By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-12-26 13:21:23
圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋维克托·文班亚马（1号）在第一节比赛中，于俄克拉荷马城雷霆队中锋切特·霍姆格伦（7号）头上出手投篮。摄于2025年12月23日，周二，圣安东尼奥冰霜银行中心。
年少老成的维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 知道何时该谨言慎行——即便他的球队已成为全NBA的焦点。
势头正盛的马刺队（23胜7负）将在周六晚上的主场比赛中迎战战绩不佳的爵士队，他们正带着一波八连胜的势头。这波连胜包括了在13天内三度击败西部领头羊俄克拉荷马城雷霆队（26胜5负）。但文班亚马并没有吹嘘他们的成就，包括在三天内两次击败雷霆，场均净胜17.5分，并借此赢得了双方本赛季五场系列赛的胜利。
当周四在俄克拉荷马城以117-102取胜后，有记者提问马刺是否向联盟其他球队发出了一个宣言——他们不仅要终结球队连续六年的季后赛荒，还要在季后赛中走得更远时，文班亚马回答道：“也许是，也许不是，但我们专注于本赛季剩下的比赛。”
文班亚马补充道：“这是一个非常漫长的赛季。我们甚至还没打到一半，所以我不确定现在就考虑那么遥远的未来是否明智。”
但这位21岁的法国人对此充满信心：在过去18场比赛中赢下15场，并拥有联盟第三好战绩的马刺，通过与雷霆的三场较量，已经充分了解了如何与卫冕冠军抗衡并击败他们。
“我们在战术层面学到了很多，”文班亚马说。“我不想透露太多。我想为我们自己保留一些东西。当然，在与他们交手这么多次之后，我们肯定获得了一些情报。”
在送给俄克拉荷马城本赛季主场15场首败的比赛中，马刺队在第一节面对联盟防守第一的球队时砍下41分，克服了早早落后8分的劣势。马刺在第三节一度手握17分的领先优势，并在第四节顶住压力，最终铸就了球队自2018-19赛季后半段豪取九连胜以来的最长连胜纪录。
圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德阿隆·福克斯（4号）在第一节比赛中，于俄克拉荷马城雷霆队后卫亚历克斯·卡鲁索（9号）和阿隆·威金斯（21号）的防守下强行出手。摄于2025年12月23日，周二，圣安东尼奥冰霜银行中心。
在他的圣诞大战首秀中，德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 上半场便砍下29分中的21分，率领马刺取胜。此役，文班亚马替补出场26分钟，也贡献了19分和11个篮板的两双数据。
和文班亚马一样，福克斯也无意在常规赛还剩52场的情况下就开香槟庆祝，尤其是在接下来的三场连续主场赛程中，他们将要对阵东部的两支顶级球队——克利夫兰骑士队和纽约尼克斯队。12月5日，排名第七的骑士队在克利夫兰曾以130-117逆转击败马刺；而12月16日在拉斯维加斯举行的NBA杯比赛中，排名第二的尼克斯队则以124-113苦战胜出。
进入周六对阵爵士队的比赛前，马刺队排名西部第二，落后雷霆2.5个胜场，并决心紧追俄克拉荷马城的脚步。
“作为一支想要争冠的球队，你必须在整个赛季中都保持出色表现，”福克斯说。“大多数总冠军并非来自第五、第六或第七号种子。真正的争冠者通常是那些排名前四的球队，我们必须日复一日地继续建设。我们不会去想赛季末会发生什么，而是着眼于眼前的任何一个对手，并努力赢得那场比赛。”
尽管如此，在创造了队史前30场比赛第四好的开局战绩后，马刺队势头正盛，这一点毋庸置疑。
“我感觉我们本赛季大部分时间的信心都处于历史最高点，”周四得到19分和7次助攻的斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 说道。
马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 这样说道：“球员们都在拼尽全力，努力执行比赛计划。”
而约翰逊和他的教练组制定的比赛计划一直相当奏效。
“他一直非常出色，”周四以第六人身份贡献9分和7个篮板的凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道。
“他做出了恰当的调整，”这位前锋补充道。“从球队层面来看，他领导我们的方式，他临场调整和决策的方式都至关重要。我觉得他做得非常出色。在执教的每一个方面，他都表现得非常棒。”
但文班亚马表示，马刺的成功不仅仅在于战术层面。
“是多种因素共同作用的结果，”这位全明星中锋说。
一个紧密团结的更衣室是其中重要的一环。
“在场下，我们彼此相处融洽，”文班亚马说。“我们每天都乐于投入工作。当然，我们赢球了，这让一切都变得更轻松。但胜利本身也是关门之后所发生的一切的结果。我们所有人都很高兴来上班，我们知道我们会享受其中的乐趣。”
而最大的乐趣来自于胜利之后。
“感觉太棒了，”文班亚马说。“这是我们几个月来所有努力和汗水的结晶。每一场比赛都如此激烈，对你个人消耗巨大，所以获胜的回报简直不可思议。我不知道大脑或血液里是哪种分子，是哪种荷尔蒙在起作用，但那种感觉就是妙不可言。”
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) reacts after making three-pointer over Oklahoma City Thunder guard Alex Caruso (9) during the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) beats on a large drum as the crowd claps in unison following the Spurs’ 130-110 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) pulls down the ball over Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort (5) during the second quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.
