By Jared Weiss | The Athletic, 2026-01-28 14:11:49
朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 小心翼翼地左顾右盼，确认四下无人。他可不能因为非法闯入而被抓个现行。他从未与警察打过交道，也不想从现在开始。
但那扇门后，有他亟需的东西。他对此心心念念，无法自拔。那是在2020年春天，他已经厌倦了因新冠疫情而被封锁在家的日子。而解决他问题的答案近在咫尺，他仿佛都能闻到它的气息。
尚帕尼有一张进入这栋建筑的钥匙卡，但门禁系统拒绝了他。他下定决心，要找到让这张卡生效的方法。
“我会用卡片撬动门锁，让锁芯发出轻微的咔哒声，然后把卡片留在门缝里，”尚帕尼在接受 The Athletic 采访时，带着一丝怀旧的喜悦回忆道。
当他最终撬开门时，尚帕尼走了进去，打开灯，目标就在眼前。他想要的很简单：时间。成长的时间，磨练的时间，铸就未来的时间。
尚帕尼正站在圣约翰大学的训练馆球场上，作为篮球队的一名大一新生，他深吸了一口那涂着漆的硬木地板散发出的清新而无菌的气味。
他来这里不是为了偷窃，只是为了练投篮。
在他人生的那个阶段，这几乎是他唯一想要做的事情。这也是他有生以来，第一次真正思考自己到底想要什么。
“他的骨子里就是个布鲁克林人，”他的双胞胎哥哥贾斯汀 (Justin) 说。“他绝对会想方设法溜进那个体育馆的。”
这是朱利安·尚帕尼第一次与贾斯汀分开，后者当时正在匹兹堡大学打球。这对他们俩来说都是全新的体验。无论遇到什么，他们总是有彼此相伴。自从贾斯汀比他早七分钟来到这个世界，朱利安就一直跟随着自己双胞胎哥哥的脚步。
“他去哪儿，我就去哪儿，”尚帕尼说。“他总是那个有主意的人，而我只是跟着而已。”
如今，尚帕尼已是圣安东尼奥马刺队的骨干球员，在NBA最顶尖的球队之一中，担任维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 身边的3D搭档。但在当时，尚帕尼仍在努力寻找自己作为运动员和作为个体的身份认同。
这种撬锁的淘气行为，是尚帕尼双胞胎兄弟的典型做派。当他们还在高中时，贾斯汀会偷开妈妈的车，载着他们从布鲁克林一路开到皇后区的罗伊·威尔金斯公园，与他们的AAU教练兼名誉叔叔罗德尼·弗雷泽 (Rodney Frazier) 和一群球员会合，进行跑步和力量训练。妈妈每次都会生气，但他们必须找到办法。
“我总是那个咋咋呼呼的，而他是团队里的沉默杀手，”贾斯汀说。“就是那种你不太会注意到他的存在，直到突然发现，‘喔，他已经砍下25分了’。”
虽然贾斯汀在高中时是更耀眼的明星，但朱利安在高四赛季开始崭露头角，哥哥的成功让他意识到自己也能获得一份奖学金。这个想法奏效了，贾斯汀被匹兹堡大学招募，朱利安最初也承诺与他一同前往。但总感觉有些不对劲。
贾斯汀爱上了那所大学的一切，并清楚自己想立刻承诺加盟。朱利安说他会一起去，但贾斯汀能感觉到他并非真心想去那里。
“当他告诉我（他要去圣约翰大学）时，我一点也没生气，”贾斯汀说。“当然会伤心，因为那将是我们第一次分开。想到他要在没有我的情况下打球，这并不让我难过，但仅仅是第一次没有他在身边的想法，在某种意义上，是足以改变人生的。”
适应期很艰难，但他们每天会进行三次FaceTime视频通话。贾斯汀会在更衣室里观看弟弟的比赛，朱利安也同样如此。随着他们之间“贾斯汀主导、朱利安跟随”的动态关系发生转变，他们成为了彼此在远方的啦啦队长和批评家。
“我们都得做自己该做的事，”贾斯汀说。“但有时就会想，‘该死，我真想他。’那可是我的兄弟。”
贾斯汀曾希望匹兹堡大学能和圣约翰大学打一场，“这样我就可以好好教训他一顿”，但他们从未得到这个机会。朱利安在圣约翰大学的大一赛季表现稳健，但他知道自己有能力做得更多。他只需要找到空间和时间，以自己希望的方式去提升。而疫情以一种他从未想象过的方式提供了这个机会。
“我不喜欢大声说出来，因为很多人在新冠期间经历了太多苦难，但新冠疫情可以说是我人生中最美好的时光，”尚帕尼说。“我认为那段长达六七个月、无所事事的日子对我来说是最好的事情。我得以重新评估自己，真正地审视内心，问自己：‘我想要成为谁？’”
当尚帕尼在大二赛季前与圣约翰大学的助理教练范·梅肯 (Van Macon) 会面时，梅肯鼓励他将场均得分从不到10分提升到16分。
“我告诉他，‘我的目标是场均20分，不知道你在说什么，’”尚帕尼说。“在我告诉他之后，我的教练们，他们所有人都像是接到了一个任务。”
这意味着要经历三次训练、多次力量训练，以及任何能教会他在增强身体力量的同时还能稳定命中跳投的方法。但当尚帕尼在赛季初扭伤脚踝，不得不缺席三周时，他气坏了。他不想让任何人在他缺阵时感到自在。
圣约翰大学的教练组告诉他放慢脚步，让脚踝痊愈，但他们即将参加一个季前锦标赛，他断然拒绝了。于是，他把脚踝裹得紧紧的，几乎动弹不得，外面再套上一个护具来固定，然后替补出场，在对阵波士顿学院的比赛中砍下29分。
“我记得回来后，我的脚踝还是紫色的，”尚帕尼说。“我当时想，‘哇，我得为自己感到骄傲，因为两年前的我可做不到这样。’我付出了非常认真的努力，从那以后，我就顺势而为了。”
