By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-03-08 12:34:42
圣安东尼奥马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在 2025 年 10 月 8 日星期三于迈阿密举行的 NBA 季前赛对阵热火队的下半场，在场边与前锋哈里森·英格拉姆 (Harrison Ingram) (55) 交流。(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
在得知 G 联盟授予他 2 月中旬的周最佳球员奖项后，哈里森·英格拉姆 (Harrison Ingram) 很快便回归到正常状态。
“噢，好的，挺酷的，”这位马刺队的双向合同侧翼在奥斯汀马刺队告知他这一荣誉后说道。
英格拉姆这种平淡的反应，既反映了奖项宣布的时机，也体现了他对待工作的严肃态度。
“我从来都不是那种追求个人荣誉的人，”他说，“当他们在比赛开始前 20 分钟告诉我这个消息时，我只是耸耸肩。获得奖项和公众的认可固然不错，但对我来说，更重要的是每天都在进步，并达到我想要的目标。”
23 岁的英格拉姆渴望身处 NBA 正赛赛场，扮演马刺主帅米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 为他精心定义的蓝领角色。
“那就是抢篮板、拉开空间、发挥无球影响力，并且成为一名——我不想说自己是‘球场恶棍’，但类似于狄龙·布鲁克斯 (Dillon Brooks) 那种类型的球员，”英格拉姆说道。
与布鲁克斯相似，身高 6 英尺 5 英寸、体重 235 磅的英格拉姆也是以二轮秀身份进入联盟。在斯坦福大学效力两年并在北卡罗来纳大学征战一个赛季后，马刺队在 2024 年选秀大会上以总第 48 顺位选中了他。但与布鲁克斯（现效力于菲尼克斯太阳队、年届 30 岁且球风硬朗的锋卫摇摆人，场均贡献职业生涯新高的 20.9 分）不同的是，英格拉姆在 NBA 职业生涯初期正花费大量时间在 G 联盟磨炼。
但这种境遇丝毫没有让他感到困扰。
“你只需要脚踏实地，做好当下的工作，”英格拉姆说，“每个人的情况都不同。我无法控制自己是在 G 联盟还是在 NBA，也无法控制上场时间的多寡。我唯一能控制的，就是只要踏上球场，就竭尽全力展现自己的风格。这就是我努力专注的事情。无论是在（马刺队）打 2 分钟、5 分钟，还是在 G 联盟打 35 分钟以上，我都要做好自己的本职工作。”
最近，他表现得相当出色。
在过去的五场比赛中，英格拉姆在场均 37.1 分钟的时间内贡献了 22.2 分、13.4 个篮板和 7.4 次助攻，这让他斩获了职业生涯首个周最佳球员奖项，也是奥斯汀球员本赛季首获此殊荣。在那段赛程中，他拿下了四次两双、一次三双，并在一场比赛中砍下了赛季新高的 30 分。
赛季至今，这位达拉斯小伙在场均 34.5 分钟的出场时间里，交出了 16.1 分、领跑全 G 联盟的 12.2 个篮板以及 4.6 次助攻的成绩单。
但马刺队衡量英格拉姆进步的标准并不仅仅是统计数据。
“他真正接受并拥抱了自己的角色，”约翰逊说道，“无论是作为一名防守者、一名充满对抗性的角色球员、打无球、努力争取球权、抢篮板、投进空位球，还是在转换进攻中奔跑，这些其实都很难做到。我们希望他成为一名顶级防守者和篮板手，他确实全心全意地投入其中了。有时你会看到随之而来的爆炸性数据，这说明他把精力放到了正确的地方。”
英格拉姆表示，接受自己作为角色球员的命运并不困难。
“篮球是一场角色分工的游戏，”他说，“每个人都有自己的职责，有些人的职责是大量投篮，有些人的职责是抢篮板，有些人负责掩护下顺，还有些人负责蹲守底角投三分。在大学里，每个人都是核心，都习惯于球在手中。但当你来到 NBA，这里汇聚了全世界最顶尖的球员。作为一名双向合同球员，争取（上场时间）的方法不是拿高分或滥投，而是找到一个角色并做到极致。”
“我找到了自己的位置。我一直知道自己是个不错的篮板手，所以今年我努力专注于此，并做好防守。”
马刺队长期以来在球员培养方面享有盛誉。英格拉姆提到，球队的助理视频协调员、曾在 2020-2022 年间担任加州大学戴维斯分校篮球运营总监的瑞恩·奥利弗 (Ryan Oliver)，在他去年的整个夏季特训中起到了关键作用。
“他每天都陪着我，”英格拉姆说，“除了周日，我们每天都进行两练。我们付出了大量努力，现在终于有了回报。他总是准时到位，准备就绪。如果我说下午 4 点练投篮，他一定在那儿。如果我晚上想加练，他也会在那儿。他本来没必要那么做，没必要在晚上回来帮我捡球。我们练习了成千上万次投篮。他真的是在全力支持我。”
得知约翰逊、奥利弗以及奥斯汀马刺队主教练雅各布·钱斯 (Jacob Chance) 都在支持自己，英格拉姆对被马刺队选中深感庆幸。
“我无法将现在的处境与其他地方相比，但我感到很幸运，因为他们非常明确地告诉了我他们的期望，”英格拉姆说，“特别是今年以来，我很清楚自己需要做什么，才能成为他们期望的那种球员。”
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Why Spurs’ Harrison Ingram is thriving in the G League
San Antonio Spurs Head Coach Mitch Johnson talks with forward Harrison Ingram (55) courtside during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Miami Heat, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Harrison Ingram quickly moved on after he learned the G League had honored him with its player of the week award in mid-February.
