By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-02-04 14:32:45
2025年12月2日（周二），在圣安东尼奥进行的NBA常规赛马刺对阵孟菲斯灰熊的下半场，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) (24) 对判罚表示抗议。圣安东尼奥以126-119击败孟菲斯。
对于全NBA的球迷来说，年度交易截止日是联盟赛程表中最令人兴奋的时刻之一。
球员加盟，球员离开。手机通知提醒被调到了最高级别。任何事情在任何时刻都可能发生。
出于同样的原因，从萨克拉门托到圣安东尼奥，乃至更远的地方，这一天在NBA更衣室里大多备受厌恶。
“这不仅对你，对你可能认识的球员、你熟悉的队友来说，都是一段充满压力的时光，”马刺后卫德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 说道。“老实说，我等不及想让这个交易截止日赶紧过去了。”
随着今年截止日定于周四下午2点临近，马刺全队还需多屏息等待一段时间。
就在去年那个周日的前一天，马刺完成了队史最大规模的一次赛季中期交易，当时他们从国王队手中抢到了全明星后卫德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox)。
那一记“神偷”或许降低了本赛季再次进行类似大动作的需求。
外界并不指望马刺会成为交易市场上（可能）剩下的最大牌球星——密尔沃基雄鹿的扬尼斯·阿德托昆博 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) 的主要竞争者，目前这位球星对雄鹿现状的各种不满程度仍未明朗。
同样，马刺曾对两位高大的侧翼射手表示过兴趣——新奥尔良鹈鹕的特雷·墨菲三世 (Trey Murphy III) 和布鲁克林篮网的小迈克尔·波特 (Michael Porter Jr.) ——但到目前为止，他们发现对方的要价过高。
在周三对阵俄克拉荷马城之前，马刺以出人意料的33胜16负战绩领跑，并且在以维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 为核心的重建项目中进度超前，因此马刺更有可能进行一些边际调整——如果他们真的打算出手的话。
另一位来自新奥尔良的高大侧翼射手萨迪克·贝 (Saddiq Bey) 可能是一个合适人选，且价格仅为墨菲的一小部分。
马刺还咨询过奥兰多魔术的中锋戈加·比塔泽 (Goga Bitadze) 和波特兰开拓者的大个子罗伯特·威廉姆斯三世 (Robert Williams III)，两人中的任何一位都能增强文班亚马和头号替补卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 之后的板凳深度。
与此同时，杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 在马刺现有球员可能离队名单中名列前茅。
随着周四的临近，这位22岁的防守专家在当晚对阵达拉斯的比赛跳球时是否仍留在马刺阵容中，仍存在严重的变数。
2026年1月22日（周四），圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 在犹他州盐湖城对阵犹他爵士队的NBA比赛前进行热身。(AP Photo/Rob Gray)
作为2022年的首轮9号秀，索汉在本赛季已经掉出了主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 的轮换阵容。索汉的经纪团队已获准寻求交易，而马刺在过去的四场比赛中将其列入伤病名单，官方称其为左股四头肌拉伤。
根据报告，纽约尼克斯和菲尼克斯太阳已对索汉表达了兴趣。如果截止日前无法达成交易，索汉可能会成为合同买断的候选人。
马刺拥有三名合同即将到期的球员，他们可能成为交易平账的关键筹码——哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes)（1900万美元）、凯利·奥利尼克 (Kelly Olynyk)（1340万美元）以及索汉（710万美元）。他们还囤积了23个未来选秀权可以作为交易筹码。
约翰逊承认交易截止日在任何NBA更衣室都会引发压力飙升，但他希望球员们能设法保持平稳心态，直到截止日过去。
“我希望他们始终能感受到我们的坦率和诚实，”约翰逊说道。“周围总是有很多流言蜚语和各种说法。我们只是努力控制我们能控制的事情——努力赢球，然后明天起床继续投入工作。自10月以来我们一直是这么做的。”
马刺已经连续五年在2月进行过某种形式的交易。
球员们深知一切皆有可能。
去年，达拉斯独行侠将卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Doncic) 交易至洛杉矶湖人以换取安东尼·戴维斯 (Anthony Davis)，结果本周三又将戴维斯交易至奇才，因为独行侠试图再次重组，而这一次是围绕库珀·弗拉格 (Cooper Flagg) 展开。
“在我的八年职业生涯中，我见过至少五六次这样的交易，”福克斯说道。“我不敢说这就是我所预期的，但交易市场上确实会发生很多事情。”
在本周那个预想中会比较平静的截止日到来前的几天里，戴维斯已经再次转会——而洛杉矶快船在周二晚些时候与克利夫兰骑士交换了全明星控卫，詹姆斯·哈登 (James Harden) 前往东部，达柳斯·加兰 (Darius Garland) 则迁往西部。
在另一笔小型重磅交易中，孟菲斯将全明星中锋小贾伦·杰克逊 (Jaren Jackson Jr.) 送往了犹他。
每年的这个时候，每一条新的推送通知都会在更衣室里引起一阵小规模的震动，哪怕这与报道中的交易并无关联。
“我们都有社交媒体，”马刺前锋朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 说道。“你会听到一些传闻，看到一些消息。我认为我们在不去想它、不多谈论它方面做得很好。我们只是享受彼此相处的时光。”
马刺近期在截止日的许多举动都是文班亚马时代到来前清理阵容的一部分，比如2022年将德里克·怀特 (Derrick White) 送往波士顿，或者一年后将雅各布·珀尔特尔 (Jakob Poeltl) 交易至多伦多。
去年，马刺走向了不同的方向，兑现筹码以换取一名与文班亚马搭档的重要拼图。