朱利安·尚帕尼表示，新冠疫情期间的封锁迫使他专注于变得更好。(Wendell Cruz / Imagn Images)
在经历了三年的大学生涯后，尚帕尼在2022年选秀中落选，并与费城76人队签下了一份双向合同。与此同时，贾斯汀也正以一份双向合同在多伦多猛龙队开启他的第二个赛季。朱利安在G联赛的特拉华蓝衫军队开局良好，14场比赛场均得到21.9分。但在经历了火热的开局后，到12月中旬，他开始感觉有些不对劲。
在一场于苏福尔斯的胜利后——那场比赛他得到了23分——他给自己的经纪人尼克·布拉奇福德 (Nick Blatchford) 打了电话，说感觉不太对。第二天，也就是情人节的早上6点，尚帕尼被响个不停的电话吵醒。他没理会，继续睡了过去。几小时后，当他起床走进淋浴间时，他的手机又响了，屏幕上显示着布拉奇福德的名字。
尚帕尼终于接了电话。他的预感是对的。他失业了。76人队裁掉了他，转而将他的双向合同名额给了最终的扣篮王麦克·麦克朗 (Mac McClung)。
“我真的把手机扔进了水槽，心想‘我根本不在乎。让我洗完澡再说，我现在处理不了这个’，”尚帕尼说。
在尚帕尼如今的未婚妻卡西迪·贝莱斯 (Cassidy Velez) 努力让他振作起来后，他们继续了情人节的计划，最终在他们当时居住的特拉华州威尔明顿外出共进晚餐。但事情从那里开始急转直下。
他说，他们在那家高端牛排连锁店的晚餐是“我这辈子吃过的最糟糕的一顿饭”。当那份生牛排端上桌时，他意识到自己在特拉华的日子结束了。几小时后，他们把几个手提箱扔进车里，开车回到了她位于纽约的父母家。在动荡的一天之后，总算有了一丝安稳。
“我无法应对这种对未来一无所知的感觉。人生中无法掌控事情的感觉太难受了，伙计，”尚帕尼说。“我的经纪人说，‘你会得到一个机会的。我们不知道会是哪里，但它会来的。’但我毫无头绪，我只是感到害怕。”
当尚帕尼回到纽约的家时，他见到了几个月前被猛龙队裁掉的哥哥。贾斯汀一直听说马刺队有兴趣签下他。2月16日，当他们坐进车里时，他们心想，这对双胞胎中至少有一个人那周可能会得到一些好消息。NBA边缘球员们如同抢椅子游戏般的残酷竞争，机会之门关闭得有多快，打开得就有多快。
然后贾斯汀的电话响了。他的经纪人开始说话，贾斯汀一边听一边点头，然后兴奋地抓住了朱利安的后脑勺。朱利安问他到底在干什么。
“别管了，”贾斯汀说。“尼克两秒钟后就会打给你。”
还没等朱利安反应过来发生了什么，布拉奇福德的名字又出现在他的手机屏幕上。这次他确保在第一声响铃时就接听了。结果是，要去圣安东尼奥的人是朱利安。
这是一个奇怪的处境。两个一直相互扶持的双胞胎兄弟，为了联盟中的同一根救命稻草而竞争。
“这是一个你争我夺、弱肉强食的世界，但贾斯汀，他是我能拥有的最好的兄弟，”朱利安说。“他本可以轻易地为此生气，但他没有丝毫怨恨。他说，‘绝对不会。你去变得伟大……别担心我。我会自己搞定我那摊子事。我一直都是，将来也一直会。’”
尚帕尼问布拉奇福德，在76人队到底出了什么问题。他无法理解。他在特拉华的表现很好，但显然，仅仅好是不够的。布拉奇福德告诉他，原因并不重要，他只需要接受事实并向前看。“但我花了很长很长时间才接受这个事实，”尚帕尼说。
于是他去了圣安东尼奥，告诉自己，他要用赛季剩下的18场比赛来证明费城是错的。
“在那全部18场比赛里，我脑海中一直萦绕着这个念头。请原谅我的用词，但去他妈的费城。就像，去他妈的！我到底做错了什么？”尚帕尼笑着说。“那个想法真的一路支撑着我，就是去他妈的。‘你是一名NBA球员，如果有人告诉你你不是，那他们简直是在胡说八道。’”
当他抵达时，如今马刺队中效力时间最长的球员凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 向他做了自我介绍，并问尚帕尼：“你是做什么的？”尚帕尼回答说他擅长投篮。
“他说，‘好吧，那就只管投，这样我明年还能见到你，’”尚帕尼回忆道。“我心想，‘靠，没问题。’”
当朱利安·尚帕尼初到圣安东尼奥时，凯尔登·约翰逊是他的早期支持者之一。(Scott Wachter / Imagn Images)
在接下来的八场比赛里，约翰逊不断鼓励尚帕尼出手，尚帕尼也照做了。尚帕尼一直觉得他属于这个联盟，但却不敢真正对自己说出这句话。约翰逊帮助他突破了那道心理障碍。但最终是时任主教练格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 帮助尚帕尼明白了这次他该如何站稳脚跟。
在加入马刺几周后，尚帕尼赢得了一个轮换位置，但尚未发挥出最佳水平。3月31日输给金州勇士队后，波波维奇找到尚帕尼，告诉他虽然他的投篮足以让他上场，但这还不够。
“（他说），你必须打得更努力。你必须带着韧性去打球。你必须打得凶悍才能留在这里，”尚帕尼说。“你必须努力、努力、再努力，放下你的自负。我其实没什么自负心，所以这对我来说不太难。困难的部分是训练自己变得凶悍，打得更努力，并在防守端拼尽全力。这些才是你在这里打球必须要做到的事情。”
在来到圣安东尼奥之前，尚帕尼在NBA还未得过一分。将自己的意志强加于比赛之上的想法，与他当时的生存本能背道而驰。但波波维奇想要更多，所以尚帕尼就会给他更多。然后，球队驱车穿过纳帕谷前往萨克拉门托，尚帕尼在那场比赛中砍下26分，并从此起飞。
