By Mike Finger, Columnist | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-01-08 12:44:09
2025年12月23日，星期二，圣安东尼奥马刺队在主场弗罗斯特银行中心迎战俄克拉荷马城雷霆队。在第四节比赛中，杰里米·索汉（中）与队友林迪·沃特斯三世和凯尔登·约翰逊拥抱，一同观战。最终马刺以130-110击败雷霆。
杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 是一个四海为家的人。他流淌着波兰的血液，出生于俄克拉荷马，成长在英国。
他生性不羁，却机缘巧合下来到德州。
他能与任何人打成一片，但这有时也会成为一种劣势。有时，处处皆是归宿的感觉，就像四海无家，从十几岁到成年，年复一年的迁徙更强化了这种漂泊无根之感。
最终，索汉在一个他开始称之为家的地方安顿下来，这里有墨西哥玉米饼、独特的文化和理解他的热情人民。但这位效力于马刺队的四年级前锋并不天真。
他看得懂技术统计，看得清球队氛围，也看得明未来走向。
他知道，自己可能很快又要踏上征程。
“我努力活在当下，专注于眼前，”索汉说道。“但你不可能不去想（被交易）这件事。”
数据很少能完全概括索汉在篮球比赛中的影响力，但它们确实揭示了他目前的困境。在过去五个多星期的大部分时间里，他是一支采用九人或十人轮换阵容球队中的第十一号球员。
同时，他的新秀合同也进入了最后几个月，而马刺队在去年夏天选择不与他提前续约。作为一名身处防守悍将云集但缺乏投射能力球队中的出色防守者，他本赛季29%的三分命中率与他整个职业生涯的数据持平。
所有这一切都表明，这位能与任何人融洽相处的“世界之人”，在他所说的“这是我的家”的这个地方，或许并非最佳人选。
他一直是个好队友，一个热情的助威者，一个随时待命的贡献者。当主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在周二和周三的比赛中让他获得了罕见的上场时间时，他以一贯的防守强度做出了回应，甚至在战胜湖人队的比赛中命中了两个干净利落的三分球。
但如果马刺在下个月的交易截止日前进行交易，索汉很有可能会成为筹码之一。即使他没被交易，球队似乎也不太可能在今年夏天与他续约。尽管在过去一个月里，他一直努力保持状态，但这位乐于在场上扮演“惹事生非”角色的23岁年轻人承认，在接受现实的过程中，他也曾有过“黑暗的日子”。
“我不会骗你们说一切都阳光灿烂、一帆风顺，”索汉说。“有些时候，情况确实非常艰难。”
艰难，并非因为他想离开圣安东尼奥。如果真是那样，事情反而会简单一些。
索汉的青少年篮球生涯曾带他从英国的白金汉郡到南安普顿，在新冠疫情爆发前就读于印第安纳州的一所预科学校，之后又辗转伦敦，最终落脚贝勒大学。他热爱作为一名马刺球员。去年夏天，他带着斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 游览了西班牙。一天晚上，他和维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 毫无预告地出现在圣安东尼奥的一个足球场，一起踢了一场野球。
每当他不可避免地激怒对手时，无论是史蒂文·亚当斯 (Steven Adams)、狄龙·布鲁克斯 (Dillon Brooks) 还是湖人队的贾里德·范德比尔特 (Jarred Vanderbilt)，他的队友们总是乐在其中，并永远做他坚强的后盾。
“我知道他希望自己能有更多机会，”文班亚马说。“但他的努力程度是毋庸置疑的。”
尽管马刺的教练组也同意这一评价——约翰逊本周盛赞索汉在对阵灰熊和湖人的比赛中展现的能量——但他更像是一道保险，而非不可或缺的一员。
这位NBA选秀中的9号秀，在出场时间的顺位上已经落后于新秀卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant)，部分原因在于马刺认为布莱恩特有潜力成为像索汉一样出色的防守者，同时具备更高的进攻潜力。
因此，管理层当然至少要考虑用他交易一名射手的可能性。索汉明白这一点，即使他努力不去想它。
“我可以找出各种各样的借口和理由，但归根结底，重要的是要记住我是谁，”索汉说。“即使你暂时看不到光，但我相信，只要你继续努力，把精力和思想放在正确的地方，你总会在某个地方找到它。”
然而，索汉能在那个让他感觉像家的地方找到它多久呢？
他无法确定。
“我觉得我在这座城市倾注了大量的鲜血与汗水，”索汉说。“我就是这样的人。无论我身在何处，我都会倾尽所有。而我现在就在这里。”
有时候，“此时此刻”就必须足够。
对于一个四海为家的人来说。
San Antonio Spurs’ Jeremy Sochan, center, embraces his teammates Lindy Waters III and Keldon Johnson as they watch their teammates take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
San Antonio Spurs’ Jeremy Sochan, center, embraces his teammates Lindy Waters III and Keldon Johnson as they watch their teammates take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
San Antonio Spurs’ Jeremy Sochan, center, embraces his teammates Lindy Waters III and Keldon Johnson as they watch their teammates take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
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Will Spurs trade Jeremy Sochan? ‘It’s impossible not to think about’
San Antonio Spurs’ Jeremy Sochan, center, embraces his teammates Lindy Waters III and Keldon Johnson as they watch their teammates take on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
Jeremy Sochan is a man of the world. Polish by blood, Oklahoman by birth, British by raising.
