By Mike Finger | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-02-11 14:50:04
2026年1月15日，周四，圣安东尼奥，在弗罗斯特银行中心对阵密尔沃基雄鹿队之前，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋杰里米·索汉 (10号) 与队友一起热身。索汉已经跌出了马刺队的轮换阵容，且在截止日交易他的尝试未获成功。周二马刺队大胜湖人队的比赛中，他是两队中唯一没有登场的球员，他在球队的未来充满变数。
洛杉矶——随着截止日临近，杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 无法确定自己会去往何处。但在他心中，有几个理想的去向。
他觉得去墨西哥度过全明星周末或许是个不错的选择。
奥斯汀也在考虑范围内。
“这将是一个最后一刻的决定，”索汉在周二晚上说道。
现在他有了另一个决定要做。在处于那个人尽皆知的 NBA 交易流言板上一个多月后，在时刻准备好行李的状态下，这位四年级前锋终于在周三下午看到他那曾经充满希望的马刺生涯宣告终结。
索汉和马刺队达成了一项裁员协议，这将使他成为一名自由球员。这场闹剧至此落下帷幕——在上一周的交易截止日前，马刺队无法找到交易伙伴，尽管当时索汉承认“不可能不去思考”他在球队中岌岌可危的未来。
“我不说假话，”在他作为马刺球员的最后一晚，他在 Crypto.com 竞技场的更衣室里说道，“这压力很大。”
甚至在马刺 136-108 战胜湖人的比赛中，也能轻易察觉到双方的分道扬镳近在咫尺。
在两支球队总计 27 名报到的球员中，马刺队一度领先多达 41 分。然而，唯一一名身着球衣却没上场哪怕一分钟的人就是索汉。
赛后被问及是否知道自己在这样一场连极少上场的第三中锋俾斯麦·比永博 (Bismack Biyombo) 都打了 10 分钟的大胜中被按在板凳席上的原因时，索汉礼貌地给出了“无可奉告”。
他不需要把话说透。正如马刺队过去对拉马库斯·阿尔德里奇 (LaMarcus Aldridge) 和保罗·加索尔 (Pau Gasol) 等老将所做的那样，一旦明确索汉不在其长期计划中，他们就会努力为其寻找下家。
交易未能达成。但这迟早会发生，值得称赞的是，索汉从未对这种处境有过怨言。
“我知道杰里米想要获得更多上场时间，就像许多出场机会不多的球员一样，我很高兴他有这种渴望，”马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在周二说道，“这是在这个联盟取得成功所必须具备的竞争心态。”
2025年12月23日，周二，圣安东尼奥，在弗罗斯特银行中心，圣安东尼奥马刺队的杰里米·索汉（中）在第四节观看队友对阵俄克拉荷马城雷霆队时，拥抱了队友林迪·沃特斯三世 (Lindy Waters III) 和凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson)。马刺队以 130-110 击败了雷霆队。
归根结底，尽管索汉将来可能会在 NBA 取得成功，但圣安东尼奥并不是最适合他的地方。
当马刺队在 2022 年选秀大会上以首轮第 9 顺位选中这位来自贝勒大学的球员时，他们看中了他精英级的防守能力、那股狠劲，以及他在一支赢球球队中成为德雷蒙德·格林 (Draymond Green) 式衔接型核心的潜力。
控球后卫的试验宣告失败。打小球阵容中锋的尝试虽然展现出更多希望，但适配度依然不理想。随着马刺队的后场充斥着擅长冲击篮筐或突分（drive and kick）的动态进攻创造者，马刺在大前锋位置——也就是索汉最自然的位置——所需要的技能包，显然正是他所欠缺的。
在一支满是三分射手的球队中，或许会有索汉这样一名球员的位置，他在内线搅局并成为一名高效的防守破坏者。但当防守者可以无视站在底角的他，转而去包夹维克托·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？
对于一支希望争夺总冠军的球队来说，这简直无法接受。
索汉在过去两个月里出场时间的锐减，与马刺队给新秀卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 机会在一些艰难的时间段里磨炼并非巧合。
与索汉一样，布莱恩特目前最出色的技能是他的防守多样性。他可以让库珀·弗拉格 (Cooper Flagg) 这样的锋线球员打得很挣扎，也能在禁区内站稳脚跟。
但与索汉不同的是，布莱恩特已经成为了三分线外的威胁，他那惊人的运动能力也让对手不得不忌惮他持球过人完成扣篮的可能性。
曾几何时，马刺队希望索汉能成为哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 在前场搭档文班亚马的接班人。现在，随着布莱恩特打出了本赛季最出色的一段表现，认为他正步入正轨填补这一角色，也变得不再那么疯狂。
一旦布莱恩特在这一方面超越了索汉，就很难再想象索汉明年还能留在圣安东尼奥了。
2026年2月4日，周三，圣安东尼奥，在弗罗斯特银行中心对阵俄克拉荷马城雷霆队的 NBA 比赛第二节中，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋杰里米·索汉在场上。
即便到了最后，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里，两周以来第一次派索汉上场时，弗罗斯特银行中心的观众给予了他巨大的欢呼声。
“这表明一切都是爱，”索汉说道，“这是家人。”
周二在洛杉矶的第四节中段，作为唯一没有登场的活跃球员，他在板凳席上观战。文班亚马坐在他身边，用他修长的左臂搂住了索汉的肩膀。
索汉强挤出一丝微笑。
这几周压力很大，但他知道如何应对。
“我只是活在当下，”索汉说道。
现在，他已成为马刺队历史的一部分。
2026年1月22日，周四，盐湖城，在对阵犹他爵士队的 NBA 篮球比赛前，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋杰里米·索汉正在热身。(美联社照片/罗布·格雷)
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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
By Mike Finger, via San Antonio Express-News