随着时间的推移，尚帕尼找到了自己的“凶悍”，他与马刺队的契合度也开始变得清晰。随着维克托·文班亚马作为建队基石的到来，马刺需要能够在无球状态下茁壮成长、并在接到球时能快速决策的出色射手和防守者。这使得尚帕尼成为了球队在有人缺阵时的主要顶替首发。本赛季，他在46场比赛中首发了32场，场均得到11.7分和6.2个篮板，均为生涯新高。马刺可以在今年夏天与他签下一份续约合同，否则他将在2026-27赛季后成为一名自由球员。
与此同时，贾斯汀·尚帕尼在2024年与华盛顿奇才队签约，并开创了与他双胞胎兄弟类似的角色。自12月初以来，贾斯汀在26场比赛中场均得到10.0分和7.3个篮板，其中7次首发。
在多年远隔重洋的相互支持后，他们终于在2025年2月10日的比赛中，获得了长时间对位的机会。很自然地，贾斯汀必须直接向他的兄弟发起挑战。贾斯汀在17分钟内得到14分，而朱利安在16分钟内得到6分，马刺队赢得了比赛。
“我不骗你，那真的太有趣了。我简直打爆了他，”贾斯汀说。“我太兴奋了。不过，真的太好玩了。这是我们儿时的梦想。”
不久之前，NBA边缘球员的残酷竞争曾让兄弟俩在短暂却至关重要的时刻相互对立。如今，他们都已在联盟中站稳了脚跟，可以再次享受这场战斗了。
“一切都以它本该有的方式发展，”贾斯汀说。“现在他是如今马刺队不可或缺的一部分。所以我不会希望它以任何其他方式呈现。”
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How Julian Champagnie went from following his twin brother to finding his own career
Looking back and forth to make sure the coast was clear, Julian Champagnie had to be careful. He couldn’t get caught breaking and entering. He’d never been in trouble with the police before, and he wasn’t about to start now.
But there was something inside those doors he needed. He was obsessing over it. It was in the spring of 2020, and he was tired of being on lockdown from COVID-19. The answer to his problem was so close, he could smell it.
Champagnie had a keycard for the building but was denied access. He was determined to find a way to make that card work.
“I would shimmy the lock with the card, click the lock a little bit, then leave the card in between the door,” Champagnie told The Athletic with a nostalgic glee.
When he finally popped the door open, Champagnie walked in, flipped the lights on and there it was. What he wanted was simple: time. Time to grow. Time to sharpen. Time to forge his future.
Champagnie was standing on the St. John’s University practice court, where he was one of the freshmen on the basketball team, taking in the fresh, sterile smell of that lacquered hardwood.
He wasn’t there to commit larceny. He was just there to get shots up.
It was just about the only thing he wanted at that point of his life. This was one of the first times in his life that he ever wondered what he actually wanted.
“He’s Brooklyn in his blood,” his twin brother Justin said. “He was definitely finding a way into that gym.”