Bohemian by nature, Texan by chance.
He fits in with anybody, but there can be a downside to that. Sometimes belonging everywhere can feel like belonging nowhere, and from his early teens into adulthood, moving every year reinforced that rootlessness.
Eventually Sochan settled into a place he started calling home, with tacos and culture and warm people who understood him. But the fourth-year Spurs forward is not naïve.
He can read the box scores. He can read the room. He can read the writing on the wall.
And he knows he soon might be on the move again.
“I try to think in the present moment and what is now,” Sochan said. “But it’s impossible not to think about (being traded).”
Numbers rarely encapsulate Sochan’s impact on a basketball game, but they do tell the story of his current predicament. For most of the last five weeks, he’s been the 11th guy on a team using a nine- or 10-man rotation.
He’s also entering the last few months of a rookie contract that the Spurs chose not to extend last summer. An excellent defender on a team loaded with defense but lacking shooting, his 29% success rate from the 3-point line this season matches the number for his entire career.
All of this is to say that the man of the world who fits in with anybody might not be an optimal fit in the one place where he says, “This is my home.”
He’s been a good teammate, an enthusiastic cheerleader, a ready contributor. When coach Mitch Johnson called on him Tuesday and Wednesday nights for some rare minutes, he responded with his usual defensive intensity and even a couple of 3-point swishes in a victory over the Lakers.
But if the Spurs make a trade before next month’s deadline, there’s a distinct chance Sochan will be in it. Even if he’s not, it doesn’t seem likely they’ll re-sign him this summer. And even as he’s tried to stay ready over the past month, the 23-year-old who delights in being an on-court instigator admits he’s had “dark days” coming to terms with the reality of the situation.
“I’m not going to lie to you guys and say it was rainbows and sunshine all day,” Sochan said. “There’s been moments where it’s been very hard.”
It’s been hard not because he wants to get out of San Antonio. It almost would be easier if that were the case.
But Sochan, whose youth basketball career took him from Buckinghamshire to Southhampton in England, and from prep school in Indiana before the COVID-19 pandemic to London and then Baylor afterwards, loves being a Spur. Last summer he took Stephon Castle and Devin Vassell on a tour of Spain. One night, he and Victor Wembanyama showed up unannounced at a San Antonio soccer field and played in a pickup game together.
When he inevitably riles up an opponent, whether it’s Steven Adams or Dillon Brooks or the Lakers’ Jarred Vanderbilt, his teammates always get a kick out of it, and always have his back.
“I know he wishes he had his chance more,” Wembanyama said. “Effort is never a question for him.”
But even though the Spurs’ coaching staff agrees with that assessment — Johnson raved this week about how Sochan’s energy was felt against both the Grizzlies and the Lakers — he’s more of an insurance policy than an integral piece.
The No. 9 overall pick in the NBA draft has fallen behind rookie Carter Bryant in the playing-time pecking order, partly because the Spurs see in Bryant a prospect with the potential to defend as well as Sochan with more offensive upside.
So, of course, the front office has to at least consider the possibility of trading him for a shooter. Sochan knows this, even if he tries not to dwell on it.
“I can think of all the excuses and the reasons (why), but at the end of the day, it’s important for me to remember who I am,” Sochan said. “And even if you can’t see the light, I think if you keep working and put your efforts and your mind in the right place, you’re always going to find it somewhere.”
How long will Sochan find it in the one place that feels like home, though?
He can’t be sure.
“I feel like I put a lot of blood and sweat here in this city,” Sochan said. “That’s who I am. I’m going to put all of that into wherever I am. And I’m here right now.”
And sometimes “right now” has to be enough.
For a man of the world.
By Mike Finger, Columnist, via San Antonio Express-News