By Zach Harper | The Athletic, 2025-12-15 14:37:57
The Athletic 正在实时报道2025年NBA季中锦标赛决赛 马刺对阵尼克斯。
每周一，我们都会为您带来NBA的最新动态。本周的头条故事属于维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 和他的戏剧性回归。他击败了几乎整个赛季都所向披靡的俄克拉荷马城雷霆队。这也为本周的重头戏——周二圣安东尼奥马刺队在2025年NBA季中锦标赛决赛中对阵纽约尼克斯队——做足了铺垫。
和往常一样，我们先从NBA实力榜的详尽版开始，这是The Bounce周一的固定栏目。The Bounce是我们的 免费NBA新闻邮件，欢迎订阅，订阅后您每天都可以在收件箱中收到。
NBA实力榜（详尽版）
纽约尼克斯 (18-7)。 周六晚，尼克斯队以一场令人信服且相对轻松的胜利击败了奥兰多魔术队，延续了他们的连胜势头，并成功闯入周二的季中锦标赛决赛。尽管底特律活塞队拥有东部最佳战绩，但尼克斯队看起来在东部独一档。战胜魔术队是纽约的第五场连胜，也是他们近10场比赛中的第九场胜利。
尼克斯队拥有联盟第二的进攻火力，百回合得到122.0分。他们投篮手感滚烫，而且失误控制得很好。更重要的是，他们的防守强度显著提升。在过去10场比赛中，尼克斯队的防守效率排名第七，这也让他们本赛季的该项排名上升至第11位。杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 在迈克·布朗 (Mike Brown) 的进攻体系中如鱼得水，而他们做到这一切，还是在卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 投篮表现不如往常的情况下。
多伦多猛龙 (15-11)。 在赛季前几周，猛龙队战绩一度提升至15胜7负，前景一片大好，但如今情况已急转直下。他们遭遇了四连败，且全部是在主场。就对手而言，这些失利本身并不算太糟糕。好吧……他们确实被夏洛特黄蜂队打爆了，这不可接受。但输给洛杉矶湖人队、波士顿凯尔特人队和尼克斯队则完全可以理解。猛龙队目前仍在东部前六的行列中勉强维持，RJ·巴雷特 (RJ Barrett) 是他们目前唯一遭遇严重伤病的球员。
在这波四连败期间，他们在攻防两端都表现糟糕。投篮不进，失误频频，篮板糟糕，防守形同虚设。但如果你想寻找积极的一面，那就是当他们确实能把球投进时，能通过助攻创造出大量得分机会。所以球的转移还在，这是个好迹象，说明球队没有陷入个人单打的泥潭。多伦多接下来的六场比赛中有五场是客场。其中三场将对阵强敌，另外三场将面对缺少了扬尼斯的密尔沃基雄鹿队、布鲁克林篮网队和华盛顿奇才队。取得4胜2负的战绩将是朝着正确方向迈出的坚实一步。
丹佛掘金 (18-6)。 过去几周我们看到掘金队遭遇了一些奇怪的失利，比如输给了萨克拉门托国王队，或是败给了达拉斯独行侠队。诚然，他们缺少了几名首发球员，但他们仍然拥有尼古拉·约基奇 (Nikola Jokić)。即使有这些失利，掘金队刚刚完成了一段四连客之旅，并赢下了所有比赛。他们先后前往印第安纳、亚特兰大、夏洛特和萨克拉门托并顺利取胜。除了老鹰队，其他对手的实力或许不会让你立刻冲向体育博彩公司把钱押在他们的未来上。然而，掘金队在客场的统治力一直令人印象深刻。
掘金队主场战绩仅为6胜4负，但客场战绩却高达12胜2负。我们已经习惯了吹嘘他们“丹佛高原”的主场优势，但现在反而是客场比赛在提升他们的战绩。阿隆·戈登 (Aaron Gordon)（腿筋）和克里斯蒂安·布劳恩 (Christian Braun)（脚踝）的回归还需要数周时间，但掘金队看起来状态非常好。由于俄克拉荷马城雷霆队的统治级表现，这支球队有些被忽视了，这很奇怪，因为他们似乎是唯一有希望在季后赛系列赛中击败雷霆的球队。但掘金队已经在为可能在科罗拉多州之外进行的抢七大战进行演练了。
奥兰多魔术队的健康状况。 在过去一个半赛季里，我们很难判断魔术队到底能达到什么水平。主要因为他们的核心球员不断遭遇重大伤病。去年，保罗·班凯罗 (Paolo Banchero) 和弗朗茨·瓦格纳 (Franz Wagner) 因腹斜肌伤势缺阵，两人的伤病时间几乎是前后脚接踵而至。杰伦·萨格斯 (Jalen Suggs) 上赛季也只打了35场比赛。他们是球队薪资表上以及其他球队球探报告中的三位核心人物。这个赛季呢？历史似乎又在重演。班凯罗在最近复出前连续缺席了10场比赛。现在瓦格纳又因高位脚踝扭伤而缺阵，预计将休战约一个月。
在周六晚季中锦标赛半决赛输给尼克斯队的比赛中，萨格斯似乎又遭遇了另一处足以令人担忧的伤病。他此前已经带伤作战了一段时间。如果他将缺席更多重要比赛，这虽不会毁掉魔术队的赛季，但也无助于他们兑现夏天得到德斯蒙德·贝恩 (Desmond Bane) 后所拥有的潜力。未来我们可能得用气泡膜把他们包裹起来了。
