By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-02-23 13:45:15
2025年12月23日，周二，在圣安东尼奥 Frost Bank 中心进行的第四节比赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋卢克·科内特 (7) 在对阵俄克拉荷马城雷霆队的比赛中进球后指向队友。马刺队以130-110击败了雷霆队。
底特律——在学校里，当老师给**卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet)**布置写作作业时，他有时会觉得这就像是：“吃点菠菜，这对你有好处。”
但菠菜其实有很多有趣的吃法。法式菠菜馅饼、沙拉、三明治或是蘸酱；奶油焗、培根炒，或者烤成砂锅菜。对于这种绿叶蔬菜，你可以发挥极大的创意，而这正是这位马刺中锋现在对待写作的方式。
“老实说，我真的很喜欢创意写作，”科内特说，“小时候写过很多论文，但那都是些研究报告之类的内容。后来我开始写这个（博客），发现这要有趣得多，也更令人享受。”
科内特所说的“这个”，是指他那风格多元、妙趣横生的博客，发布在在线出版平台 Medium 上。
“很多人都做播客，但我发现写作更有趣一些，”他说，“你可以花时间去打磨，把它整理得更好，没错，这确实更让人享受。”
他的文字在关注者中大受欢迎。
“……每当我收到你发帖的通知时，感觉总是很棒！别停下来！”一位名叫 Ashwmarkle 的读者在科内特最新的帖子下回复道。
马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 也是一名粉丝。
“我认为他是我在篮球界接触过的思维最活跃、最有创意的人之一。他在我们的更衣室里创造了很多欢乐，”约翰逊在最近的一场比赛前告诉记者。
现年 30 岁的科内特于 2023 年夏天效力于波士顿凯尔特人队期间创办了自己的博客。
作为一名虔诚的罗马天主教徒，他的第一篇博文奉献给了他的信仰，并开启了一个他称之为旨在“照亮天主教堂和教区”的系列。他写道，这些教堂在“漫长的 NBA 赛季中一直支持、激励、鼓舞和安慰着我”。
事实上，当科内特在去年夏天与马刺队签约后，于今年 1 月份首次回到波士顿参加比赛时，凯尔特人队教练乔·马祖拉 (Joe Mazzulla) 表示，他对自己这位旧部印象最深的事情之一就是他“在客场征战时也会去参加弥撒”。
“我希望通过分享这些令人赞叹的礼拜场所，以及其中信徒们更令人赞叹的信仰，能够让人们发现天主教信仰中独特的真理、善良与美丽，”科内特写道。
在他最喜欢的礼拜场所中，包括纽约著名的圣帕特里克大教堂。他的帖子中经常包含他拍摄的所访教堂的内外部照片。
“2023-24 赛季有一个相当不错的开始，”科内特写道，“圣帕特里克大教堂，纽约大主教驻地……只要时间允许，我总是愿意坐一小会儿地铁去圣帕特里克大教堂，而那天时间刚好允许！与曼哈顿第五大道上没完没了的店面相比，走进这里是一种令人难以置信的清新与宽慰。我是说，看看这些门！”
2026年1月15日，周四，在圣安东尼奥 Frost Bank 中心对阵密尔沃基雄鹿队的比赛前，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋卢克·科内特 (7) 在球场上进行热身。
在另一篇早期的帖子中，科内特谈到了他有多喜欢加拿大的国歌《哦！加拿大》。
“这是一首构思完美的国歌——简洁、开场强力、情感过渡自然、最后以凯旋式的盛大收尾，”他写道，“我只想说，如果他们有一家更好的公关公司和更宜人的气候，他们就得在南部边境筑起一道墙，把我们挡在外面了！”
科内特曾离开键盘约两年时间，直到今年 1 月才回归，用他的话说，是给“隐喻性的笔和羊皮纸再一次尝试的机会”。
“这是我想重新捡起来的东西，”他说，“我喜欢写一些幽默的东西，也能把其他事情联系起来。老实说，我发布这些内容只是为了磨练和练习。”
“现在有些人可能会问：‘卢克，你为什么离开这么久？是什么让你觉得这次你不会放弃？维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 为人怎么样？’这些都是很好的问题，有些我被问到的频率比其他的要高，”科内特写道，“事实是，我是一个意志薄弱、不愿承诺的虚假作家，我产出最丰硕的作品也不过是每年的圣诞卡感言和 9 岁时写的 3 页自传（想必那台 Gateway 电脑的硬盘一定还存在于某处）。”
在最近的帖子中，科内特描写了马刺队几周前从遭遇暴雪的夏洛特飞回圣安东尼奥时经历的冬日风暴闹剧；谈论了依赖上帝如何带给他自由；以及他对新英格兰爱国者队教练迈克·弗拉贝尔 (Mike Vrabel) 的崇拜。
“看看任何体育媒体，”他写道，“你一定会发现关于这位身高 6 英尺 4 英寸的前线卫的故事，他通过尖锐的玩笑和真诚的肢体关怀让真理盛行（女士们，找一个能同时做到这两点的男人吧）。他既能亲自冲锋陷阵，也能指挥他人进入战壕。作为一个男人，你会为被他吸引而感到羞耻，而当你的妻子也有同感时，你会感到既欣慰又糟糕。”
科内特表示，完成一个帖子通常需要一到三个小时，而且并不总是一次性完成。
“我会把它放一小会儿，也许那天晚上晚些时候或第二天再回来，试着用新鲜的视角审视，删掉一些东西，重构一些内容，”他说。
科内特在发布帖子之前，还会让几位“编辑”把把关。
“我会征求他们的意见，确保内容扎实，”他在周一对阵活塞队的比赛前说，“我会发给我的妻子，确保里面的内容我们都觉得没问题。如果涉及到某些特定话题，我会让特定的人看看，尤其是信仰方面的内容。我得确保表达准确，不会给出错误的见证或类似的事情。”
科内特以联盟中最幽默的球员之一著称，所以他的笔触往往带有喜剧色彩。
