By Jared Weiss | The Athletic, 2026-01-15 20:59:08
圣安东尼奥电 — 德阿龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 甚至都不知道发生了什么。周四，当他抵达马刺队训练场时，他看到了球队的两位代表人物：凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 和维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)。但他没看到的是他们头上的任何一根头发。
在以98-119不敌俄克拉荷马城雷霆队后，约翰逊和文班亚马回到主场，做了任何人在经历了糟糕的一天工作后都会做的事：他们把自己的头剃光了。
“我猜，当我们输给雷霆时，就会有‘坏事’发生，”福克斯说。“我们飞机一落地，他们就钻进了文班的车里，开始剃头了。”
当然，约翰逊必须分享他那边的故事。他从来都不是个害怕麦克风的人，也从未错过任何凑热闹的机会。原来，约翰逊是嫉妒他最好的朋友们都是光头，他只是想和他们一样。
“所以我告诉所有队友，我要剃个光头，”约翰逊说。“但我们有一场电视直播的比赛，所以我不能在那时剃头。”
在 NBC 电视台全美直播中输给雷霆，恰好为他们提供了一个崭新开始的绝佳时机。马刺队曾在12月份的12天内三次击败雷霆，一度站上 NBA 世界之巅，但在过去10场比赛中又跌回了现实。自从圣诞大战击败雷霆以来，他们取得了4胜6负的战绩，并将西部第二的席位拱手让还给了丹佛掘金队。在文班亚马被雷霆队狠狠教训了一番之后，是时候做出点改变了。
“然后昨晚，文班就说，‘嘿，我们剃光头吧。’我当时就想，‘我靠，那就剃吧！’”约翰逊说。“我一直在找个理由这么干呢。”
凯尔登·约翰逊解释了他和维克托·文班亚马是如何互相剃头的：
“昨晚，文班就说，‘嘿，我们剃光头吧。’我当时就想，‘我靠，那就剃吧！’我的意思是，我一直在找个理由这么干。” pic.twitter.com/UTAMN66l7F
— Jared Weiss (@ JaredWeissNBA) January 15, 2026
他们一下飞机，就搞来了几个电推子，然后就开工了。
“文班剃了我的头，我剃了他的头。没用梯子，”约翰逊说。“不过你知道，我得练练我的技术，我的推子功夫。等这一切都结束了，我也许能当个理发师。”
理发师们风格各异。有些人会把过程变成一场冒险，有些人则只想尽快搞定。有些人沉默寡言，有些人则喋喋不休。不难猜出约翰逊属于哪一类。
“我花了好一会儿。我当时想小心点，因为他被打到了，头上还有个包，”约翰逊说。“所以我想确保一切都顺利。我慢慢来。我得先给他稍微推个渐变，然后给他留了个小锅盖头，接着我们就从那里继续了。”
而另一边的文班亚马则截然不同，他知道必须速战速决，利用队友难得冷静的片刻。约翰逊承认他赛后很兴奋——他总是这样——但在该剃光头的时候却很淡定。
“他干得不错。手脚麻利。说真的，文班大概就用了三分钟，”约翰逊说。“刷刷刷，三下五除二就搞定了。我当时就想，‘哇哦！’”
约翰逊的灵感来自于他的朋友们，而文班亚马实际上在今年夏天在中国与少林武僧一起训练时就剃过光头。
“夏天文班剃头的时候，没人亲眼见过。我们只看到了照片。但这次？对此我无话可说，”福克斯开玩笑说。
你总能指望约翰逊为队友们带来他们所需要的东西，即使那可能不是他们想要的。无论是在更衣室还是在球场上，他都是一个无法忽视的存在。他是第一个会为队友脱下自己上衣的人，尽管他通常根本就不穿上衣。
不出所料，文班亚马和约翰逊的光头造型迅速传开了。当他们在周四以119-101战胜密尔沃基雄鹿队的比赛中踏上球场时，他们可能已经注意到了“豺狼”球迷区里那片粉色假发的海洋。“豺狼”球迷们本计划在比赛期间搞一个集体剃头活动，甚至有几位成员打算在球场大屏幕上直播自己剃光头的过程。
这个想法最终不得不作罢，因为他们意识到，在一个偶尔有穿堂风、到处都是敞口饮料的球馆里，让细小的头发满天飞可能不是个好主意。但还是有两名“豺狼”球迷在当天早上剃了光头，并成功地在雄鹿队的转播中展示了出来。
对球队坚定不移的承诺
在维克托·文班亚马和凯尔登·约翰逊剃了光头之后，“豺狼”球迷们必须效仿
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— NBA (@ NBA) January 16, 2026
赛后走进更衣室，寻找马刺队下一位志愿者的行动已经初具雏形。
“这事儿没门。我不会剃的。我可不能剃，”朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 说。“老实说，我不知道我的头发还能不能长回来。”
队友们向卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 抛出了橄榄枝，出价两万美元让他剃光头。但他不会为了几周的现金而牺牲自己帅气的形象。毕竟，他连扣篮不进的样子都很好看。他拒绝了这个提议，说他更想要头发而不是钱。
于是他的队友们想出了一个更好的主意：把新秀整蛊变成一件有建设性的事。
“我们要看看能不能让卡特也剃了。我要逼他剃。再扣飞三个篮，他就得剃头，”尚帕尼说。
这时，福克斯从更衣室的另一头插话，说他们已经和哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 以及斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 握手成交了。
“再扣飞三个篮，他就得把那玩意儿剃掉，”福克斯说。
当被问及如果布莱恩特为了保住头发决定干脆不再尝试扣篮该怎么办时，福克斯又跳了出来。
“卡特脑子转得太快了，他根本想不到那层，”福克斯说。
“他跳得那么高，不该扣篮不进的，”尚帕尼说。“如果我有那种弹跳，我可不会扣飞。所以，我感觉他这样在场上扣飞篮筐是对我的一种冒犯。”
