By Zach Harper | The Athletic, 2025-12-15 13:22:58
The Athletic将为您带来2025年NBA杯决赛 马刺对阵尼克斯 的实时报道。
拉斯维加斯电 — 周六，圣安东尼奥马刺队与俄克拉荷马城雷霆队的NBA杯半决赛一度让人觉得，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的复出只是一场骗局。
我查了一下，看一支球队是否会因为让一名伤愈球员穿上球衣却不让他实际上场，而违反NBA的球员出场政策。马刺队此前已宣布，文班亚马在因小腿拉伤缺席12场比赛后即将回归。无论比赛如何，这本身就是个大新闻。但他复出的首场比赛，对手竟是豪取16连胜的雷霆队，比赛地点在拉斯维加斯，并且事关一张NBA杯决赛的入场券。赛前一周，很多人都在想，如此激烈的对决和氛围，对于一位刚刚伤愈复出的明星球员来说，是否要求太高了。
然而……文班并没有上场。他没有首发，整个第一节都没有出战。这难道是一种策略？他是在热身或拉伸，准备可能登场时，不小心又伤到了什么地方？还是我们只是太没耐心、太多疑了？就在第一节休息时间快结束时，马刺以20-31落后，我们看到文班和四名队友坐在板凳上，听着米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 的指导。接着，他站了起来，脱掉了热身服，全场观众瞬间沸腾。
初步结果令人震惊。
• 他打了3分27秒，马刺就将分差缩小到4分。
• 当他下场后，雷霆在接下来的4分48秒里打出了一波14-2的攻势。
如果文班没有打足够长的时间，马刺根本无法在这场比赛中咬住比分。他在上半场最后3分52秒重新登场。马刺队以一波13-0的攻势结束了第二节，再次将分差追至3分。现在，比赛悬念回来了，只要文班亚马能在下半场获得足够的时间，去冲击那支看似不可阻挡的强敌。
从数据上看，他并非大杀四方。文班在上半场出战7分19秒，得到5分、5个篮板、1次助攻、1次抢断、1次盖帽和3次失误。但马刺在他上场的时间里净胜20分，而场上的直观表现也完全印证了正负值数据。
文班亚马在下半场，特别是在第四节，提升了他的表现。更重要的是，马刺全队都被激活了，开始奋力反击雷霆那令人无解的防守。达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在第三节独得他全场22分中的11分，帮助圣安东尼奥带着领先优势进入第四节。就在那时，文班亚马决定终结对手的连胜，并提醒所有人，他们面前的是一个怎样的难题。最终马刺以111-109获胜，将在周二的冠军赛中对阵纽约尼克斯队。
还记得在2024年巴黎奥运会上，法国队在金牌争夺战中输给美国队之后吗？文班向全世界发出了一个警告。他说他正在从经历中学习，并为未来几年的对手们感到担忧。当被问及他指的是FIBA/奥运会赛场还是NBA时，他澄清道，他的回答是：
“所有地方。”
在对阵雷霆的比赛前，文班亚马称赞尼古拉·约基奇 (Nikola Jokić) 是世界上最全面的进攻球员（这还用说），并表示他认为谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 或扬尼斯·阿德托昆博 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) 可能是当今最好的综合型球员。但他也提到，自己正走在参与这场讨论并最终夺取该头衔的路上。我们都以为他指的是未来的某一天，而不是周六这一天。在第四节，他独得15分，并帮助球队锁定了对雷霆的胜局。这令人瞠目结舌，他似乎将整个球馆都掌控于自己那骷髅杰克般的大手中。
我分不清是马刺球迷大批远征而来，还是人们只是厌倦了雷霆本赛季对所有人的统治，又或者他只是在中立场地征服了观众。但无论现场为他响起的欢呼声有多么响亮，他在场上的表现都更加震撼。或许我们已经忘记了他在赛季初是何等的统治力，也忘记了那种认为联盟已经用更矮小、更强壮的球员找到了防守他的办法是多么荒谬的论调。雷霆队拥有世界上最好的、符合那种所谓“理想模板”的防守者。而他，则像弹走手上爬过的蚂蚁一样，将他们一一轻松拨开。
这个世界正逐渐成为文班的天下，而正如他一年半前所警告的那样，“所有地方”都应该感到担忧了。
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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Victor Wembanyama reminded everyone who he is in Spurs’ NBA Cup win over Thunder
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LAS VEGAS — There was a moment during Saturday’s NBA Cup semifinal game between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder when it started to feel like Victor Wembanyama’s return was a ruse.
