By Mike Finger | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-02-11 16:11:02
2026 年 1 月 15 日，星期四，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋 杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) (10) 在圣安东尼奥 Frost Bank 中心对阵密尔沃基雄鹿队前进行热身。索汉已经跌出了马刺队的轮换阵容，且在截止日前的交易尝试也未能成功。在周二马刺大胜湖人的比赛中，他是两队唯一未出战的球员，他在球队的未来充满不确定性。
洛杉矶——随着截止日的临近， 杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 并不确定自己将前往何方。但他心中已经有了几个心仪的目的地。
他觉得去墨西哥度过全明星周末可能不错。
奥斯汀也在考虑范围之内。
“这将是一个最后一刻的决定，”索汉在周二晚上说道。
现在，他面临着另一个抉择。在经历了超过一个月人尽皆知的 NBA 交易流言、随时准备好拎包走人之后，这位四年级前锋一度被寄予厚望的马刺生涯终于在周三下午画上了句号。
索汉与马刺队达成了解约协议，他将成为一名自由球员。这场闹剧就此终结，即便索汉承认“不可能不去考虑”他在球队那脆弱的未来，马刺在截止日前仍未能为他找到交易伙伴。
“我不打算撒谎，”在 Crypto.com 球馆的更衣室里，他在作为马刺球员的最后一晚说道，“这确实压力很大。”
即使在马刺 136-108 大胜湖人的比赛中，这种决裂的迹象也显而易见。
在这场马刺一度领先多达 41 分的比赛中，两队共有 27 名球员登场。唯一一名进入名单却一分钟未打的球员就是索汉。
赛后，当被问及为何在这场连出场机会寥寥的第三中锋 比斯马克·比永博 (Bismack Biyombo) 都打了 10 分钟的虐菜局中却枯坐板凳时，索汉礼貌地给出了“无可奉告”的回答。
他不需要说得太明白。就像马刺过去处理 拉马库斯·阿尔德里奇 (LaMarcus Aldridge) 和 保罗·加索尔 (Pau Gasol) 等老将的方式一样，一旦明确索汉不在长期计划内，他们就开始着手为其寻找新去处。
交易没谈成，但这迟早会发生。值得赞扬的是，索汉从未对这种处境抱怨过。
“我知道杰里米渴望得到更多上场时间，就像很多打不上球的球员一样，我很欣慰他有这种想法，”马刺主教练 米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在周二表示，“这就是在联盟中取得成功所必须具备的竞争心态。”
归根结底，虽然索汉未来在 NBA 可能取得成功，但圣安东尼奥并不是最适合他的地方。
当马刺在 2022 年选秀大会以首轮第 9 顺位选中这位来自贝勒大学的球员时，他们看中了他的顶级防守能力、狠劲，以及在赢球球队中成为类似 德雷蒙德·格林 (Draymond Green) 式“连接者”的潜力。
控球后卫的试验失败了。打小球中锋展现了一些潜力，但适配度也并不理想。一旦马刺在后场配备了充满动力的进攻发起者（他们擅长攻筐或突破分球），马刺对大前锋位置（索汉的自然位置）的需求就变得很明确，而这种技能包正是索汉所欠缺的。
在一支遍布三分射手的球队中，像索汉这样能搅乱内线并制造防守破坏的球员或许有一席之地。但当防守者可以放他在底角空位，转而包夹 维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 、 斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和 德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 时呢？
对于一支志在争冠的球队来说，这确实行不通。
并非巧合的是，索汉在过去两个月出场时间的锐减，正值马刺给予新秀 卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 在艰难时刻磨炼机会的阶段。
和索汉一样，布莱恩特目前最强的技能是防守全能性。他能限制像 库珀·弗拉格 (Cooper Flagg) 这样的侧翼，也能在禁区站稳脚跟。
但与索汉不同的是，布莱恩特已经逐渐展现出三分线外的威胁，其惊人的运动能力也让对手不得不防范他杀入篮下暴扣的可能。
曾经有一段时间，马刺希望索汉能成为 哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 在文班亚马身边的内线继任者。现在，随着布莱恩特打出了赛季至今最好的表现，认为他正步入正轨填补这一空缺的想法已不再疯狂。
一旦布莱恩特在这方面超越了索汉，就很难想象索汉明年还能留在圣安东尼奥。
尽管如此，直到最后，索汉依然深受球迷喜爱。上周六，当约翰逊在马刺大胜达拉斯的最后四分钟、时隔两周首次将索汉派上场时，Frost Bank 中心球馆的观众爆发出了巨大的欢呼声。
“这说明这里充满了爱，”索汉说，“我们是一家人。”
周二在洛杉矶，比赛进入第四节中段，这位唯一未登场的活跃球员坐在替补席上注视着比赛。坐在他身旁的文班亚马伸出左长臂，搭在索汉的肩膀上。
索汉挤出了一丝微笑。
这几周确实充满压力，但他知道如何应对。
“我只是活在当下，”索汉说道。
现在，他已成为马刺过去的一部分。
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)
San Antonio Spurs forward Jeremy Sochan during the second quarter of an NBA game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026.