孟菲斯灰熊 (11-14)。 近一个月前，灰熊队刚刚遭遇五连败，战绩跌至4胜11负。贾·莫兰特 (Ja Morant) 闷闷不乐，球队气氛混乱，一支本应在豪强林立的西部竞争附加赛席位的球队，看起来却应该把重心放在选秀考察上了。从那以后，灰熊队基本上扭转了颓势。他们在过去10场比赛中赢了7场，至少战胜了他们应该战胜的对手。他们战胜了萨克拉门托国王队（两次）、洛杉矶快船队（两次）、新奥尔良鹈鹕队、达拉斯独行侠队和波特兰开拓者队。这份手下败将的名单算不上星光熠熠，但这也是一支“出色”的灰熊队应该做到的。如果他们周五没有输给犹他爵士队，情况会看起来更好。
卡姆·斯潘塞 (Cam Spencer) 是帮助灰熊队维持局面的角色球员之一。(马修·史密斯 / Imagn Images)
令人鼓舞的迹象是，莫兰特在这些比赛中只打了一场。在等待他回归期间，灰熊队不仅生存了下来，还打得有声有色。杰伦·威尔斯 (Jaylen Wells)、桑蒂·阿尔达马 (Santi Aldama) 和斯潘塞是孟菲斯近10场比赛的头号得分手们。他们的进攻数据并不惊艳，但效率极高——在此期间进攻效率排名第十。但灰熊队战胜这些球队靠的是凝聚一致的防守。自11月20日以来，孟菲斯队的防守效率高居联盟第三，这正是我们期待这支球队所展现的特质。
波特兰开拓者 (10-16)。 开拓者队本赛季一直在苦苦挣扎。他们的后卫线伤兵满营。感觉……像是整个后卫线都伤了。我们仍未看到斯库特·亨德森 (Scoot Henderson) 的身影，而且我们知道本赛季也见不到达米安·利拉德 (Damian Lillard) 了。昌西·比卢普斯 (Chauncey Billups) 因一桩涉及黑手党的联邦非法赌博案而被捕。尽管如此，波特兰在很多比赛中看起来都相当不错。直到最近。他们在过去八场比赛中只赢了两场。至少，战胜克利夫兰骑士队和金州勇士队的两场胜利令人印象深刻。
开拓者队经历了联盟中最艰难的赛程之一。在此期间，他们的防守处于联盟平均水平，但进攻却惨不忍睹。这段时间里，只有多伦多、芝加哥公牛队和萨克拉门托的得分表现比他们更差。波特兰队似乎无法保护好球权，也投不进足够多的球来弥补失误。一个健康的后卫线将对解决失误问题大有帮助。
NBA季中锦标赛。 嘿！我认为在我们即将迎来第三届决赛之际，可以放心地说NBA季中锦标赛是成功的。当联盟决定用这项赛事来为赛季头一两个月注入额外活力时，我和任何人一样持怀疑态度。这些年来，那些花里胡哨的锦标赛球场让我们所有人都辣眼睛。然而，季中锦标赛的氛围对联盟来说非常棒。人们正逐渐习惯它，而在拉斯维加斯T-Mobile球馆举行的半决赛，现场气氛相当火爆。而且那还是在场馆没有坐满的情况下。我认为季中锦标赛还有很多调整和改进的空间，但举办三年后，很难再说这是一个坏主意了。
俄克拉荷马城雷霆 (24-2)。 这帮家伙居然连队史纪录的17连胜都拿不到？切。
未来一周展望：NBA季中锦标赛决赛
周二晚上，马刺队和尼克斯队将为NBA季中锦标赛的奖杯展开争夺。尽管每个人和每个组织都喜欢一座新的奖杯以及在主场上空悬挂一面新旗帜的潜力，但对球员来说，真正的奖赏是那笔将打入他们银行账户的额外奖金。为获胜球队的每位球员悬赏50万美元，足以让他们肾上腺素飙升。如果你是输球的一方，你“只能”拿到20万美元作为安慰奖。我个人认为，如果输球的一方一分钱都拿不到，比赛的竞争性会更强。
无论如何，我们迎来了一场非常有趣的对决，对阵双方本赛季还从未交过手。让我们来分析一下：
• 有什么关键伤病吗？ 尼克斯队的杜斯·麦克布莱德 (Deuce McBride) 因脚踝受伤缺阵。马刺队方面似乎伤病名单上一片空白。
• 布伦森能在多大程度上扛起尼克斯队？ 马刺队不乏运动能力出色的侧翼球员可以轮番对位布伦森，试图干扰他。但问题是，猛龙队和魔术队也拥有同样类型的人员和能力。布伦森在他们面前合计砍下75分，对阵多伦多得到35分，对阵奥兰多得到40分。对阵魔术队时，布伦森的16个进球中有12个来自禁区，面对那样的防守，这令人印象深刻。尼克斯队会试图让像卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 和哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 这样的球员换防到布伦森面前，以获得更大的优势。他现在正处于得分的“心流”状态。
• 维克托·文班亚马能在多大程度上扛起马刺队？ 极有可能是体现在防守端。当文班在场时，马刺队是我们近段时间以来见过的最顶级的防守球队之一。在进攻端，文班亚马同样有机会给尼克斯队施加巨大压力。我预计OG·阿努诺比 (OG Anunoby) 或米卡尔·布里奇斯 (Mikal Bridges) 会花大量时间来防守文班。球队们喜欢用身材更小、身体对抗性强的侧翼/前锋来防守他，并由速度快的后卫和内线大个子随时协防。这种策略能迫使对手出现大量失误，但文班也能在协防到位前在任何人头顶完成投篮。他还能制造一些犯规。如果他能让阿努诺比或布里奇斯早早陷入犯规麻烦，那将给纽约队带来巨大压力。