“Oh, OK, that’s cool,” the Spurs two-way wing said after the Austin Spurs told him about the honor.
Ingram’s underwhelming reaction reflected both the timing of the announcement and the serious way he approaches his job.
“I’ve never been one to really hang my hats on awards,” he said. “And when they told me literally 20 minutes before the start of a game, I just shrugged it off. It’s nice to be recognized with awards and by the public, but for me it’s about getting better every day and getting to where I want to be.”
Where Ingram, 23, wants to be is with the big club, playing the blue-collar role he said Spurs coach Mitch Johnson has defined well for him.
“It’s rebound, space the floor, off-ball impact, and it’s being, I wouldn’t say a dirty player, but like a Dillon Brooks sort of player,” Ingram said.
Like Brooks, the 6-foot-5, 235-pound Ingram came into the league as a second-round pick after the Spurs selected him 48th overall in 2024 following two years at Stanford and one season at North Carolina. Unlike Brooks, now a hard-nosed, 30-year-old guard/forward with the Phoenix Suns averaging a career-best 20.9 points, Ingram is spending a lot of time in the G League at the start of his NBA career.
Not that his situation bothers him in the least.
“You just got to be where your feet are,” Ingram said. “Everyone’s situation is different. I can’t control whether I’m in the G League or in the NBA or getting minutes, not getting minutes. All I can control is that whenever I get on the court, I play to the best of my ability and play my game. That’s what I try to focus on. Whether that’s two minutes with the (Spurs), five minutes with the (Spurs) or 35-plus in the G League, I just got to do my thing.”
He’s been doing it rather well lately.
Ingram won the first player of the week honor of his career and the first for an Austin player this season after averaging 22.2 points, 13.4 rebounds and 7.4 assists in 37.1 minutes over five games. In that stretch, he recorded four double-doubles, a triple-double and a game in which he scored a season-high 30 points.
For the season, the Dallas native is averaging 16.1 points, a G League-best 12.2 rebounds and 4.6 assists in 34.5 minutes.
But the Spurs aren’t just measuring Ingram’s development solely by statistics.
“He’s really accepted and embraced his role,” Johnson said, “and that can be hard to do in terms of being a defender, a physical role player, playing off the ball, trying to always continue to extend or create more possessions, rebound, knock down open shots, get out and run in transition. Then we want him to be a premier defender and be able to rebound, and that’s just something he’s really embraced. Then sometimes you do get that monster production with it, so you can tell he’s put his energy into the right spots.”
Ingram said accepting his lot as a role player hasn’t been difficult.
“Basketball, it’s a role game,” he said. "Everyone has their role and some people’s role is to shoot a lot, some people’s role is to rebound, some of us, it’s to screen and roll, some of us it’s to sit in the corner and make threes. And coming from college, everyone’s the best player, everyone’s used to having the ball. Then you get to the NBA, it’s the best players from all across the world. And as a two-way player, the way to get (playing time) is not to score a bunch, not to shoot a bunch of shots, but to find a role and excel in it.
“And I found it. I knew I was always a pretty good rebounder, so I just kind of tried to focus on that this year, and playing defense.”
The Spurs have long had a reputation for excelling at player development, and Ingram said Ryan Oliver, the team’s assistant video coordinator and the former director of basketball operations at California-Davis from 2020-2022, has been instrumental in his growth after the two worked together all last summer.
“He was there with me every single day,” Ingram said. “We did two-a-days every day but Sunday. We put in a lot of hard work and it’s paying off. He was always on time and always ready to go. If I said 4 p.m. shooting, he was always there. If I wanted to come back later at night, he was always there. He didn’t have to do that. He didn’t have to come back at night and rebound for me. And we shot thousands of shots. He was really there for me.”
To know that Johnson, Oliver and Austin Spurs coach Jacob Chance are in his corner has left Ingram feeling grateful to have been drafted by the Spurs.
“I can’t really compare it to other situations, but I feel blessed knowing how clear they’ve been with me and what they expected from me,” Ingram said. “Especially coming into this year, I really knew exactly what I needed to do to be the type of player they wanted me to be.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News