赛季，文班亚马的目标是成为主动施加对抗的一方。
“我想没有多少人经历过我们今年夏天这样的训练，”文班亚马说。“这是我迄今为止最棒的一个夏天。我能说，这种进步简直不可思议。”
文班亚马打算在周一向更广泛的观众再次展示他那尚未申请专利的“文班神体”训练计划的成果，届时马刺队将在主场迎战来自中国联赛的广州龙狮队，开启他们的季前赛征程。
仅仅经过一周的训练营，马上就投入到一场竞技性比赛中，这节奏似乎有些仓促。
但对于21岁的文班亚马来说，周一的比赛早已让他迫不及待。由于血凝块问题，他的第二个NBA赛季在二月份就提前结束了。
“这也许看起来很快，”文班亚马说，“但对我来说，已经等了太久。”
文班亚马充分利用了这段意料之外的休赛期，专注于打磨他的球技和锤炼他的身体。
夏天，他在洛杉矶与马刺队友哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 一同训练了两周，并接受了知名技巧训练师诺阿·拉罗什 (Noah Laroche) 的指导。
他寻求了篮球传奇人物哈基姆·奥拉朱旺 (Hakeem Olajuwon) 和凯文·加内特 (Kevin Garnett) 的一对一指导。他在圣安东尼奥的举重房里挥汗如雨，执行着他用“残酷”和“狂暴”等词来形容的训练方案，不断增肌。
而且，他不停地吃、吃、吃、再吃。
“我觉着自己短期内还到不了肥胖的程度，”文班亚马说，“但我确实吃得非常多。”
文班亚马的好奇心和开放心态引导他尝试了一些独辟蹊径的训练方法。
比如，中国。
文班亚马在郑州的一座佛教寺院度过了10天，向那里的僧侣学习冥想和少林功夫。
他坦然承认，在少林寺学到的招式在NBA赛场上是明令禁止的。他前往郑州的目的，旨在训练他的身体以全新的、不习惯的方式去运作。
“那完全超出了我的舒适区，”文班亚马说，“而这正是我从一开始的意图。”
马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，他对文班亚马今年夏天为让自己变得更强更好而探索的广度“惊叹不已”。
“他思考的那些东西可能只是一个微小的细节，”约翰逊说，“但他觉得，‘如果我能把这个融入我的整个生活、心态，或者随便什么方面……’我敢说，我可没在那个年纪像他那样思考过。”
从纸面数据上看，文班亚马夏天的成果似乎并不起眼。
马刺队公布的文班亚马进入训练营时的体重是240磅，比上赛季末的注册体重增加了5磅。
然而，相比于他2023年选秀日时的体重（根据不同消息源，在210到220磅之间），这次增重代表了一次惊人的蜕变。
无论文班亚马增加的肌肉质量具体是多少磅，他已经能够以更强的力量和更明确的目的去运用它。
问问科内特就知道了，这位替补中锋在周六的对抗赛中，成了文班亚马新力量的直接亲身体验者。
去年夏天，马刺队以一份四年4100万美元的合同签下了自由球员科内特，部分原因就是看中他在篮下阻止对手前进的能力。但这一次，他完全无法阻挡文班亚马。
尽管这只是队内赛中的一个回合，但文班亚马这次碾压科内特的霸王硬上弓式扣篮，足以让对手们夜不能寐。
“一旦他持球攻筐、起速冲向篮下时，现在他能够承受一些身体对抗，并且仍然可以稳定重心、完成攻筐，”科内特说。“这为他真正成为一名进攻巨星奠定了基础。”
无论举起多少哑铃，文班亚马永远不会被误认为是一名职业健美运动员。他的身形构造仍然更像高耸的美洲塔，而非敦实的魔法岩。
然而，得益于一个既残酷又狂暴的休赛期训练方案，文班亚马在进入他的第三个NBA赛季时，已更有能力去移山填海。
“我感觉更好了，看起来更强壮了，体重秤上的数字也变重了，”文班亚马说，“所以一切都已准备就绪，绿灯全开。”
Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs poses for media at San Antonio Spurs Media Day at Victory Capital Performance Center on September 29, 2025 in San Antonio.
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.
After making a shot against the Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) flexes his arm and looks towards the cheering crowd during the second half at Frost Bank Center on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs defeated the Rockets, 109-106, in their first home game of the season.
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 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.
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Body by Vic: How Wembanyama’s offseason could transform the NBA
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) flexes his arm after making a shot against the Houston Rockets during the second half at Frost Bank Center on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas. The Spurs defeated the Rockets, 109-106, in their first home game of the season.
