By Mike Finger | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-11-05 15:36:26
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。
2025年10月30日，圣安东尼奥，弗罗斯特银行中心，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋维克托·文班亚马 (1号) 在对阵迈阿密热火队的比赛中命中一记三分球后庆祝。马刺队以107-101击败热火队，取得了队史首次5胜0负的开局。
洛杉矶——就在圣安东尼奥的选民们投票决定如何为他的未来主场买单的那个早晨，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 正坐在南加州大学的一块训练场边，谈论着国际象棋。
他解释说，这项运动既能让他在篮球之外获得有益的放松，又能同时磨练他的精神专注力，并将其比作“一石二鸟”。当被问及法语中是否有类似的说法时，文班亚马点了点头。
“Faire d’une pierre deux coups，”他说。“一块石头，两次命中。”
他们也确保了在很长一段时间内，都不必担心失去这个可能成为世界最佳篮球运动员的家伙。
上一次圣安东尼奥人为马刺队的新场馆投票时，后面那部分看起来远没有这么确定。1999年，在NBA改变薪金规则之前，一名明星球员可以在自由球员市场更换球队，而不会因此损失数千万美元的收入。
在那场批准为那座后来成为弗罗斯特银行中心的简陋球馆提供资金的选举结束后的第二天早上，我尊敬的前辈巴克·哈维 (Buck Harvey) 在这个专栏里用一篇文章总结了当时的情况。
“未来25年，我们圣安东尼奥人还能继续拥有马刺队，”哈维写道，“而我们大概也需要用同样长的时间去追问蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan) 是否会留下来。”
2025年11月4日，星期二，圣安东尼奥，马刺体育娱乐公司执行合伙人兼主席彼得·J·霍尔特（Peter J. Holt，左）在River North Icehouse举行的“共同胜利政治行动委员会”选举观票派对上，面对众多人群庆祝B提案的通过，他高喊道：“我们成功了！”
事实证明，他精准地预测了下一轮球馆风波到来的时间点，但当时没人知道，马刺队的年轻新星会多快就让后一个问题变得毫无意义。
那些当时无法预料到邓肯会坚守于此的人，也包括邓肯自己。毕竟，在接下来的那个夏天，他确实登上了飞往奥兰多的飞机，一辆白色加长轿车也确实将他迅速送往与道格·里弗斯 (Doc Rivers) 和格兰特·希尔 (Grant Hill) 的会面，他们三人在那里共同构想着在佛罗里达的长期未来。
但就在整个南德克萨斯都人心惶惶之际，格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 提出了一个更好的愿景，之后的故事，便是那段五枚总冠军戒指和名人堂的传奇历史。
圣安东尼奥成了一个人们期望顶级球员留下的地方，一个天赋异禀的法国少年渴望最终归属的地方，而21世纪的劳资协议更是锦上添花。
可以毫不夸张地认为，如果文班亚马不断签下允许范围内的顶薪续约合同，在未来二十年里一直为马刺队效力，仅薪水一项他就能赚取超过10亿美元。再加上全球范围内的代言机会，这使得在NBA小球市打球的所谓劣势被降到了最低，我们很难找到一个有说服力的经济理由让他离开。
所以，既然又一场选举似乎确保了马刺队将在未来25年继续留在这里，文班亚马未来的决定基本上将取决于篮球本身。而当篮球成为主要标准时，马刺队对于留住他们的建队核心，想必比四分之一个世纪前感到安心得多。
一个历时五年、经过严谨且深思熟虑的重建过程正开始显现红利。拥有过去两届NBA年度最佳新秀，一位有望成为队史第三位该奖项得主的新晋天才少年，外加一位28岁、蓄势待发的全明星球员，马刺队不仅有望在本赛季实现飞跃，更有实力在未来数年内成为总冠军的有力竞争者。
俄克拉荷马城雷霆队是一头猛兽。他们是联盟的卫冕冠军，其囤积的年轻天赋和未来选秀资产堪称恐怖。但在后两个方面，圣安东尼奥也相差不远——或许亚特兰大今年会再送给他们一份来自乐透区的大礼？——而且没有任何地方能为文班亚马提供比这里更好的机会来将雷霆队拉下马。
在周二之前，如果说还存在什么疑问的话，那一定是关于马刺队在努力将一个王朝延续到21世纪30年代时，会把哪个城市称作主场。如果市中心新球馆的推动计划失败了，他们真的会打包离开吗？
现在我们永远不会知道了。选民们确保了这一点，同时他们也确保了另一件事：与我尊敬的前辈不同，我将永远不需要花费太多专栏篇幅去追问这位NBA最出色的年轻球员是否会离开圣安东尼奥。
正如文班亚马会说的那样，“Faire d’une pierre deux coups.”
