By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-03-17 04:15:15
2026年3月16日，周一，在加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德举行的一场NBA常规赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋维克托·文班亚马在球队战胜洛杉矶快船队后走下球场。(美联社照片/Ryan Sun)
加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德讯——马刺队在这个令人兴奋的翻身赛季中达成了一个重要的里程碑，但维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 希望球队能追求更多。
文班亚马砍下21分、13个篮板和4次盖帽，斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 贡献了23分、8次助攻和7个篮板，马刺队在周一晚上以119-115力克洛杉矶快船队，拿到了本赛季的第50场胜利。
在上赛季仅取得34胜之后，马刺队自2016-17赛季（当时球队以61胜收官并一路杀入西部决赛）以来首次重返NBA“50胜俱乐部”。
但他们的当家球星远未满足。
“有所进步，但还不够，”文班亚马表示，“我想至少拿到60胜，以此来抵消我新秀赛季的战绩。”
在2023年NBA选秀大会上以状元签选中文班亚马后，马刺队在2023-24赛季仅取得22胜60负。目前常规赛还剩14场，马刺队的战绩为50胜18负，在西部联盟落后排名第一的俄克拉荷马城雷霆队三个胜场。
对于一支自2月1日以来取得18胜2负（联盟最佳）战绩的球队来说，很难怀疑他们能否在剩余赛程中打出至少10胜4负的表现，尤其是当文班亚马已经将其设定为目标时。
“他说这还不够，还不够，”马刺队前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道，“你不能安于现状。当你拥有一些特别的东西时，你不能留下任何遗憾。你必须去争取我们所能实现的一切，甚至更多。……为什么不是60胜呢？”
不过就目前而言，马刺队可以为达到这个门槛而感到自豪，这在充满冠军荣耀的蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan) 时代曾是家常便饭。2016-17赛季是这位名人堂大前锋退役后的首个赛季，也标志着该加盟保持的连续18个赛季至少取得50胜的NBA纪录画上句点，这一纪录始于1999-2000赛季。
自1976年ABA与NBA合并以来，没有任何一支球队比马刺队的28次50胜赛季更多。洛杉矶湖人队以27次位居第二，波士顿凯尔特人队以22次紧随其后。
“在这个联盟拿到50胜非常艰难，”马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道，“我们不需要赋予它过多的意义。在这个联盟中，50胜是很难达成的。”
第50胜确实来之不易。即便缺少了科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard)（左脚踝扭伤），快船队（34胜34负）依然给马刺队制造了巨大的麻烦，他们在首节一度领先14分，虽然在第三节落后多达24分，但最终在比赛还剩38秒时将分差缩小到了4分。
“那支球队打得非常拼命，在缺少头号球星的情况下和我们缠斗了48分钟，直到最后时刻，”约翰逊说道。
赛前，米奇·约翰逊被问及马刺队是否在训练营期间讨论过赢得这么多场比赛的可能性。他表示，10月份唯一的目标是建立球队的“品牌和身份”。
在周二晚客场挑战萨克拉门托之前，马刺队锁定自2018-19赛季以来首个季后赛席位的魔术数字是4。
“我们从未谈论过要赢多少场比赛。我们从未谈论过季后赛、附加赛或是赛季的最终结局，”他说道，“我们所做的是将我们的品牌和身份建立到了一个令我们满意的清晰度。现在，我们必须在执行这种品牌和身份时保持更高的一致性，剩下的就顺其自然吧。”
对于至少两名球员——凯尔登·约翰逊和德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 来说，达成50胜是反思他们在圣安东尼奥度过的那些艰难岁月的时刻。
“50胜了，宝贝，”约翰逊说道，他是目前马刺队效力时间最长的球员，已经在这里待了七个赛季，“没有人预料到我们会达到现在的高度。这是团队努力的结果。每个人都齐心协力，每个人都有着相同的目标，这证明了我们可以完成任何事情。”
“拿到50胜的感觉太棒了，”拥有六年职业经验的瓦塞尔说道。他在周一晚上的关键表现中砍下20分，包括在快船队将分差缩小到6分后，在一次暂停回来后投进了一个15英尺的急停跳投，并在比赛还剩30秒时两罚全中，为马刺队确立了6分的领先优势。
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“这证明了我们每年为了变得更好而付出的努力，”瓦塞尔补充道，“这展示了我们投入了多少心血，以及我们对这个过程有多么信任。”
文班亚马对此表示赞同。
“我希望在未来的所有赛季中我们都能保持这样专注，因为这是非常高水平的准备工作——无论是心理上还是身体上——对每个人来说都是如此，还有我们进行的录像分析工作，”文班亚马说道，“这就是为什么我们为这个赛季做好了如此充分的准备。”
现在，挑战在于强势收官并冲击60胜。
“米奇说得最好，在这个联盟里，无论在赛季的哪个阶段，赢得50场比赛都很困难，”卡斯尔说道，“这充分说明了我们打得有多好，以及教练组为我们准备每一场比赛的工作做得有多出色。”
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Victor Wembanyama wants Spurs to finish season with 60 wins
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama walks off the court after the team’s win against the Los Angeles Clippers during an NBA basketball game Monday, March 16, 2026, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Spurs have reached a significant milestone in their exciting turnaround season, but Victor Wembanyama wants them to push for much more.