At this time a year ago, Luke Kornet might have stood a chance.
Early in the Spurs’ Silver & Black intrasquad scrimmage Saturday, Kornet found himself staring down the barrel of one Victor Wembanyama bounding toward him with the basketball.
Wembanyama picked up steam near midcourt, took one giddy bunny hop to turbocharge his momentum at the foul line, then crashed forcefully into Kornet’s chest in the paint.
As all 7-foot-2 and 250 pounds of Kornet went stumbling backward, Wembanyama gathered himself for a violent two-handed slam dunk that left 10,576 fans at the Frost Bank Center eyewitness to what happens when a unicorn morphs into a raging bull.
“He’s obviously gotten a lot stronger,” Kornet said of the spindly Spurs superstar. “He can be just honestly a monster.”
Wembanyama’s vicious drive and dunk in the scrimmage was the most evident evidence yet of an offseason muscle-building program aimed to keep the 7-4 All-Star center from getting pushed around by burlier NBA players.
New for the 2025-26 campaign, Wembanyama aims to do some of the pushing around.
“I don’t think many people have trained the way we trained this summer,” Wembanyama said. “It was my best summer so far. I can tell the progress is just incredible.”
Wembanyama intends to offer another advertisement for his not-yet-patented “Body by Vic” program to a wider audience Monday, when the Spurs open their preseason slate with a home game against the Chinese League club Guangzhou Loong-Lions.
With only one week of training camp in the books, it might seem like a quick turnaround toward staging a competitive game.
Monday’s contest cannot come soon enough for the 21-year-old Wembanyama, whose second NBA season ended in February due to a blood clot issue.
“It might seem quick,” Wembanyama said. “But it has been long for me.”
Wembanyama made the most of his unwanted hiatus from basketball by working on his game and his body.
He spent two weeks working out over the summer with Spurs teammate Harrison Barnes in Los Angeles, under the guidance of noted skills trainer Noah Laroche.
He sought the one-on-one tutelage of basketball legends Hakeem Olajuwon and Kevin Garnett. He spent hours in the weight room in San Antonio, packing on muscle with a regimen he describes with adjectives like “brutal” and “violent.”
And, he ate. And ate and ate and ate.
“I don’t think I’ll be obese anytime soon,” Wembanyama said. “But I’ve been eating a lot.”
Wembanyama’s curiousity and open mind led him to training techniques that were off the beaten path.
As in, China.
Wembanyama spent 10 days at the Buddhist monastery in Zhengzhou, learning mediation and Shaolin kung fu from the monks there.
He readily acknowledges the moves he picked up at the Shaolin temple cannot legally be implemented on NBA court. The purpose of his time in Zhengzhou was to train his body to perform in new and unaccustomed ways.
“It was very much out of my comfort zone,” Wembanyama said. “That was my intent from the start.”
Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said he was “in awe” of the lengths Wembanyama explored this summer to make himself a better and stronger player.
“The things he thinks about that may be a small nuance,” Johnson said. “But he feels like, ‘If I can add this to my world being, mindset, whatever it may be.’ … I know I wasn’t thinking like that at that age.”
The results of Wembanyama’s summer of work appear modest enough on paper.
The Spurs listed Wembanyama at 240 pounds heading into training camp, up five pounds from his listed weight at the end of last season.
Yet that gain represents a heady transformation from his weight on draft day 2023, which ranged from 210 to 220 pounds depending on the source.
Whatever the numerical amount of muscle mass Wembanyama has added, he is already deploying it with more power and purpose.
Just ask Kornet, the backup center who found himself on the pointed end of Wembanyama’s newfound strength during Saturday’s scrimmage.
The Spurs signed Kornet to a four-year, $41-million free-agent deal last summer, in part due to his ability to stop opposing players in their tracks near the rim. There was no stopping Wembanyama on this occasion.
Though only one play in one scrimmage, Wembanyama’s bully-ball slam over and through Kornet should be enough to keep opposing players up at night.
“Once he gets around the goal and gets downhill, now he can actually take some bumps and still be able to gather and reach (the rim),” Kornet said. “It’s the foundation for him really being an offensive star.”
No matter how many dumbbells he lifts, Wembanyama is never going to be confused for a professional body builder. His frame is still constructed more like the Tower of Americas than Enchanted Rock.
Thanks to an offseason workout regimen both brutal and violent, however, Wembanyama enters his third NBA season better equipped to move mountains.
“I feel better, I look stronger and the scale says I’m heavier,” Wembanyama said. “So everything is a green light.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News