马刺在一次三方交易中从萨克拉门托抢到了福克斯，付出的代价相对较低：三个首轮签、三个次轮签、特雷·琼斯 (Tre Jones)、扎克·科林斯 (Zach Collins) 和西迪·西索科 (Sidy Cissoko)。
2月3日晚消息传出时，国王队刚在明尼苏达打完比赛。
“事情发生时，我还在明尼苏达的房间里休息，”福克斯说道。“然后第二天早上，我就已经在圣安东尼奥了。”
随着交易截止日的临近，谁也说不准哪名或哪些球员会收到自己现在住在别处的通知。
对于身处NBA赛季征途中的球员来说，交易截止日的不确定性是最难熬的部分。
“你看一眼手机，又看到了新消息，你永远不知道接下来会发生什么，”瓦塞尔说道。
当被问及是否希望没收球员的设备直到周四下午2点01分时，约翰逊停顿了一下，微笑着回答。
“是的，”约翰逊说道。“我孩子们的手机也想没收。”
San Antonio Spurs guard Devin Vassell (24) prepares to shoot a free-throw in the second half of an NBA Cup semifinals basketball game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)
Devin Vassell #24 of the San Antonio Spurs reacts after hitting a 3-pointer against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the third quarter of a semifinal game of the Emirates NBA Cup at T-Mobile Arena on December 13, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Spurs defeated the Thunder 111-109.
San Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan (10) warms up with his teammates before taking on the Milwaukee Bucks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.
Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, center, drives to the basket between San Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan, left, and guard Devin Vassell, right, in the first half of an NBA Cup basketball game Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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For Spurs players, stress levels spike as NBA trade deadline looms
San Antonio Spurs guard Devin Vassell (24) protests a call during the second half of an NBA game with the Memphis Grizzlies in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. San Antonio beat Memphis 126-119.
For fans across the NBA, the annual trade deadline can be one of the more exciting times on the league calendar.
Players going in. Players going out. Phone notifications turned up to 11. Anything possible at any moment.
For many of the same reasons, it is a day mostly reviled in NBA locker rooms from Sacramento to San Antonio and beyond.
“It’s a stressful time not only for you, but players that you might know, teammates that you might know,” Spurs guard Devin Vassell said. “I can’t wait for this trade deadline to be over, honestly.”
With this year’s deadline looming at 2 p.m. Thursday, the Spurs have a little while longer to hold their breaths.
A year ago last Sunday, the Spurs made the biggest midseason trade in franchise history, when they nabbed All-Star guard De’Aaron Fox away from the Kings.
That heist perhaps lessens the need for a similarly big swing this season.
The Spurs are not expected to be major players for the biggest name still (possibly) on the market — Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, who remains an undetermined level of disgruntled with the goings on around the Bucks.
