By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-11-09 11:26:40
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2025年11月8日，星期六，在圣安东尼奥举行的一场NBA比赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德阿隆·福克斯（4号）在下半场持球推进，新奥尔良鹈鹕队前锋米卡·皮维（14号）上前防守。马刺最终以126-119击败鹈鹕。
芝加哥电 – 在目睹马刺队在缺少自己的情况下打出队史最佳开局之一后，德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在周六对阵新奥尔良的赛季首秀中，心中只有一个主要目标。
那就是别把事情搞砸了。
“我不想破坏他们的节奏，因为我觉得我们之前打得很好，”这位全明星后卫说道。“所以对我来说，我就是上场努力帮助球队延续胜利。”
以此为标准，福克斯期待已久的回归之战无疑是一次彻头彻尾的成功。
这是福克斯自3月12日以来的首场NBA比赛，他砍下全队最高的24分，并在比赛还剩29.4秒时命中一记锁定胜局的抛投，率队以126-119击败鹈鹕。
“福克斯还是那个福克斯，”后卫德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 说。“他看起来状态丝毫未减。”
福克斯和马刺队（7胜2负）将前往芝加哥，在周一于联合中心球馆对阵异军突起的公牛队，他们希望胜利的节奏能够继续。
对于福克斯来说，过去的八个月可谓跌宕起伏。马刺队在去年二月的交易截止日通过与萨克拉门托的一笔重磅交易得到了他。
这位27岁的球员为马刺出战了17场比赛，之后在三月份因接受手术而赛季报销。这是他人生中的第一次手术——旨在修复他左手（投篮手）小指的受损韧带。
手术成功恢复后，福克斯又在八月的一次休赛期训练中拉伤了右腿筋。这次受伤直接导致他的赛季首秀被推迟到了十一月。
在此期间，福克斯与马刺队签下了一份队史纪录的四年2.29亿美元的续约合同，将自己与维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 锁定为未来可期的搭档。
当得知腿筋的诊断结果可能推迟他在圣安东尼奥的第二个赛季的开始时，福克斯几近崩溃。
“我没哭，”福克斯说，他以前从未遇到过腿筋问题。“但我确实情绪崩溃了。心想，天哪，我才刚来这里，刚做完手部手术，怎么又发生了这种事。”
康复过程是艰苦的。福克斯放弃了假期，并退出了为他的鞋履品牌在中国举办的宣传活动，全身心投入到恢复工作中。
“我一天都没有缺席，”福克斯说。
等待对福克斯而言是一种煎熬。
训练营开始时，他坚信自己已经痊愈并渴望上场。在第一次训练前，马刺队的运动表现团队测得福克斯的冲刺速度达到了每小时15英里。
尽管如此，当季前赛开始时，医疗团队仍禁止他完全参与训练或比赛。
尽管内心焦急，福克斯还是理解甚至感激马刺队对他的谨慎态度。
“作为一名竞争者，我当然想上场，但我听从他们的安排，”福克斯说。“他们是为了我好。我签下了一份长期合同，所以他们想保护球队的资产，并确保当我上场时，这个资产是准备就绪的。”
直到两周前，福克斯才自三月以来首次恢复了全场5对5对抗训练赛。
考虑到这么长的休战期，福克斯在对阵鹈鹕的比赛中慢慢地寻找比赛节奏，他在第一节出战7分半钟，仅出手2次，一分未得。
然后，第二节开始，福克斯又变回了我们熟悉的那个福克斯。
福克斯在这一节狂砍15分，其中一度连得13分。
“他就是突然找到了感觉，而且进入状态非常快，”瓦塞尔说。“我的意思是，前一秒我们还在想‘他能进一个球吗？’，下一秒就是‘唰、唰、唰’一连串的得分。”
福克斯承认，比赛开始时他确实需要摆脱一些生疏感。即便如此，他对自己在第二节的爆发并不感到惊讶。
“我篮球打得很好，”福克斯笑着说，“所以即便有些生疏，你依然能做到那些事。”
福克斯本场比赛的第三个进球来自于他接到一次底线发球，带球狂奔70英尺，穿过了鹈鹕队的全部五名防守球员，并在禁区内完成一记近距离跳投。
那一刻，福克斯的队友们知道，这位NBA速度最快的球员已经彻底回来了。
“我们以前绝对见过这样的场面，”前锋哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 说，他曾在萨克拉门托与福克斯并肩作战六个赛季，如今在马刺再度联手。
当比赛在第四节末段胜负悬而未决之际，福克斯再次挺身而出。
作为曾经的NBA年度关键球员奖得主，福克斯在比赛还剩不到30秒时，晃过新奥尔良的新秀耶利米·菲尔斯 (Jeremiah Fears)，命中一记近距离倾斜跳投，帮助马刺取得了五分的领先优势。
“他充满活力且极具威胁，”马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说。“他在职业生涯中已经无数次做到这一点。很高兴他能回到场上，希望我们能在此基础上继续进步。”
当然，球队也还有一些需要磨合的细节问题。
周六的比赛仅仅是福克斯与文班亚马并肩作战的第六场。这也是他第一次与后场搭档斯蒂芬·卡斯尔首发登场，这对后场组合未来的化学反应将同样值得关注。
卡斯尔在周六送出了平生涯最高的14次助攻。与此同时，福克斯24分中的22分是在卡斯尔不在场时得到的。
尽管状态生疏，尽管存在磨合问题，福克斯还是在他赛季首秀中完成了他的首要目标。
他没有把任何事情搞砸。
马刺队期待着福克斯未来能带来更多“没搞砸”的精彩表现。
“我们整个夏天都在等待福克斯的回归，”卡斯尔说。“从现在起，他的回归只会让我们变得更好。”
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) drives into the lane on guard Jose Alvarado (15) during the second half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. Fox, playing in his first game of the year, led the Spurs with 24 point to help them beat the Pelicans 126-119.