• 对尼克斯队来说，关键数据是什么？ 三分命中率。尼克斯队是联盟中最擅长投三分的球队之一。他们的三分出手频率已跃升至第七位，命中率则排在第五。这是他们进攻火力提升的重要组成部分。相对于联盟其他球队，马刺队通常不给对手太多三分出手机会，但他们让对手投出了很高的命中率。他们限制对手三分命中率的表现在联盟排名第24。而且即使文班在场时，这一点也没有太大变化。
• 对马刺队来说，关键数据是什么？ 防守篮板。尼克斯队拥有联盟第四高的进攻篮板率，这主要归功于像米切尔·罗宾逊 (Mitchell Robinson) 和约什·哈特 (Josh Hart) 这样的球员对机会的积极拼抢。他们通过拼抢延续进攻回合，并在对方防守阵型混乱时找到射手。马刺队是NBA防守篮板第二好的球队。这还是在文班亚马缺席了大量比赛的情况下。如果他们能将尼克斯队的进攻限制在一击不中就结束，他们将处于非常有利的赢球位置。
• 尼克斯队的X因素是谁？ 唐斯。他们需要他避免陷入犯规麻烦，并为马刺队的进攻提供一些阻力。此外，他还需要命中投篮。当尼克斯队赢球时，他的三分命中率为41.4%。而当尼克斯队输球时，他的命中率则降至23.7%。
• 马刺队的X因素是谁？ 德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell)。我们看到他在对阵雷霆队的下半场命中了一些关键投篮，并以23分领衔全队。与上文的唐斯类似，马刺队赢球时瓦塞尔的三分命中率为44.0%，而输球时，他的远投命中率仅为31.0%。
• 在拉斯维加斯，谁拥有主场优势？ 在中立场地各自的比赛中，尼克斯队和马刺队的球迷都非常响亮。这两队的球迷群体很可能都为这场比赛远道而来。我想说，除了赌球的人，文班可能会赢得所有没有特定支持对象的观众的心。等等，我们在拉斯维加斯。那种观众不存在的。
• 谁将赢得奖杯和奖金？ 我站文班和马刺队。毕竟，他们刚刚击败了雷霆队。
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。
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NBA Rewind: The Knicks are red hot, and we’re warming up to the NBA Cup
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Every Monday, we catch you up on the happenings in the NBA. This week’s big story is Victor Wembanyama and his dramatic return. He took down an Oklahoma City Thunder team that has been invincible pretty much all season. It set up the marquee event of the week: the San Antonio Spurs taking on the New York Knicks in Tuesday’s 2025 NBA Cup final.
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NBA Stock Report Extended
New York Knicks (18-7). A convincing, relatively easy win against the Orlando Magic Saturday night kept the Knicks rolling and put them in Tuesday’s NBA Cup final. Even though the Detroit Pistons have the Eastern Conference’s best record, the Knicks look to be in a class by themselves in the East. The win over Orlando was New York’s fifth straight and its ninth win in its last 10 games.