“你希望能处于一个合适的空间，既不会冒犯或侮辱任何人，又能以一种人性化的方式来表达，”他说。
于是，科内特在最近的一次训练后被问到：你的书什么时候出版？
“我们正与出版商洽谈，”他开玩笑地告诉记者，随后补充道，“可能性为零。好吧，我不知道。写书可能要到人生很晚的时候了。博客就挺好玩的。”
考虑到他的爱好，科内特热爱阅读也就不足为奇了。他有很多喜欢的书，包括斯蒂芬·科尔伯特的讽刺作品《我是美国（你也可以！）》、J.R.R. 托尔金的史诗奇幻小说《指环王》，以及费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的哲学经典《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》。
“那可能是我读过的最喜欢的书，但也非常深奥，读起来很费劲，”科内特在接受《圣安东尼奥快报》采访时谈到了这部以 19 世纪俄罗斯为背景的陀思妥耶夫斯基杰作。
“我会试着读一些经典作品。今年我读了（欧内斯特·海明威的）《老人与海》，这类书有些是你上学时为了考试而读的，当时其实并不明白书在讲什么。我只是试着去读很多不同的东西。”
至于他的博客，那完全是为了寻找乐趣并探索自己的创意的一面。
“我真的很享受其中，”他说。
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How the Spurs’ Luke Kornet is getting creative off the court
San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet (7) points to his teammates after making a basket against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
DETROIT — When teachers gave Luke Kornet a writing assignment in school, it sometimes hit him like, “Eat your spinach. It’s good for you.”
But there’s plenty of ways to make spinach fun. Quiche Florentine, salads, sandwiches and dips. Creamed, sautéed with bacon, or cooked into a casserole. You can get pretty creative with the leafy green, which is also how the Spurs center approaches writing now.
“Honestly, I really enjoy creative writing,” Kornet said. “Wrote a lot of papers as a kid, but they’re all like research papers and stuff like that. Then I started doing this and it’s way more fun and way more enjoyable.”
“This” is Kornet’s eclectic, entertaining blog, which can be found on the online publishing platform Medium.
“A lot of people have podcasts, but I find writing to be a little bit more fun,” he said. “You can take time and curate it a little more and, yeah, it’s kind of more enjoyable.”
And it’s a big hit with his followers.
“…Always a great feeling when I get the notification you’ve posted! Don’t stop!” a reader named Ashwmarkle wrote in response to Kornet’s latest post.
Spurs coach Mitch Johnson is also a fan.
“I think he’s one of the most creative minds I’ve ever been around in basketball. He creates a lot of joy in our locker room," Johnson told reporters before a recent game.
Kornet, 30, launched his blog in summer 2023 while with the Boston Celtics.
A devout Roman Catholic, he devoted his first post to his faith, introducing what he called a series intended to “shine a light on the Catholic churches and parishes” that have “sustained, inspired, uplifted, and comforted me throughout the long NBA season.”