Julian Champagnie was apart from Justin for the first time, who was playing for the University of Pittsburgh. This was novel for both of them. Whatever came their way, they always had each other. Julian had been following his twin ever since Justin came out of the womb seven minutes ahead of him.
“Everywhere he went, I went,” Champagnie said. “He was always the man with the plan. I was just there.”
Nowadays, Champagnie is a mainstay for the San Antonio Spurs, the 3-and-D sidekick to Victor Wembanyama on one of the best teams in the NBA. Back then, Champagnie was still trying to find his identity as an athlete and person.
The mischievous lock-picking was textbook Champagnie twin behavior. When they were in high school, Justin would steal their mom’s car to drive them from Brooklyn to Roy Wilkins Park in Queens to meet with their AAU coach/honorary uncle Rodney Frazier and a group of players to run and lift weights. Mom would get angry every time, but they had to find a way.
“I was always the one making the noise, and he was the silent killer of the group,” Justin said. “Whereas you don’t really notice he’s there until OK, wow, he has 25 on the board right now.”
While Justin was the bigger star in high school, Julian started to come into his own his senior season, as his brother’s success helped him realize he could get a scholarship as well. It worked, as Justin was recruited to Pitt and Julian initially committed alongside him. But something didn’t feel quite right.
Justin fell in love with everything about the school and knew he wanted to commit right away. Julian said he would go there with him, but Justin could sense he didn’t really want to be there.
“When he told me (he was going to St. John’s), I wasn’t mad at all,” Justin said. “Hurt, of course, because it was going to be the first time we were apart. It didn’t hurt thinking he was going to play without me, but just the thought of being without him for the first time was, in a sense, life-changing.”
The adaptation was tough, but they FaceTimed three times a day. Justin put his brother’s games on in the locker room. Julian did the same. As the dynamic shifted from Justin taking the lead and Julian following along, they became each other’s cheerleaders and critics from afar.