The Knicks have the second-best offense in the NBA at 122.0 points per 100 possessions. They’re shooting the lights out, and they’re not turning the ball over. More importantly, their defense has really picked up. In the last 10 games, the Knicks are seventh in defensive rating, which moves them up to 11th on the season. Jalen Brunson has been thriving in Mike Brown’s offense, and they’re doing all of this with Karl-Anthony Towns not shooting the ball like we’re used to seeing.
Toronto Raptors (15-11). After the Raptors improved to 15-7 and looked super promising in the first few weeks of the season, things have come back down to earth. They’ve lost four straight games, all at home. The losses themselves aren’t bad ones in terms of opponents. Well … they did get blown out by the Charlotte Hornets, and that’s not acceptable. But losing to the LA Lakers, Boston Celtics and Knicks is very understandable. The Raptors are still just barely in the top six in the East, and RJ Barrett is their only player with a significant injury right now.
They’ve been bad on both ends of the floor during this four-game losing streak. Shots aren’t falling. Turnovers are high. Their rebounding has been poor. They can’t stop anybody. But if you want to look for a positive, they are generating a lot of assisted buckets when they do actually make shots. So ball movement is there, and that’s a good sign for things not bogging down into individual ball. Five of Toronto’s next six games are on the road. Three of them will be against good opponents. Three will be against the Giannis-less Milwaukee Bucks, the Brooklyn Nets and Washington Wizards. Going 4-2 would be a good move in the right direction.
Denver Nuggets (18-6). We’ve seen some odd losses by the Nuggets over the last couple weeks, like when they dropped a game to the Sacramento Kings or when they fell to the Dallas Mavericks. Granted, they’re missing a couple of starters, but they still have Nikola Jokić. Even with those losses, the Nuggets just completed a four-game road trip and won all of those games. They went into Indiana, Atlanta, Charlotte and Sacramento to take care of business. Other than the Hawks, that won’t exactly make you run to a sportsbook and throw money down on their futures. However, Denver’s road dominance has been impressive.
