By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-11-13 13:40:01
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11月12日，周三，圣安东尼奥，在一场NBA比赛的下半场，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋哈里森·巴恩斯（40号）正持球突破金州勇士队后卫布兰丁·波杰姆斯基（2号）。该场比赛，金州勇士队以123-120击败圣安东尼奥马刺队。
他们叫他“参议员”。
2012年，年仅20岁的哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 来到金州勇士队。他是一位初入NBA、眼神清澈、面孔清秀的新秀，渴望在世界顶级球员中证明自己的一席之地。
只是他的言行举止，却完全不像个新人。
“他是个远超同龄人的成熟家伙，”勇士队全明星后卫斯蒂芬·库里 (Stephen Curry) 说道。“从第一天起就是如此。”
一年后，史蒂夫·科尔 (Steve Kerr) 执教这支冉冉升起的金州勇士队，而“参议员”也得到了“晋升”。
“我们叫他‘巴拉克’，”科尔说。“从我见到他的那一刻起，他就给我一种很有总统范儿的感觉。”
这个绰号，也从一个侧面反映了如今已是马刺队首发前锋、颇具政治家风范的巴恩斯，在NBA征战了多么漫长的岁月。当巴恩斯在2012年10月31日打第一场比赛时，贝拉克·奥巴马 (Barack Obama) 的第一个总统任期都还未结束。
从那时起，这位来自爱荷华州埃姆斯的33岁老将，开启并延续了长达13年的职业生涯。这段经历让他常常能以“前排观众”的身份见证篮球历史，就像一个会跳投的阿甘。
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他曾身处金州勇士队“库里革命”的第一线，并随那支热爱三分的勇士队在2016年赢得总冠军。
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他在达拉斯效力时，正值德克·诺维茨基 (Dirk Nowitzki) 名人堂生涯的末期；2018年，当一位名叫卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Doncic) 的新秀加盟独行侠时，他仍身在阵中。
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在萨克拉门托的六个赛季大多乏善可陈，但巴恩斯是2022-23赛季那支“点亮光束”的国王队的一员，他们终结了当时联盟最长的季后赛荒。
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如今，巴恩斯在马刺队迎来了他的第二个赛季，每场比赛的四节时间里，他都在维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 这座“大马戏棚”下打球。
“能在这个联盟打这么久，我感到无比幸运，”巴恩斯说。“我曾是伟大球队和伟大时刻的一部分，每晚都能亲眼见证伟大的球员。对此，我真的非常感激。”
巴恩斯说，他从每一位与他并肩作战过的伟大球员身上都学到了东西。
他在2012至2016年与库里共事的四个赛季，或许是迄今为止意义最为重大的。
那时的巴恩斯更年轻，也更容易受到影响，尽管外表上看不出来。
2013年12月3日，周二，加州奥克兰，在一场NBA比赛的下半场，金州勇士队的哈里森·巴恩斯（40号）在命中三分后与队友斯蒂芬·库里（30号）庆祝。巴恩斯亲眼见证了斯蒂芬·库里的崛起，并帮助勇士队建立起一个王朝。如今，他与另一位篮球奇才维克托·文班亚马并肩作战。
他亲眼看着库里如何从一个来自戴维森学院的瘦弱射手，一步步成长为MVP和NBA总冠军。
“那些家伙当然各不相同，但我认为他们所有人的共同点就是对技艺的执着，”巴恩斯说。“那就是每晚都渴望打出卓越表现。能够近距离见证这一切，是一种特别的经历。”
多年以来，巴恩斯对他所在球队的奉献同样坚定不移。
他已经连续出战并首发了315场比赛，包括连续三个赛季全勤82场，以及本赛季迄今为止马刺队的全部10场比赛。
自从2021年12月4日效力于萨克拉门托国王队以来，巴恩斯再未缺席过任何一场比赛。
这也很好地解释了，为何巴恩斯总能出现在篮球史上一些最伟大球员的身边，成为他们阵容中重要的一员。
“当你的阵中有一名球员，在可靠性和稳定性上都有着一贯的高标准时……这能帮助教练拼凑出当晚比赛的战术拼图，”马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说。“而他，就是稳定性的代名词。”
在像周三这样的夜晚，当37岁的库里砍下赛季新高的46分，将金州勇士队从悬崖边拉了回来，并以125-120击败马刺队时，巴恩斯不禁回想起自己年轻时的岁月。
库里的表现堪称“老而弥坚”，他在第三节狂砍22分，点燃了勇士队下半场的反击火焰，并帮助球队克服了来自文班亚马和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 的双双三双数据。
马刺队和勇士队将于周五在霜冻银行中心迎来一场复赛，这场比赛的胜负将计入NBA阿联酋航空杯的小组赛排名。
当周三被问及为何在自己的第16个赛季仍不断鞭策自己时——此时他早已功成名就——库里念出了勇士队为2025-26赛季选定的团队口号。
把握当下 (Chase the Moment)。
“就是那种感觉，”库里说。“除了总冠军，这真的与个人荣誉或成就无关。这关乎的是像今晚这样的时刻——当你身处一场鏖战，15名球员必须想尽办法赢下比赛，因为这里有关乎骄傲和期望。你就是为这些时刻而活。”
巴恩斯曾与库里并肩经历过那些时刻。如今，他身边的人是文班亚马。
那些最了解巴恩斯的人说，他在NBA的故事还远未结束，在人生道路上更是如此。
当巴恩斯最终告别篮球场时，库里能想象到这位“参议员”会成为一名真正的参议员。
“他很可能会回到爱荷华州，成为一名公职人员，”库里说。“我能预见他的未来会是这样。”
但那是未来才需要考虑的抱负。
周五晚上，巴恩斯将做他一直在做的事情。
他将穿上NBA球衣，站在这项运动史上最伟大的超级巨星之一身旁，去追逐下一个属于他的时刻。
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) hits a 3-pointer during the second half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Friday, Nov. 7, 2025. Barnes led the Spurs with 24 points to help San Antonio beat Houston 121-110.
Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (1) catches a pass as San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) defends during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Mike Christy)
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) makes a pass around Toronto Raptors forward Brandon Ingram (3) during an NBA game at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025.
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) congratulates forward Harrison Barnes (40) on making a basket during the second half of the Spurs NBA game with the Golden State Warriors at the Frost Bank Center on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 in San Antonio. The Spurs beat the Warriors 104-94.
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) tries to strip the ball from New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson (1) as Williamson works against forward Victor Wembanyama (1) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Peter Forest)
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How Spurs’ Harrison Barnes became the NBA’s version of Forrest Gump
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) drives past Golden State Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski (2) during the second half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. Golden State beat San Antonio 123-120.
They called him The Senator.
Harrison Barnes was 20 years old when he arrived at Golden State in 2012, a wide-eyed, fresh-faced rookie new to the NBA and eager to establish his place among the best players in the world.
He just didn’t act like it.
“He was a guy who was wise beyond his years,” Warriors All-Star guard Stephen Curry said. “From Day 1.”
A year later, Steve Kerr showed up to coach an up-and-coming Golden State squad, and The Senator got a promotion.
“We called him Barack,” Kerr said. “He felt very presidential from the moment I met him.”
That moniker offers one measure of how long the statesman-like Barnes, now a Spurs’ starting forward, has stuck around the NBA. When Barnes played his first game, on Oct. 31, 2012, Barack Obama was still in his first term.
Since then, the 33-year-old native of Ames, Iowa, has pieced together a 13-year career that has often afforded him a front-row seat to basketball history, like Forrest Gump with a jump shot.
He was on the front lines of the Curry revolution at Golden State, winning a title with the 3-point happy Warriors in 2016.
He played in Dallas at the tail end of Dirk Nowitzki’s Hall of Fame career, and was still with the Mavericks in 2018, when a rookie named Luka Doncic joined the club.
Six seasons in Sacramento were mostly fallow, but Barnes was part of the 2022-23 “Light the Beam” Kings squad that snapped the longest active playoff drought in the league.
Now Barnes is in his second season with the Spurs, where he spends four quarters a night under the Victor Wembanyama big top.
“I’m extremely blessed to be in the league for this long,” Barnes said. “I have been a part of great teams, great moments, witnessed great players every night. It’s definitely something that I’m very appreciative for.”
Barnes said he absorbed a bit of something from every great player he has called a teammate.
His four seasons with Curry from 2012 to 2016 might have meant the most so far.
Barnes was younger and more impressionable then, even if it didn’t outwardly show.
Golden State Warriors’ Harrison Barnes (40) celebrates his three-point basket with teammate Stephen Curry (30) during the second half of an NBA basketball game on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. Barnes had a front-row seat for the rise of Stephen Curry and helped build the Warriors into a dynasty. Now, he plays with another basketball phenom in Victor Wembanyama.
He watched as Curry shaped himself from a skinny shooter from Davidson into an MVP and an NBA champion.
“All those guys are for sure different, but I think the commonality in all of them is the commitment to the craft,” Barnes said. “It’s wanting to be great every single night. Having a front-row seat to that has been special.”
Over the years, Barnes’ commitment to his teams has been equally unwavering.
He has played and started in 315 consecutive games, including all 82 in three straight seasons and each of the Spurs’ 10 outings so far in this campaign.
Barnes has not missed a game since Dec. 4, 2021, with Sacramento.
It’s as good an explanation as any for why Barnes keeps rounding out rosters next to some of the greatest players the game has ever known.
“When you have a consistent standard of reliability and dependability on what you’re going to bring and how you’re going to play, it helps (a coach) put together the puzzle for that night,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “And he’s as consistent as it gets.”
On nights like Wednesday, when the 37-year-old Curry scored a season-high 46 points to bring Golden State back from the brink and beat the Spurs 125-120, Barnes cannot help but have flashbacks to his younger days.
Curry was brilliantly vintage, pumping in 22 third-quarter points to fuel the Warriors’ second-half comeback and help them overcome a pair of triple-doubles from Wembanyama and Stephon Castle.
The Spurs and Warriors face a rematch Friday at the Frost Bank Center, in a game that will count toward the NBA Emirates Cup group play standings.
Asked Wednesday why he continues to push himself in his 16th season, having long since accomplished everything that is possible to accomplish in the game, Curry recited the slogan the Warriors have selected as a team to guide their 2025-26 campaign.
Chase the Moment.
“That’s kind of the feeling,” Curry said. “It’s not really (about) an accolade thing or an accomplishment, other than a championship. It’s moments like tonight when you’re in a fight and 15 guys gotta try to find a way to win a game because there’s pride and there’s expectations. You live for those moments.”
Barnes once stood side-by-side with Curry through those moments. Now he is with Wembanyama.
Those who know Barnes best say he isn’t close to being done making his mark in the NBA, and even less so in life.
When Barnes finally does step away from basketball, Curry can envision The Senator becoming an actual senator.
“He’s probably going to go back to Iowa and be a public servant,” Curry said. “I see that in his future.”
That is an aspiration for another time.
Friday night, Barnes will do what he has always done.
He will slip on an NBA jersey, take his place next to one of the game’s all-time superstars and go chase another moment.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News