布莱恩特可能认为拥有一头秀发对他最有利。但他的老将们其实是在为他的职业生涯着想。他们是如此希望看到他成功，甚至愿意将他未来的 Abercrombie 模特生涯置于风险之中。
“我个人认为，如果我们剃了他的头，下一场比赛，他就能把那该死的球狠狠扣进篮筐，”尚帕尼说。
在马刺队等待布莱恩特的命运揭晓时，约翰逊的命运暂时已定。约翰逊这个决定的唯一缺点是，他一回来圣安东尼奥就降温了，夜间最低气温降至华氏30多度区间。他知道如何在球场上和健身房里运用自己的身体，但他的脑袋却一时难以适应如何调节体温。
“这是我头一次出汗，”约翰逊说。“我的头很冷。我一直想戴着毛线帽。”
在赛季的前三分之一，尽管最大牌的球星缺席了大量时间，马刺队依然展现出了令人印象深刻的稳定性。约翰逊持续的积极氛围，甚至他的歌声，都帮助他们在享受乐趣的同时保持专注。
最近日子变得艰难起来，他们正进入赛季中许多年轻球队都会“撞墙”的阶段。但约翰逊不会让这夺走他们的快乐。他喜欢大家一起做事。他甚至不愿一个人剃头，直到有队友加入。这位在马刺队效力时间最长的球员仍然是球队的关键部分，因为他工作中最大的乐趣就是成为团队的一员。
“我每天醒来，都享受来这里工作，和这个团队在一起，”约翰逊说。“学习、欢笑、开玩笑，一起经历顺境和逆境，我觉得这才是建立真正情谊的方式。我觉得我们这个团队真的太棒了。”
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Spurs turned clippers: Wemby, Keldon Johnson shave each other’s heads because … why not?
SAN ANTONIO — De’Aaron Fox didn’t even know why it happened. When he arrived at Spurs practice on Thursday, he saw the two faces of his team: Keldon Johnson and Victor Wembanyama. What he didn’t see was any hair on their heads.
After landing home from their 119-98 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, Johnson and Wembanyama did what anyone would do after a tough day at work: They shaved their heads bald.
“Bad things happen, I guess, when we lose to OKC,” Fox said. “We landed. They got in Vic’s car and started shaving their heads.”
Of course, Johnson had to share his side of the story. He’s never been shy of the mic, and he’s never missed an opportunity to join in on some fun. It turns out that Johnson was jealous that his best friends were bald and he just wanted to be like them.
“So I told all my teammates I was going to bald my head,” Johnson said. “We had a TV game, so I couldn’t bald my head.”
The OKC loss on NBC presented the perfect time for a fresh start. The Spurs were on top of the NBA world when they beat the Thunder three times in 12 days during December but have fallen back to earth over their last 10 games. They are 4-6 since beating the Thunder on Christmas and have ceded the second seed in the Western Conference back to the Denver Nuggets. After Wembanyama took a beating against the Thunder, it was time to switch something up.
“Then last night, Vic was like, ‘Yo, let’s bald our head.’ I was like, ‘S—, let’s do it,’” Johnson said. “I’ve been looking for a reason to do it.”
Keldon Johnson explains that he and Victor Wembanyama shaved each other’s heads:
“Last night, Vic was like, ‘Yo, let’s bald our head.’ And I was like, ‘Shit, let’s do it. ‘ I mean, I’ve been looking for a reason to do it.“ pic.twitter.com/UTAMN66l7F
— Jared Weiss (@ JaredWeissNBA) January 15, 2026
When they got off the plane, they obtained some clippers and got to work.