The Nuggets are just 6-4 at home, but they’re 12-2 on the road. We’re so used to boasting about their mile-high home-court advantage, and yet it’s the away games that are boosting their record. They’re still weeks away from getting Aaron Gordon (hamstring) and Christian Braun (ankle) back on the court, but Denver looks really good. Because of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s dominance, this team has flown under the radar a bit, which is odd considering they are seemingly the only team with a hope of taking down OKC in a playoff series. But Denver is already practicing for a potential Game 7 outside of Colorado.
Orlando Magic’s health. Over the last season and a half, it’s been really tough to get a read on what the Magic can do. Mostly because they keep suffering big injuries to key core players. Last year, Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner missed time with oblique injuries that were basically staggered on top of each other. Jalen Suggs also only played 35 games last season. Those were their three main guys on the payroll and on other scouting reports. This season? It’s beginning to look like deja vu all over again. Banchero missed 10 straight games before coming back recently. Now Wagner is out again after suffering a high-ankle sprain and is expected to miss about a month.
In Saturday night’s Cup semifinal loss to the Knicks, Suggs seemed to suffer another injury that’s concerning enough. He’d already been battling some injuries and fighting through it on the court. If he’s going to miss any more significant time, it won’t tank the Magic’s season. But it also won’t help them realize the potential they had after acquiring Desmond Bane over the summer. We may need to put them in bubble wrap moving forward.
Memphis Grizzlies (11-14). Nearly a month ago, the Grizzlies had just lost five straight games to fall to 4-11. Ja Morant was grumpy, things felt chaotic and a team that was supposed to compete for a Play-In Tournament spot in the vaunted West was looking like it should be focused on scouting the draft. Since then, the Grizzlies have mostly righted the ship. They’ve won seven of their last 10 games, at least beating the competition they’re supposed to beat. They have wins against the Sacramento Kings (twice), LA Clippers (twice), New Orleans Pelicans, Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers. Not exactly a murderers’ row, but this is also what a “good” Grizzlies team should be doing. It would look a lot better if they hadn’t dropped a game to the Utah Jazz on Friday.
Cam Spencer is one of the role players helping keep the Grizzlies afloat. (Matthew Smith / Imagn Images)
The encouraging sign is that Morant only played in one of those games. The Grizzlies have been surviving and thriving as they wait for him to get back. Jaylen Wells, Santi Aldama and Cam Spencer have been Memphis’ leading scorers in the last 10 games. The offense hasn’t been eye-popping, but it’s been super efficient — 10th in offensive rating during this stretch. But the Grizzlies are beating these teams by pulling it all together defensively. Memphis is ranked third in defense since Nov. 20, and that’s the identity we expect from this franchise.
Portland Trail Blazers (10-16). The Blazers have been battling quite a bit this season. They have injuries to their backcourt. Like … the entire backcourt, it seems. We still haven’t seen Scoot Henderson, and we know we won’t see Damian Lillard this season. Chauncey Billups was arrested in a federal case about illegal gambling involving the mafia. And yet, Portland has looked really good in a lot of games. That is, until recently. It has won just two of its last eight games. The two wins against the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors were impressive, at least.
The Blazers have had one of the toughest schedules in the NBA. Their defense is about league average during this stretch, but their offense has been brutal. Only Toronto, the Chicago Bulls and Sacramento are scoring worse during this stretch. Portland can’t seem to take care of the ball and isn’t making enough shots to make up for it. A healthy backcourt would really help the turnover problems.
The NBA Cup. Hey! I think it’s safe to say the NBA Cup is a success as we come up to the final in Year 3. I was as skeptical as anybody when the league decided this was going to be the thing that gave extra juice to the first month or two of the season. We all had our eyes bleed with the Cup courts over the years. However, the Cup environment has been great for the league. People are getting used to it, and the energy in the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the semifinals was pretty electric. And that’s with the building not being full either. I think there are plenty of tweaks and ways to improve the Cup, but three years in, it’s hard to argue this is a bad idea.