“We both got to do what we got to do,” Justin said. “But then it’s like, ‘Damn, I just miss him.’ That’s my boy.”
Justin was hoping Pitt and St. John’s would play “so I could kill him,” but they never got the chance. Julian had a solid freshman season at St. John’s but knew he was capable of more. He just had to find the space and time to build the way he wished. The pandemic provided that opportunity in a way he had never imagined.
“I don’t like saying it out loud because a lot of people went through a lot during COVID, but COVID was generally the best time in my life,” Champagnie said. “I think a six- or seven-month span of nothing was the best thing for me. I got to just reevaluate, really look in the mirror and ask myself, ‘Who do I want to be?’”
When Champagnie met with St. John’s assistant coach Van Macon ahead of his sophomore season, Macon encouraged him to up his scoring average from just under 10 points to 16.
“I told him, ‘I’m trying to average 20. I don’t know what you’re talking about,’” Champagnie said. “After I told him that, my coaches, they all (were) set on a mission.”
That meant going through three workouts, multiple lifting sessions, anything to teach him how to nail a jump shot while still building up his body for power. But when Champangie sprained his ankle at the beginning of the season and had to miss three weeks, he was pissed. He didn’t want anyone getting comfortable without him on the floor.
The St. John’s staff told him to slow his roll and let his ankle heal, but they had a preseason tournament coming up and he simply refused. So he wrapped his ankle so tightly he could barely move it, put a brace on over it to lock it in, then dropped 29 points at Boston College off the bench.
“I remember getting back, and my ankle was still purple,” Champagnie said. “I was like, ‘Wow, I’ve got to be proud of myself for this, because this was not me two years ago.’ I put some serious work in, and then from there, I kind of just rode the wave.”
Julian Champagnie said being on lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to lock in on getting better. (Wendell Cruz / Imagn Images)
After a three-year college career, Champagnie went undrafted in 2022 and landed a two-way contract with the Philadelphia 76ers. Meanwhile, Justin was entering his second season with the Toronto Raptors on a two-way deal. Julian was off to a good start in the G League with the Delaware Blue Coats, averaging 21.9 points over 14 games. But after a hot start, he started to sense something was off by mid-December.
He called his agent, Nick Blatchford, after a win in Sioux Falls, in which he scored 23 points, and said things didn’t feel right. The next morning, on Valentine’s Day, Champagnie woke up to his phone ringing off the hook at 6 a.m. He ignored it and went back to sleep. A few hours later, he was up and finally in the shower when his phone started ringing again with Blatchford’s name across the screen.
Champagnie finally picked up. He was right. He was out of a job. The 76ers cut him, signing eventual dunk champion Mac McClung to his two-way slot.
“I literally threw my phone in the sink and was like, ‘I don’t even care. Let me finish the shower, I can’t deal with this right now,’” Champagnie said.
After Champagnie’s now-fiancé Cassidy Velez tried to cheer him up, they carried on with their Valentine’s Day plans and eventually went out to dinner in Wilmington, Delaware, where they were living at the time. But things only spiraled from there.
He said their meal at a high-end steakhouse chain was “the worst dinner of my life.” When the raw steak hit the table, he realized his time in Delaware was done. A few hours later, they threw a couple of suitcases in the car and drove back to her parents’ house in New York. In a day of upheaval, finally, a sense of stability.
“I don’t do well with just not knowing what’s about to happen. It’s so hard not controlling things in life, man,” Champagnie said. “My agent was like, ‘You will get an opportunity. We don’t know where it’ll be, but it’ll happen.’ But I had no clue. I was just scared.”
When Champagnie returned home to New York, he met up with his brother, who had been waived by the Raptors several months earlier. Justin had been hearing the Spurs were interested in bringing him in. As they got in the car on Feb. 16, they thought at least one of the twins may get some good news that week. The cycle of life on the NBA’s margins opens doors as swiftly as it closes them.
Then Justin’s phone rang. His agent started talking while Justin nodded, then he started grabbing the back of Julian’s head in excitement. Julian asked him what the hell he was doing.
“Don’t worry about it,” Justin said. “Nick’s going to call you in two seconds.”
Before Julian could process what was going on, there was Blatchford’s name across his screen again. He made sure to answer on the first ring this time. Turns out, Julian was the one going to San Antonio.