Wembanyama had 21 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks, Stephon Castle finished with 23 points, eights assists and seven rebounds, and the Spurs outlasted the Los Angeles Clippers 119-115 Monday night for their 50th win.
After winning just 34 games last season, the Spurs are in the NBA’s 50-win club for the first time since the 2016-17 team finished with 61 wins on its way to the Western Conference Finals.
But their star player is far from satisfied.
“There’s growth, but still not enough," Wembanyama said. "I want to get at least 60 to balance out my rookie season.”
The Spurs finished 22-60 in 2023-24 after selecting Wembanyama No. 1 overall in the 2023 NBA Draft. With 14 games left in the regular season, the Spurs are 50-18 and trail the first-place Oklahoma City Thunder by three games in the Western Conference.
For a team that’s a league-best 18-2 since Feb. 1, it’s hard to bet against them going at least 10-4 the rest of the way, especially with Wembanyama having made it a goal.
“He says it’s not enough, it’s not enough,” Spurs forward Keldon Johnson said. “You can’t settle. When you have something special, you can’t leave anything on the table. You got to go get everything that we can achieve and more. … Why not 60?”
For now, though, the Spurs can take a bow or two for reaching a threshold that was a given during the championship-laden Tim Duncan era. The 2016-17 season, the club’s first after the Hall of Fame power forward retired, marked the final year of the franchise’s NBA-record run of 18 consecutive seasons with at least 50 wins, a streak that started in 1999-2000.
Since the ABA-NBA merger in 1976, no franchise has recorded more 50-win seasons than the Spurs’ 28. The Los Angeles Lakers are second at 27 followed by the Boston Celtics at 22.
“Fifty wins in this league is tough,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “We don’t need to make it more than that. Fifty wins in this league is hard to get.”
No. 50 certainly was. Even without Kawhi Leonard (sprained left ankle), the Clippers (34-34) gave the Spurs all they could handle, jumping out to a 14-point lead in the first quarter before falling behind by 24 in the third only to pull within four with 38 seconds left.
“That team played their butts off and took us to the end, 48 minutes, without their best player,” Johnson said.
Before the game, Mitch Johnson was asked if the Spurs ever discussed during training camp the possibility of winning so many games. The only goal in October, he said, was to build the “brand and identity” of the team.
Heading into Tuesday night’s game at Sacramento, the Spurs’ magic number to clinch their first playoff berth since the 2018-19 season is four games.
“We never talked about ‘X’ amount of wins. We never talked about playoffs, play-in, and the final end for the season,” he said. “What we’ve done is we’ve established our brand and our identity to a level of clarity I think we are satisfied with. Now we have to be more consistent in playing that brand and that identity and just let the chips fall where they may.”
For at least two players, Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell, reaching 50 was a moment to reflect on all the lean years they have endured in San Antonio.
“Fifty wins, baby,” said Johnson, the longest-tenured current Spur at seven seasons. “Nobody ever thought we would be where we are at. It’s a team effort. Everybody is on the same page. Everybody has the same goals and it just shows you that we can get anything done.”
“It’s amazing to win 50,” said Vassell, a sixth-year pro who had 20 points Monday night in a clutch performance that including hitting a 15-foot pull-up jumper with about four minutes left coming out of a timeout after the Clippers had pulled within six and sinking a pair of free throws with 30 seconds left to give the Spurs a six-point advantage.
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“It’s a testament to the hard work that we put in each year to try to get better and better,” Vassell added. “It just shows how much work we put in and how much we trusted the process.”
Wembanyama agreed.
“I hope we can be this locked in for all the seasons to come because it was a really high level of preparation - mentally, physically - for everybody, the amount of film (study) we did,” Wembanyama said. “And this was why we were so ready for the season.”
Now, the challenge is to finish strong and get to 60.
“Mitch said it best, it’s hard to win 50 games in this league, no matter what point of the season it’s in,” Castle said. “It speaks highly of how well we’ve been playing and how well our coaching staff has prepared us for each game.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News