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox autographs items for fans before the start of an NBA game between the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets in San Antonio, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025.
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The Spurs’ All-Star guard picked up where he left off in his first gam
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) brings the ball up court against New Orleans Pelicans forward Micah Peavy (14) during the second half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. The Spurs beat the Pelicans 126-119.
CHICAGO – After watching the Spurs get off to one of the best starts in franchise history without him, De’Aaron Fox headed into his season debut Saturday against New Orleans with one primary goal in mind.
Just don’t screw it up.
“I don’t want to break their rhythm, because I feel like we’ve played well,” the All-Star guard said. “So for me it was just go out there and try to help the team keep winning.”
With that as the barometer, Fox’s long-awaited return to the Spurs’ lineup was an unmitigated success.
Playing in his first NBA game since March 12, Fox spearheaded a 126-119 victory over the Pelicans by scoring a team-high 24 points, including a game-sealing floater with 29.4 seconds remaining.
“It was Fox being Fox,” guard Devin Vassell said. “It looked like he didn’t miss a beat.”
Fox and the Spurs (7-2) will hope the winning beat goes on as they travel to Chicago for Monday’s game against the upstart Bulls at the United Center.
It has been an eventful eight months for Fox, who the Spurs obtained in a blockbuster swap with Sacramento at last season’s February trade deadline.
The 27-year-old played 17 games with the Spurs before being shut down in March to undergo the first surgery of his life – a procedure to repair a damaged ligament in the pinkie finger of his left (shooting) hand.
Having successfully recovered from that, Fox strained his right hamstring during an offseason workout in August. That injury is the one that nudged Fox’s season debut into November.
In between, Fox signed a Spurs-record four-year, $229-million contract extension to lock himself in as Victor Wembanyama’s running mate for the near future.
Upon learning his hamstring diagnoses would likely postpone the start of his second season in San Antonio, Fox was close to distraught.
“I didn’t cry,” said Fox, who had never had a hamstring issue before. “But I definitely broke down. Like wow, I just got here. I just had surgery on my hand and then this happens.”
The rehab process was rigorous. Fox eschewed a vacation and pulled out of a promotional trip to China for his shoe brand to work on recovery.
“I didn’t miss a day,” Fox said.
The waiting was hard on Fox.
He arrived for the start of training camp convinced he was healthy and clamoring to play. Before the first practice, the Spurs athletic performance staff clocked Fox at 15 mph on a sprint.
Still, the medical staff barred him from fully participating in practices or games when the preseason began.
Fighting impatience, Fox understood and even appreciated the Spurs’ caution with him.
“As a competitor, obviously I wanted to get out there but I’m listening to them,” Fox said. “They have the best interest for me. I signed a contract to be here long term, so they want to protect the asset and make sure the asset is ready when I’m out there.”
It was only two weeks ago that Fox resumed playing in full-court 5-on-5 scrimmages for the first time since March.
Given that layoff, Fox eased his way into things against the Pelicans, going scoreless in the first quarter while attempting only two shots in 7 ½ minutes.
Then, the second quarter began and Fox became Fox again.
Fox poured in 15 points in the frame, including 13 in a row at one point.
“He just got rolling and he got rolling fast,” Vassell said. “I mean it went from, ‘Is he going to make one?’ and next thing you know it’s pow, pow, pow.”
Fox acknowledges he began the day with rust to shake off. Even so, he was not shocked by his second-quarter surge.
“I’m good at basketball,” Fox said with a grin, “so you can still have rust and be able to do that.”
Fox’s third basket of the game came when he took an inbounds pass at one end of the floor, raced 70 feet through all five Pelicans players and completed a short jumper in the paint.
That was the moment Fox’s teammates knew the fastest player in the NBA was all the way back.
“We’ve definitely seen something like that before,” said forward Harrison Barnes, who played six seasons alongside Fox in Sacramento before rejoining forces with the Spurs.
With the game in the balance late in the fourth, Fox struck again.
A one-time NBA Clutch Player of the Year, Fox slipped by New Orleans rookie Jeremiah Fears for a short leaner that gave the Spurs a five-point edge with a little less than 30 seconds to play.
“He’s dynamic,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “He’s done it plenty of times in his career. It’s good to have him back on the court and hopefully we can just continue to build.”
There will be wrinkles to iron out to be sure.
Saturday’s game was only the sixth Fox has played with Wembanyama. It was the first time he shared the starting lineup with backcourt mate Stephon Castle, a partnership that will be equally interesting to monitor going forward.
Castle equaled a career high with 14 assists Saturday. Meanwhile, 22 of Fox’s 24 points came with Castle off the floor.
Despite the rust, despite the kinks, Fox accomplished his predominant goal in his season debut.
He didn’t screw anything up.
The Spurs are looking forward to more of Fox not screwing things up to come.
“We’ve been waiting for Fox to get back really all summer,” Castle said. “It’s only going to help us from here.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News