It was a strange position to be in. Two twins who always had each other’s backs, competing for the same lifeline to the league.
“It’s a dog-eat-dog world competing for something like that, but Justin, he’s the best brother I could have asked for,” Julian said. “He could have easily been mad about that, but he had no grudge. He said, ‘Absolutely not. You go be great. … Don’t worry about me. I’ll figure my own s— out. I always have. I always will.’”
Champagnie asked Blatchford what went wrong with the 76ers. He couldn’t understand. His production with Delaware was good but clearly good wasn’t enough. Blatchford told him it didn’t matter why, he just had to accept it happened and move on. “But it took me a long-a— time to accept that,” Champagnie said.
So he went to San Antonio, telling himself that he had the last 18 games of the season to prove Philly was wrong.
“Through all 18 games, that was the thing in the back of my head. Excuse my language, but f— Philly. Like, f — them! What the hell did I do wrong?” Champagnie said with a laugh. “That was the thought that genuinely pulled me through, just f— them. ‘You’re an NBA player, and if anybody tells you you’re not, they’re smoking.’”
When he arrived, Keldon Johnson, now the longest-tenured player on the Spurs, introduced himself and asked Champagnie, “What do you do?” Champagnie responded that he shoots the basketball.
“He was like, ‘Well, just do that so I can see you next year,’” Champagnie said. “I’m like, ’S—, no problem.’”
Keldon Johnson was an early advocate for Julian Champagnie when the latter arrived in San Antonio. (Scott Wachter / Imagn Images)
Over those next eight games, Johnson kept imploring Champagnie to shoot, and Champagnie complied. Champagnie always felt like he belonged in the league but was afraid to truly say it to himself. Johnson helped him break through that barrier. But it was then-coach Gregg Popovich who helped Champagnie understand how he could stick around this time.
Champagnie earned a rotation spot after a few weeks with the Spurs but wasn’t playing his best yet. After a loss at Golden State on March 31, Popovich went to Champagnie and told him that while his shot was good enough to get him on the floor, there needed to be more.
“(He said), you gotta play harder. You gotta play with tenacity. You gotta play nasty to stay here,” Champagnie said. “You gotta work, work, work, let go of the ego. I don’t really have an ego, so that wasn’t too hard for me. The hard part was training myself to be nasty, play harder, and give a f— on defense. Those are the things you’ve got to really do to play here.”
Before Champagnie arrived in San Antonio, he hadn’t scored a point in the NBA. The idea of imposing his will on the game was antithetical to his survival instincts. But Popovich wanted more, so Champagnie would give him more. Then, the team drove through Napa Valley up to Sacramento, Champagnie dropped 26 points and took off from there.
As time went on and Champagnie found his nastiness, his fit with the Spurs began to crystallize. With Victor Wembanyama arriving as the franchise cornerstone, the Spurs needed strong shooters and defenders who could thrive without the ball and make quick decisions when it came their way. That turned Champagnie into the team’s primary fill-in starter whenever someone goes down. This season, he’s started 32 of 46 games while averaging career-highs of 11.7 points and 6.2 rebounds a night. The Spurs can sign him to a contract extension this summer, or he’ll become a free agent after the 2026-27 season.
Meanwhile, Justin Champagnie signed with the Washington Wizards in 2024 and has carved out a similar role to his twin brother. Since the start of December, Justin is averaging 10.0 points and 7.3 rebounds in 26 games, starting seven times.
After years of supporting each other from afar, they finally got to play against each other for extended minutes on Feb. 10, 2025. Naturally, Justin had to go right at his brother. Justin finished with 14 points in 17 minutes, while Julian had six points in 16 minutes as the Spurs won.
“I ain’t going to lie, it was mad fun. I was killing him,” Justin said. “I was so hyped. It was so much fun, though. This was a childhood dream.”
It wasn’t too long ago that the musical chairs of the NBA’s fringes pitted them against each other for a brief, yet consequential moment. Now that they both have cemented their place in the league, they get to enjoy the fight once again.
“It worked out the way it was supposed to work out,” Justin said. “Now he’s an intricate part of who (the Spurs) are today. So I wouldn’t have wanted it to shape out any other way.”
By Jared Weiss, via The Athletic