I looked up whether a team can violate the NBA’s player participation policy by dressing a player coming off an injury but not actually playing him. The Spurs had declared Wembanyama was coming back after missing 12 games with a calf strain. That would have been big news regardless of the game. But his first game back was going to be against the Thunder, winners of 16 straight games, in Las Vegas, with a spot in the Cup final at stake. A lot of people leading up to the week wondered if that intense of a matchup and environment was asking too much of a star coming off an injury.
Then … Wemby wasn’t playing. He didn’t start, and he didn’t play at all in the first quarter. Was this a gambit? Did he tweak something as he was warming up or stretching before a possible check-in? Were we just being impatient and paranoid? Right before the quarter break was over, with the Spurs down 31-20, we could see Wemby sitting with four teammates on the bench as Mitch Johnson coached them up. Then he stood, and the warmups came off, as the crowd erupted.
The early results were astounding.
• He played three minutes and 27 seconds, and the Spurs cut the deficit to four.
• When he checked out of the game, the Thunder went on a 14-2 run over the next four minutes and 48 seconds.
There was just no way for the Spurs to stay in this game if Wemby didn’t play big minutes. He checked back in for the final 3:52 of the first half. The Spurs finished the second quarter on a 13-0 run to cut the deficit back to three. Now we had a game, as long as Wembanyama could get enough second-half minutes to push a seemingly unstoppable force.
It’s not like he was killing it statistically. Wemby had five points, five rebounds, an assist, a steal, a block and three turnovers in seven minutes and 19 seconds in the first half. But the Spurs were plus-20 on the court in those minutes, and the eye test supported the plus/minus numbers.
Wembanyama turned it up in the second half, specifically in the fourth quarter. More importantly, the Spurs were galvanized and pushing back against the Thunder’s unsolvable defense. De’Aaron Fox scored 11 of his 22 in the third quarter, as San Antonio took the lead into the fourth. That’s when Wembanyama decided to end this winning streak and remind everybody about the problem in front of them. The Spurs won 111-109 and will face the New York Knicks in Tuesday’s championship game.
Remember after France lost the gold medal game to the U.S. in the 2024 Paris Olympics? Wemby offered up a warning to the world. He said he was learning from his experiences and worried for opponents in the next couple of years. He was asked to clarify if he meant in FIBA/Olympics or in the NBA. His answer?
“Everywhere.”
Before the game against OKC, Wembanyama offered up praise of Nikola Jokić as the most complete offensive player in the world (duh) and said he thought Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or Giannis Antetokounmpo might be the best overall players. But he also mentioned he was on his way to being in that conversation and taking that title. We all figured he meant someday. Not Saturday. In the fourth quarter, he scored 15 points and helped close out the victory against the Thunder. It was shocking, and he seemed to have the building in the palm of his Jack Skellington-esque hands.
I couldn’t tell if Spurs fans traveled in big numbers or if people were just sick of the Thunder dominating everybody this season or if he won over the crowd at a neutral site. As loud as the crowd was for him, his game was even louder. Maybe we forgot about how dominant he was to start the season and the ridiculous notion that the league had solved how to defend him by using smaller, physical players. The Thunder have the best defenders in the world of that alleged prototype. He flicked each one away like ants scurrying across his hand.
This is becoming Wemby’s world, and as he warned a year and a half ago, “everywhere” should be worried.
By Zach Harper, via The Athletic