OKC Thunder (24-2). These guys couldn’t even win a franchise record 17th game in a row? Pffft.
The Week Ahead: The NBA Cup final
The Spurs and Knicks battle for the NBA Cup trophy Tuesday night. As much as everybody and every organization likes a new trophy and the potential to hang a banner in their rafters, the real prize here for the players is the extra money that will hit their bank accounts. You can get those juices flowing by dangling $500,000 per player for the winning team. If you’re on the losing team, you “only” get $200,000 for your troubles. Personally, I think you’d add even more competitive spirit by giving zero dollars to the losing team.
Regardless, we have a very interesting matchup between two teams that have not yet played each other this season. Let’s break it down:
• Any key injuries? The Knicks’ Deuce McBride is out with an ankle injury. The Spurs appear to have a clean injury report.
• How much can Brunson carry the Knicks? The Spurs have no shortage of athletic wings to throw at Brunson to try to disrupt him. The thing about that is the Raptors and Magic had the same type of personnel and capabilities. Brunson lit them up for a combined 75 points, with 35 against Toronto and 40 against Orlando. Brunson had 12 of his 16 buckets against the Magic in the paint, which is impressive against that defense. The Knicks will try to get guys like Luke Kornet and Harrison Barnes switched onto Brunson for an even greater advantage. He’s in a scoring flow state right now.
• How much can Victor Wembanyama carry the Spurs? It’s going to come on the defensive end, most likely. The Spurs are one of the more elite defenses we’ve seen in a while when Wemby is on the court. Offensively, Wembanyama has a chance to put a lot of pressure on the Knicks as well. I would assume OG Anunoby or Mikal Bridges will see a lot of time guarding Wemby. Teams want to put the smaller, physical wing/forward on him and bring help with quick guards and big men roaming in help. That can force a lot of turnovers, but Wemby can also shoot over anybody before the help gets there. He can also draw some fouls. If he gets Anunoby or Bridges into foul trouble early, that will put immense pressure on New York.
• What’s the key stat for the Knicks? 3-point percentage. The Knicks are one of the best in the league at making 3-pointers. They’ve jumped to the seventh-highest rate of 3-point attempts, and they’re fifth in accuracy. It’s a big part of their offensive increase. The Spurs don’t typically give up a lot of 3-pointers, relative to the rest of the league. But they allow a high percentage of makes. They’re 24th in opponent 3-point percentage. And there isn’t a big shift with Wemby on the court, either.
• What’s the key stat for the Spurs? Defensive rebounds. The Knicks have the league’s fourth-highest offensive rebounding percentage, mostly thanks to guys like Mitchell Robinson and Josh Hart hounding those opportunities. They keep possessions alive and find shooters as the defense scrambles. The Spurs are the second-best defensive rebounding team in the NBA. That’s with Wembanyama missing so much time, too. If they can keep the Knicks to one shot and done on offense, they’ll be in a great position to win.
• Who’s the X-Factor for the Knicks? Towns. They’ll need him to stay out of foul trouble and provide some resistance to the Spurs’ attack. Also, he’ll need to knock down shots. When the Knicks win, he hits 41.4 percent of his 3-pointers. When the Knicks lose, his percentage drops to 23.7 percent.
• Who’s the X-Factor for the Spurs? Devin Vassell. We saw him knock down some massive shots in the second half against the Thunder, and he led the Spurs with 23 points. Similar to KAT above, the Spurs wins see Vassell knock down 44.0 percent of 3-pointers. In their losses, he shoots just 31.0 percent from deep.
• Who has the crowd advantage in Vegas? Knicks and Spurs fans were both pretty loud in their respective games on the neutral court. It’s possible that both of these fan bases really traveled for this one. I’d say Wemby might sway everybody who doesn’t have a rooting interest outside of gambling. Wait, we’re in Vegas. That doesn’t exist.
• Who wins the trophy and the money? I’m rolling with Wemby and the Spurs. They just beat the Thunder, after all.
By Zach Harper, via The Athletic