“Vic bald my hair, and I bald his hair. No ladder,” Johnson said. “But you know I got to work on my skills a bit, my clippers. I might be a barber when it’s all said and done.”
Barbers have different styles. Some make it an adventure along the way, and some just get the job done as quickly as they can. Some are quiet, and some won’t shut up. It won’t be hard to guess which camp Johnson falls into.
“It took me a little bit. I was trying to be cautious, ’cause he got hit. He had a knot on his head,” Johnson said. “So I was trying to make sure everything was smooth. I take my time. I had to fade it up a little bit at first, then I gave him a little bowl cut, then we just went from there.”
On the other end of the spectrum was Wembanyama, who knew he had to move quickly to take advantage of a moment of calm from his teammate. Johnson admitted he was jittery after the game — as he always is — but was chill when it was time to go bald.
“He did good. He was quick with it. No lie, Vic probably took three minutes,” Johnson said. “Boom, boom, boom, knock it all down. I was like, ’Wow!’”
While Johnson was inspired by his friends, Wembanyama actually went bald this summer when he was training with Shaolin monks in China.
“No one saw Vic (in person) when he did it during the summer. We just saw pictures. But this? I have nothing to say about this,” Fox said facetiously.
Count on Johnson to give his teammates what they need, even if it may not be what they want. He is an unavoidable presence in the locker room and on the court. The first to rip a shirt off his back for his teammates, although he’s usually not wearing a shirt anyway.
Unsurprisingly, Wembanyama’s and Johnson’s scalp reveal spread fast. When they stepped onto the floor for Thursday’s 119-101 win over the Milwaukee Bucks, they may have noticed a sea of pink wigs up in the Jackals section. The Jackals planned to do a mass shave-a-thon during the game, with some members planning to shave their actual heads on the video board.
The idea had to be scrapped once they realized a section full of open drinks in an arena with occasional cross breezes may not be the best place to have little hairs flying around. But a pair of Jackals did shave their heads that morning and managed to show it off on the Bucks broadcast.
Unwavering commitment to their team
After Victor Wembanyama and Keldon Johnson shaved their heads, the jackals had to follow suit
— NBA (@ NBA) January 16, 2026
Venturing into the locker room after the game, the search for the next Spurs volunteer was taking shape.
“It’s not happening. I’m not doing it. I can’t do it,” Julian Champagnie said. “I don’t know if my hair’s growing back, honestly.”
Teammates extended the carrot to Carter Bryant, offering the rookie $20,000 to bald himself. But he’s not compromising his sharp looks for a few weeks just for cash. He makes missing dunks look good, after all, and turned it down, saying he wanted the hair more than the money.
So his teammates came up with a better idea: to turn rookie hazing into something productive.
“We’re going to see if we can get Carter to do it. I’m gonna force him to do it. Three more dunks, and he’s shaving it,” Champagnie said.
Then Fox interjected from across the locker room that they already shook on it with Harrison Barnes and Stephon Castle.
“Three more missed dunks, and he’s cutting that s— off,” Fox said.
When asked for a contingency if Bryant decides to just stop trying to dunk to save his hair, Fox jumped back in.
“Carter’s brain is moving too fast for him to think about that,” Fox said.
“He jumps too high to be missing dunks,” Champagnie said. “If I had that kind of bounce, I wouldn’t miss dunks. So I feel offended that he’s out there missing dunks.”
Bryant may think having a good head of hair is in his best interests. But his vets are really just looking out for his career. They want to see him succeed so much that they’re willing to put his future Abercrombie modeling career at risk.
“I personally think if we shave his head, the next game, he will dunk the s— out of the ball,” Champagnie said.
While the Spurs await Bryant’s fate, Johnson’s is sealed, for now. The only downside to Johnson’s decision is that it got cold in San Antonio once he returned, with overnight lows in the 30s. He knows what to do with his body on the court and in the gym, but his head is having a hard time figuring out how to regulate his body temperature.
“This (is) the first time my head’s been sweating,” Johnson said. “My head’s cold. I’ve been trying to keep the skully on.”
The Spurs had some impressive consistency in the first third of the season, even without their biggest star missing significant time. Johnson’s persistently good vibes, and even his singing voice, helped them maintain focus while having fun.
Times are getting tougher lately as they reach the part of the season when many young teams hit the wall. But Johnson won’t let that take away their joy. He loves doing things together. He wouldn’t even shave his head until a teammate joined in. The player who has been with the Spurs the longest remains a key part of the team because his favorite part of his job is being part of the team.
“I wake up every day, and I enjoy coming to work and being here with this group,” Johnson said. “Learning, laughing, joking, going through the good times and the bad times, I feel like that’s what builds real bonds right there. I feel like this group has been amazing.”
By Jared Weiss, via The Athletic