Likewise, the Spurs have registered interest in a pair of big wing shooters — New Orleans’ Trey Murphy III and Brooklyn’s Michael Porter Jr. — but so far have found the price tag to be too high.
At a surprising 33-16 heading into Wednesday’s clash with Oklahoma City and ahead of schedule in their Victor Wembanyama-centric rebuilding project, the Spurs are more likely to make a move around the margins. That is, if they make one at all.
Another big wing shooter from New Orleans, Saddiq Bey, could be a fit at a fraction of Murphy’s cost.
The Spurs have inquired about Orlando center Goga Bitadze and Portland big man Robert Williams III, either of whom could shore up depth behind Wembanyama and top backup Luke Kornet.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Sochan sits atop the list of current Spurs possibly headed elsewhere.
Heading into Thursday, there remains serious uncertainty about whether the 22-year-old defensive specialist will still be on the Spurs’ roster come tipoff of that night’s game at Dallas.
San Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rob Gray)
The ninth overall pick in 2022, Sochan has fallen out of coach Mitch Johnson’s rotation this season. Sochan’s representatives have been given permission to seek a trade, while the Spurs have placed him on the inactive list for the past four games with what the team is calling a left quad strain.
According to reports, the New York Knicks and Phoenix Suns have expressed interest in Sochan. If no deal can be reached by the deadline, Sochan is a candidate to have his contract bought out.
The Spurs have three players on expiring contracts who could be prime chips for making trade math equations work — Harrison Barnes ($19 million), Kelly Olynyk ($13.4 million) and Sochan ($7.1 million). They also have a stash of 23 future draft picks to use as sweetener.
Acknowledging the stress spike the trade deadline causes in any NBA locker room, Johnson says he hopes players can find a way to stay even keeled until it passes.
“I hope that they always we feel that we’re up front and honest with them,” Johnson said. “There’s a lot of chatter and narratives going on all the time. We just try to control the things we can control — try to win the game, and then tomorrow we’ve got to get up and go to work again. That’s been the approach since October.”
The Spurs have made a February trade of some sort five years in a row.
Players know anything is possible.
Last year, the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis only to turn around and trade Davis to the Wizards on Wednesday as the Mavs try to retool once again, this time around Cooper Flagg.
“In my eight years, I’ve seen trades at least five or six of them,” Fox said. “I don’t know if I would say that’s what I’m expecting, but a lot of things happen at the trade market.”
In the days leading to what was expected to be a quiet deadline this week, Davis is already relocating — again — and the Los Angeles Clippers swapped All-Star point guards with Cleveland late Tuesday night, with James Harden headed east and Darius Garland relocating west.
In another mini-blockbuster, Memphis sent All-Star center Jaren Jackson Jr. to Utah.
This time of year, each new push notification sends at least a small shock wave through locker rooms not even connected to the reported trade.
“We all have social media,” Spurs forward Julian Champagnie said. “You hear things, you see things. I think we do a pretty good job of not thinking about it, not talking too much about it. And just kind of enjoying the time we have with each other.”
Many of the Spurs’ recent deadline moves were part of the pre-Wembanyama roster tear down, such as the 2022 trade of Derrick White to Boston or Jakob Poeltl’s trade to Toronto a year later.
Last year, the Spurs went in a different direction, cashing in chips to obtain a significant piece to pair with Wembanyama.
The Spurs nabbed Fox from Sacramento in a three-team deal that cost them the relatively low fee of three first-round picks, three second-round picks, Tre Jones, Zach Collins and Sidy Cissoko.
The Kings had just played in Minnesota earlier the night of Feb. 3 when news broke.
“I was still just chilling in my room in Minnesota when everything happened,” Fox said. “Then the next morning I was in San Antonio.”
As the trade deadline looms, there is no telling what player or players will get word that they live somewhere else now.
For players in the throes of an NBA season, uncertainty at the trade deadline is the hardest part.
“You look at your phone and you see something else, and you just never know what’s going to happen next,” Vassell said.
Asked if he wished he could confiscate his players’ devices until 2:01 p.m. Thursday, Johnson paused and smiled before answering.
“Yes,” Johnson said. “My kids’, too.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News