Indeed, when Kornet returned to Boston in January for the first time since he signed with the Spurs last summer, Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said one of the things he remembered most about the big man was he “went to Mass when we were on the road.”
“I hope sharing these incredible houses of worship and the more incredible faith of the patrons therein will open eyes and hearts to the unique truth, goodness, and beauty of the Catholic faith,” Kornet wrote.
Among his favorite houses of worship: New York City’s famed St. Patrick’s Cathedral. His posts often included his photos of the interiors and exteriors of the churches he visited.
“Quite the start for the 2023–24 season,” Kornet wrote. “St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Seat of the Archbishop of New York. … I am always down for a little subway ride to make it to St. Pat’s if time permits and this day, time permitted! It is an incredibly refreshing and relieving place to enter compared to the never-ending storefronts of 5th Avenue in Manhattan. I mean look at these doors!”
San Antonio Spurs center Luke Kornet (7) walks on the court to warm up before the game against the Milwaukee Bucks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.
In another early post, Kornet talked about how much he likes the Canadian national anthem “O Canada.”
“It’s as perfect of an anthem as one can construct — succinct, starts strong, emotional bridge, rounds back for a triumphant big finish,” he wrote. “I’m just saying if they had a better PR firm and a more hospitable climate, they’d have to be building a wall on their southern border to keep us out!”
Kornet pushed himself away from the keyboard for about two years before returning in January to give what he called the “metaphorical pen and parchment another shot.”
“It’s something I wanted to pick back up,” he said. “I like writing for humor and also to be able to tie in some other stuff too. I was kind of putting them out there, honestly, just to get reps and practice it.”
“Now some may ask, “Luke, why were you away so long? What makes you think you won’t give up this time? What’s Victor like as a person?” All great questions, some of which I’m asked more than others,” Kornet wrote. “The truth is that I’m a weak-willed, noncommittal sham of a writer whose most prolific works consist of annual Christmas card musings and a 3-page autobiography I wrote when I was 9 (surely that Gateway hard drive exists somewhere.)”
In his most recent posts, Kornet wrote about the winter-storm drama the Spurs experienced in traveling from a game in snow-plagued Charlotte back to San Antonio a few weeks ago, how being dependent on God has brought him freedom, and his admiration for New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel.
“Look around any sports media outlet,” he wrote, “and you’re bound to find stories about the 6’4” former linebacker who lets truth reign via hard-biting jokes and genuine, physical affection (get you a man who can do both, ladies.). Able to enter the trenches as well as he can direct others into them. Who, as a man, you’re ashamed to be attracted to and then feel both better and worse about it when your wife feels the same way."
Kornet said it typically takes him anywhere from one to three hours to complete a post and that it’s not always done in one session.
“I’ll leave it for a little bit and then maybe come back later that night or the next day and try to look through a fresh lens and cut out some stuff, restructure some stuff,” he said.
Kornet also has a few “editors” look at his posts before he publishes them.
“I ask their thoughts and make sure it’s all kind of solid,” he said after before Monday’s game against the Pistons. “I send it to my wife just making sure it’s all stuff we’re cool with. And then if it hits on certain topics, I have certain people I have look at it, especially with faith stuff. I want to make sure it’s not inaccurate or that I’ve given a bad witness or anything like that.”
Kornet has a reputation for being one of the funniest players in the league, so what he pens often has a comedic touch.
“You hopefully can live in this right space where nothing’s offensive or insulting but also have the ability to kind of be human about it,” he said.
So, Kornet was asked after a recent practice, when does your book come out?
“We are in talks with publishers,” he jokingly told reporters, before adding, “zero (chance). Well, I don’t know. A book would probably be much later in life. The blogs are fun.”
Not surprisingly given his hobby, Kornet also loves to read and has a variety of favorite books, including Stephen Colbert’s satire “I Am America (And So Can You!)”, J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic high-fantasy novel “Lord of the Rings”, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky philosophical classic “The Brothers Karamazov”.
“That was probably maybe my favorite book that I read, but that was also pretty advanced and difficult to get through,” Kornet said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News of Dostoeysk’s masterpiece set in 19th century Russia.
“I try to read some of those classics a little bit. I read (Ernest Hemingway’s) ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ this year, some of those books you read in school for a test and you actually didn’t get what the book was about. I just try to read a lot of different stuff.”
As for his blog, it’s all about having fun and exploring his creative side.
“I really enjoy it,” he said.
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News
