By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-11-07 14:30:09
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2025年10月30日，星期四，圣安东尼奥，Frost Bank中心。圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德阿隆·福克斯在主场对阵迈阿密热火队的赛前进行训练。当时他仍因伤缺阵。
周五上午，马刺队控球后卫德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 遵循了他已习以为常的比赛日流程。
他穿上装备参加了早上的投篮训练，完成了所有训练项目，并在训练结束后进行了额外的投篮加练。然后，他因左腿筋拉伤，被宣布缺席当晚的比赛——这在本赛季已是八场比赛中的第八次。
终于，这个老掉牙的剧本即将迎来改变。
周五的赛前演练结束几小时后，马刺队官方确认，福克斯将在周六于 Frost Bank 中心进行的一场背靠背比赛中复出，对阵新奥尔良鹈鹕队，迎来他的赛季首秀。
“这太疯狂了，”福克斯在周五比赛前的更衣室里说道。“感觉就像过了一个世纪那么久。”
与此同时，福克斯的队友们早已迫不及待地欢迎他回归。
“我们很想念他，”马刺队前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道。“他将是我们的引擎，他会带动我们全队。”
这位曾一次入选全明星的球员，自上赛季交易截止日从萨克拉门托国王队加盟马刺以来，共为球队出战了17场比赛，场均贡献19.7分。之后，他在三月份因左手（投篮手）小拇指撕裂接受手术而赛季报销。
伤病的困扰在八月份仍在继续，当时福克斯在一次休赛期训练中遭遇了腿筋拉伤。
九月底训练营前夕，这位27岁的球员表示，他感觉自己当时就能上场比赛。
“我认为我已经准备好了，但我没有那方面的专业知识，”福克斯当时说。“我们是根据我的感觉来判断的，而我感觉自己现在就能上场比赛。”
为了避免任何伤病复发的风险，马刺队的医疗团队选择让福克斯缺席了整个训练营和季前赛。常规赛的前七场比赛，他都身着便装在场边观战，而周五对阵休斯顿火箭队的比赛，这一幕本将再次上演。
对于即将到来的、期待已久的赛季首秀，福克斯是否感到兴奋？
“那当然，”他说道。“但我会控制好自己的情绪。”
在福克斯即将回归之前，杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan)、凯利·奥利尼克 (Kelly Olynyk) 和林迪·沃特斯三世 (Lindy Waters III) 也已伤愈复出，他们三人均在周三以116-118不敌洛杉矶湖人队的比赛中完成了赛季首秀。
福克斯之后，下一位有望摆脱伤病名单的马刺球员应该是替补中锋卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet)（脚踝）。到那时——但愿一切顺利——伤病报告上就只剩下新秀后卫迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper)（左小腿拉伤）了。
“我们的球员正在陆续回归，”凯尔登·约翰逊说道，他的球队在周五比赛前取得了5胜2负的开局。“一旦我们全员到齐，那场面会很可怕。”
2025年9月29日，圣安东尼奥，圣安东尼奥马刺队在 Victory Capital Performance Center 举行媒体日活动，德阿隆·福克斯为媒体拍照。
这是福克斯自3月12日以来首次回归阵容，他的复出将在全队上下产生连锁反应，从队内最高的球员（7英尺4英寸的维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)）到最矮的球员（6英尺的替补后卫乔丹·麦克劳克林 (Jordan McLaughlin)），无一例外。
对于文班亚马而言，场上多一个得分威胁点和顶级的挡拆持球手，无疑将减轻他肩上的部分进攻重担。
对于麦克劳克林来说，这意味着他的出场时间将减少，重新回到紧急情况下才会启用的深度替补角色。
而对于马刺队首发阵容中的某位球员——很可能是锋卫摇摆人朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie)——则意味着要回到替补席。
马刺阵中，从福克斯回归中受益最大的球员莫过于斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle)，他在赛季初因球队人手短缺，被推上了主要持球手的位置，但这并非他最擅长的角色。
作为去年的NBA年度最佳新秀，卡斯尔以首发控卫的身份开启了他的二年级赛季，开局表现不俗，场均贡献19.7分和全队最高的5.7次助攻。
但不利的一面是，在周五的比赛前，卡斯尔以场均5次失误领跑全联盟。
在周三惜败洛杉矶的比赛中，他又增添了6次失误。
“很显然，6次失误太多了，他自己也同意这一点，”马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道。“而且在比赛的某些时刻，无论我们是正处于进攻高潮还是关键节点，有些失误是完全不合时宜且不可接受的。”
卡斯尔将自己的失误问题主要归咎于阅读比赛不当。
“我需要找到平衡点，阅读防守，”卡斯尔在谈到如何组织进攻而又不失误时说。“有好几次我的判断都出现了问题……我需要多看比赛录像来改进，尤其是在比赛末段，要打得更简单一些。”
随着福克斯的回归，卡斯尔可以回到他更熟悉的角色——担任第二持球点和无球创造者。
上赛季，他正是以这个角色与克里斯·保罗 (Chris Paul) 共同首发了47场比赛，并最终荣获年度最佳新秀。
一旦马刺队阵中三名宝贵的后卫——福克斯、卡斯尔和哈珀——全部披挂上阵，对于米奇·约翰逊和他的教练组来说，真正的乐趣才刚刚开始。
“他们三个各不相同，”凯尔登·约翰逊说。“福克斯是独一无二的，斯蒂芬是独一无二的，迪伦也是独一无二的。他们能为比赛带来太多与众不同的东西。”
而这个过程的下一步，就在周六——届时，福克斯将打破他那套熟悉的比赛日流程，真正地踏上赛场。
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At long last, De’Aaron Fox set for season debut against Pelicans
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox works out before the home game against the Miami Heat at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Fox is still out due to injury.