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Wembanyama says Spurs focused on season after dominating Thunder
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) goes up for a shot over Oklahoma City Thunder center Chet Holmgren (7) during the first quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.
Wise-beyond-his-years Victor Wembanyama knows when to hold his tongue — even when his team is the talk of the NBA.
The surging Spurs (23-7) carry an eight-game winning streak into Saturday night’s home game against lowly Utah, a streak that includes three victories over West-leading Oklahoma City (26-5) in 13 days. But Wembanyama isn’t bragging about their accomplishments, which include beating the Thunder twice in three days by an average of 17.5 points to clinch the five-game season series.
“Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t, but we’re focused on the rest of the season,” Wembanyama said when asked after the 117-102 win Thursday in Oklahoma City if the Spurs sent a statement to the rest of the league that they not only want to snap the franchise’s six-year playoff drought but make a deep postseason run.
“It’s a very long (season). We’re not even halfway through, so I’m not sure it’s smart to think so far into the future,” Wembanyama added.
But the 21-year-old Frenchman is confident of this much: The three games against the Thunder have given the Spurs, who own the league’s third-best record after winning 15 of their last 18, plenty of knowledge about how to play and beat the defending league champs.
“We learned a lot on the tactical side,” Wembanyama said. “I don’t want to say too much about it. I want to keep something for us. We definitely got some intelligence, of course, after playing them so much.”
In handing Oklahoma City its first loss at home in 15 games, the Spurs scored 41 points in the first period against the league’s top defensive team to overcome an early eight-point deficit. The Spurs enjoyed a 17-point cushion in the third quarter before hanging on in the fourth to forge the club’s longest winning streak since it won nine straight in the second half of the 2018-19 season.
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) goes up for a shot over Oklahoma City Thunder guard Alex Caruso (9) and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Aaron Wiggins (21) during the first quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.
De’Aaron Fox scored 21 of his 29 points in the first half of his Christmas Day debut to lead the Spurs, who also benefited from Wembanyama’s 19-point, 11-rebound double-double in 26 minutes off the bench.
Like Wembanyama, Fox was in no mood to pop champagne with 52 games left in the regular season, especially with matchups against two of the top teams in the East — Cleveland and New York — upcoming in this three-game homestand. The seventh-seeded Cavaliers rallied to beat the Spurs 130-117 on Dec. 5 in Cleveland, while the second-seeded Knicks claimed a hard-fought 124-113 win over San Antonio in the NBA Cup on Dec. 16 in Las Vegas.
The Spurs enter Saturday’s game against the Jazz ranked second in the West, 2.5 games behind the Thunder, and determined to stay on Oklahoma City’s heels.
“As a team that wants to be able to contend, you have to be good through the course of the year,” Fox said. "Most champions don’t come from a team that’s a seventh or sixth or fifth seed. It’s usually those top four seeds that are truly the contenders, and we have to continue to build day by day. We’re not thinking about what’s going to happen at the end of the year, but we look at whatever team is in front of us and we try to win that game. "
Still, there’s no denying the Spurs have plenty of momentum after recording the fourth-best start through 30 games in franchise history.
“I feel our confidence has been at an all-time high really the majority of this season,” said Stephon Castle, who finished with 19 points and seven assists Thursday.
Spurs coach Mitch Johnson put it this way: “The guys are working their butts off, and they’re trying to execute the game plan.”
And the game plans put together by Johnson and his staff have been working quite well.
“He’s been terrific,” said Keldon Johnson, who had nine points and seven rebounds in his sixth-man role Thursday.
“He’s made the proper adjustments,” the forward added. “Team-wise, to see how he leads us, see how he adjusts on the fly and makes decisions and things like that is key. And I feel like he’s been doing an amazing job. Every aspect of coaching, he’s been doing great.”
But there’s more to the Spurs’ success than X’s and O’s, Wembanyama said.
“Multitude of things that are coming together,” the All-Star center said.
A tight-knit locker room ranks high on the list.
“Off the court, we get along with each other,” Wembanyama said. “Every day we’re happy to come to work. Of course, we win, which makes everything easier. But winning is also a symptom of everything that happens behind closed doors. And all of us are happy to come into work. We know we’re going to have fun.”
And the most fun comes after the wins.
“It feels great,” Wembanyama said. “It’s just the embodiment of all the efforts, the sweat we do for months. And each game is so intense and takes so much from you as a person that the reward is just incredible. I don’t know whatever molecule it is in the brain or in the blood, what hormone, but it just feels incredible.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News