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 forward Jeremy Sochan (10) hangs off the rim as his team prepares for a home game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.
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Why Jeremy Sochan’s tenure with the San Antonio Spurs came to an end
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. Sochan has fallen out of the Spurs’ rotation and attempts to trade him at the deadline were unsuccessful. After he was the only player from either team not to play in the Spurs’ blowout win over the Lakers on Tuesday, his future with the team is uncertain.
LOS ANGELES — With a deadline approaching, Jeremy Sochan couldn’t be sure where he was headed. But he had a couple of preferred destinations in mind.
He thought Mexico might be a nice place to spend his All-Star weekend.
Austin was in the running, too.
“It’ll be a last-minute decision,” Sochan said Tuesday night.
He now has another one to make. After more than a month on the not-so-secret NBA trade block, keeping his mental go bag ready, the fourth-year forward finally saw his once-promising Spurs tenure come to an end Wednesday afternoon.
Sochan and the Spurs agreed on a release that will make him a free agent. It put an end to a saga in which the Spurs could not find a trading partner at least week’s deadline, even while Sochan was conceding that it was “impossible not to think about” his tenuous future with the team.
“I’m not gonna lie,” he said from his locker at Crypto.com Arena on what turned out to be his last night as a Spur. “It was stressful.”
Even during the Spurs’ 136-108 victory over the Lakers, it was easy to see a break coming.
Between the two teams combined, 27 players suited up for a game the Spurs led by as many as 41 points. The only man in uniform who didn’t play a single minute was Sochan.
Asked afterward if he knew the reason why he was kept on the bench for the entirety of a rout in which even little-used third-string center Bismack Biyombo played 10 minutes, Sochan offered a polite, “no comment.”
He didn’t need to spell it out. Just as the Spurs have done in the past with veterans like LaMarcus Aldridge and Pau Gasol, they worked to find a landing spot once it became clear Sochan didn’t fit their long-term plan.
It didn’t happen in a trade. But it was bound to happen sooner rather than later, and to Sochan’s credit he never groused about the situation.
“I know that Jeremy is wanting to play more, like many people who aren’t playing as much, and I’m glad he wants that,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said Tuesday. “That’s a competitive mindset that you have to have to be successful in this league.”
What it all boils down to was that even though Sochan might be successful in the NBA someday, San Antonio wasn’t the best place for him to do it.
When the Spurs selected him out of Baylor with the ninth overall pick in the 2022 draft, they saw a guy with elite defensive ability, a mean streak, and the potential to become a Draymond Green-like connective piece on a winning team.
An experiment at point guard didn’t work. Some time at small-ball center showed more promise, but the fit there wasn’t ideal, either. And once the Spurs filled their backcourt with dynamic play creators who liked to finish at the rim or drive and kick, it became obvious that what they needed from the power forward spot — Sochan’s natural position — was a skill set he didn’t have.
On a team filled with 3-point shooters, there might be a place for a player like Sochan to muck things up inside and be an effective disruptor. But when defenders can leave him alone in the corner while doubling down on Victor Wembanyama, Stephon Castle and De’Aaron Fox?
For a team hoping to compete for championships, that just wasn’t tenable.
It is not a coincidence that Sochan’s drop in playing time over the past couple of months came at the same time the Spurs were giving rookie Carter Bryant a chance to play through some rough minutes.
Like Sochan, Bryant’s best current skill is his defensive versatility. He can make wings like Cooper Flagg work, and he can hold his own in the post.
But unlike Sochan, Bryant already is becoming a threat from the 3-point line, and his insane athleticism makes opponents respect the possibility that he might drive by them for dunks, too.
There was a time when the Spurs were hoping Sochan might be Harrison Barnes’ heir apparent in the frontcourt alongside Wembanyama. Now, with Bryant putting together the best stretch of his season, it’s becoming less crazy to think he’s on track to filling that role.
And once Bryant passed Sochan in that regard? It became hard to envision a way Sochan could San Antonio next year.
Through the end, though, Sochan remained a fan favorite. Last Saturday, when Johnson sent him onto the floor for the first time in two weeks for the last four minutes of a blowout victory over Dallas, he received a huge ovation from the Frost Bank Center crowd.
“That shows it’s all love,” Sochan said. “It’s family.”
Midway through the fourth quarter in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the only active player not to check in watched from the bench. Wembanyama, sitting next to him, wrapped his long left arm around Sochan’s shoulders.
Sochan forced a grin.
It had been a stressful few weeks, but he knew how to deal with it.
“I’m just staying in the present,” Sochan said.
Now he’s a part of the Spurs’ past.
By Mike Finger, via San Antonio Express-News