On Friday morning, Spurs point guard De’Aaron Fox followed what has become a familiar game-day routine for him.
He dressed out for morning shootaround, participated in all the drills, got some extra shots up at the end of the session and, for the eighth time in eight games this season, was ruled out for that night’s contest with a left hamstring strain.
At last, that worn-out tune is set to change.
A few hours after Friday’s walkthrough, the Spurs confirmed Fox will make his season debut when the Spurs finish a back-to-back at the Frost Bank Center with a game against New Orleans on Saturday.
“It’s crazy,” Fox said in the locker room before Friday’s contest. “It feels like it’s been forever.”
Fox’s teammates, meanwhile, can hardly wait to welcome him back.
“We miss him,” Spurs forward Keldon Johnson said. “He’s going to be the engine for us. He’s going to get us going.”
The one-time All-Star played in 17 games with the Spurs after arriving from Sacramento at last season’s trade deadline, averaging 19.7 points. He was shut down in March to undergo surgery on a torn pinkie finger on his left (shooting) hand.
The medical woes continued in August, when Fox suffered a hamstring strain during an offseason workout.
On the eve of training camp in late September, the 27-year-old Fox said he felt well enough to play right then.
“I think I’m ready, but I don’t have that expertise,” Fox said at the time. “We go off of how I feel and feel like I can go out there and play right now.”
Hoping to avoid any hint of a setback, the Spurs’ medical staff instead kept Fox off the floor for the duration of training camp and the preseason. He spent the first seven games of the regular season in street clothes, a trend he was set to repeat Friday against Houston.
Is Fox getting excited to make his long-awaited season debut?
“Definitely,” he said. “But I’m going to keep my emotions in check.”
Fox’s impending return comes on the heels of injury comebacks from Jeremy Sochan, Kelly Olynyk and Lindy Waters III, each of whom made their season debuts in Wednesday’s 118-116 loss at the L.A. Lakers.
After Fox, backup center Luke Kornet (ankle) should be the next Spur to find his way off the injured list. At that point — knock on wood — only rookie guard Dylan Harper (left calf strain) would remain on the injury report.
“We’re getting our guys back slowly but surely,” said Keldon Johnson, whose team started the season 5-2 heading into Friday. “It’s going to be scary once we get everybody back.”
De’Aaron Fox of the San Antonio Spurs poses for the media at San Antonio Spurs Media Day at Victory Capital Performance Center on September 29, 2025 in San Antonio.
Fox’s return to the lineup for the first time since March 12 will produce effects that reverberate up and down the roster, from the Spurs’ tallest player (the 7-foot-4 Victor Wembanyama) to the shortest (6-foot backup guard Jordan McLaughlin).
For Wembanyama, the presence of another scoring threat and ace pick-and-roll ball-handler on the floor should take a bit of the offensive load off his plate.
For McLaughlin, it should mean fewer minutes as he returns to his role as a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency deep reserve.
For somebody in the Spurs’ starting lineup — possibly swingman Julian Champagnie — it will mean a move to the bench.
No player on the Spurs’ roster stands to benefit more from Fox’s return than Stephon Castle, who has been miscast as the team’s primary ball-handler by default to open the season.
Last year’s NBA Rookie of the Year, Castle is off to a fine start as the team’s starting point guard, averaging 19.7 points and a team-best 5.7 assists to open his sophomore campaign.
On the downside, Castle entered Friday leading the entire NBA in turnovers at five per game.
He added six more in Wednesday’s narrow defeat in Los Angeles.
“Obviously six turnovers is too much, and he agrees with that,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “And there’s times where whether we’re on a run or it’s a certain point in the game, some of the turnovers are just inappropriate and unacceptable.”
Castle blamed his turnover troubles mostly on bad reads.
“I just need to be able to balance it, read the defense,” Castle said of running the offense without being sloppy. “There were a couple of things I saw that were just bad reads … Just need to watch more film on it, and especially late in the game, just make a simple play.”
With Fox set to come back, Castle can slide to his more natural role as a secondary ball-handler and creator off the ball.
He started 47 games next to Chris Paul in that capacity last season on his way to winning Rookie of the Year honors.
Once the Spurs have all three of their prized guards in uniform — Fox, Castle and Harper — the real fun begins for Mitch Johnson and the coaching staff.
“All of them are different,” Keldon Johnson said. “There’s no one like Fox. There’s no one like Steph. There’s no one like Dylan. They bring so many different things to the game.”
The next step in the process comes Saturday, when Fox will break his game-day routine and actually play in a game.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News