一石。
二鸟。
或许，也开启了又一个25年的新篇章。
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) reacts as a foul is called on the Miami Heat during the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Heat, 107-101, to secure their first 5-0 start in franchise history.
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) celebrates a Spurs run during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Mike Christy)
Former Mayor Ron Nirenberg embraces an excited San Antonio Spurs fan as they celebrate the passage of Proposition B at an election watch party at River North Icehouse in San Antonio, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Nirenberg publicly backed Propositions A and B before the election.
A large crowd of San Antonio Spurs fans cheer as they watch KSAT News announce the passage of Proposition B on television during an election night watch party at River North Icehouse in San Antonio, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
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With Spurs here to stay, why Victor Wembanyama is, too
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) reacts after making a three-pointer against the Miami Heat at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Heat, 107-101, to secure their first 5-0 start in franchise history.
LOS ANGELES – The morning voters in San Antonio were choosing how to pay for his future home, Victor Wembanyama sat next to a practice court at USC, talking about chess.
He explained how the game provides a healthy escape from basketball while still honing his mental focus, comparing it to “hitting two birds with one stone.” When asked if the French have a comparable phrase for this, Wembanyama nodded.
“Faire d’une pierre deux coups,” he said. “One stone, two hits.”
They also made sure it will be a long while before they have to worry about losing the guy who might become the best basketball player in the world.
The last time San Antonians cast their ballots for a new Spurs building, that second part didn’t seem nearly as certain. In 1999, before the NBA changed its salary rules, a star player could switch teams in free agency without leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table.
And on the morning after the election that approved funding for the tin barn that would become Frost Bank Center? Buck Harvey, my esteemed predecessor, began a column in this space summarizing the situation.
“We’ve got the Spurs to kick around for another 25 years,” Harvey wrote, “and about as long to ask Tim Duncan if he’s staying.”
“Let’s go!" yells Peter J. Holt, left, managing partner and chairman of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, as he celebrates the passage of Proposition B in front of a large crowd during a Win Together PAC election watch party at River North Icehouse in San Antonio on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
As it turned out, he nailed the timing of the next round of arena drama, but nobody knew then how soon the Spurs’ young star would make the second part moot.
Those who couldn’t have predicted Duncan’s commitment back then included Duncan himself. He did, after all, get on that plane to Orlando the next summer, and a white limousine did whisk him to a meeting with Doc Rivers and Grant Hill where the three of them contemplated a long-term future in Florida together.
But with South Texas freaking out, Gregg Popovich made a better pitch, and the rest was five-ring, Hall-of-Fame history.
San Antonio became a place where people expected elite players to stay, and where generationally talented French teenagers wanted to end up, and a 21st-century collective bargaining agreement was just the cherry on top.
It is not unreasonable to think that Wembanyama, if he keeps signing the maximum allowable extensions, can earn more than $1 billion in salary alone by sticking with the Spurs for the next couple of decades. Couple that with worldwide endorsement opportunities that minimize the supposed drawbacks of playing in a small NBA market, and it’s hard to find a compelling financial reason to leave.
So now that another election has made it appear the Spurs are here to stay for another 25 years, Wembanyama’s future decisions essentially will come down to basketball. And with basketball as the main criteria, the Spurs have to feel a lot more secure about keeping their franchise player than they did a quarter-century ago.
A disciplined, deeply thought-out rebuilding process five years in the making is beginning to show dividends. With the last two NBA Rookies of the Year, a new teenaged dynamo with a chance to become their third, plus a 28-year-old All-Star waiting to be unleashed, the Spurs are well-positioned not only to make a leap this season, but to contend for years to come.
Oklahoma City is a beast. The Thunder are the league’s reigning champs, and their stockpile stockpile of young talent and future draft assets is ridiculous. But the San Antonio isn’t far behind them in those latter two areas – might Atlanta award them even more lottery gold this year? – and no place offers Wembanyama a better chance to take the Thunder down.
Before Tuesday, the only question, if there was one, had to do with which city the Spurs would call home while trying to push a dynasty into the 2030s. If the downtown arena push had failed, would they really have packed up and left?
We’ll never know now. The voters made sure of that, and in doing so they made sure of something else: Unlike my esteemed predecessor, I’ll never need to devote much column space asking if the best young player in the NBA will leave San Antonio.
As Wembanyama would say, “Faire d’une pierre deux coups.”
One stone.
Two hits.
And maybe another 25 years, too.
By Mike Finger, via San Antonio Express-News