By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-03-17 04:15:15
圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在2026年3月16日星期一于加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德进行的NBA常规赛下半场抢下篮板。(美联社照片/Ryan Sun)
加州英格尔伍德讯 —— 马刺队在这个令人兴奋的翻身赛季中达到了一个重要的里程碑，但维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 希望他们能追求更多。
文班亚马贡献了21分、13个篮板和4次盖帽，斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 砍下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，拿到了赛季第50场胜利。
在上赛季仅取得34胜后，这是马刺自2016-17赛季（当时球队以61胜完赛并一路杀入西部决赛）以来，首次重返NBA“50胜俱乐部”。
但他们的头号球星远未满足。
“有进步，但还不够，”文班亚马说，“我想至少拿到60胜，来抵消我新秀赛季的战绩。”
在2023年NBA选秀大会上以状元秀身份选中文班亚马后，马刺在2023-24赛季仅取得22胜60负。目前常规赛还剩14场，马刺战绩为50胜18负，在西部落后排名第一的俄克拉荷马城雷霆队3个胜场。
对于一支自2月1日以来取得联盟最佳18胜2负战绩的球队来说，很难怀疑他们能否在剩余比赛中打出至少10胜4负，尤其是文班亚马已经将其设定为目标。
“他一直在说这还不够，还不够，”马刺前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道，“你不能安于现状。当你拥有特别的东西时，你不能留下任何遗憾。我们必须去争取所有能实现的成就，甚至更多……为什么不能是60胜呢？”
不过就目前而言，马刺可以为达到这个门槛而感到自豪，这在充满冠军荣誉的蒂姆·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，也标志着该球队连续18个赛季至少取得50胜（始于1999-2000赛季）这一NBA纪录的终结。
自1976年ABA与NBA合并以来，没有哪支球队比马刺的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胜很难，”马刺主帅米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，“我们不需要把它过度解读。在这个联盟，50胜是很难达成的。”
第50胜确实来之不易。尽管缺少了科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard)（左脚踝扭伤），快船队（34胜34负）依然给马刺制造了巨大麻烦，他们在首节一度领先14分，虽然在第三节落后多达24分，但在比赛还剩38秒时将分差缩小到了4分。
“那支球队拼尽了全力，在缺少头号球星的情况下和我们鏖战了48分钟，”约翰逊教练说道。
赛前，约翰逊教练被问及马刺是否在训练营期间讨论过赢得这么多场比赛的可能性。他说，10月份唯一的目标是建立球队的“品牌和特质”。
在周二晚上客场对阵萨克拉门托的比赛之前，马刺锁定自2018-19赛季以来首个季后赛席位的魔术数字是4。
“我们从未谈论过具体的胜场数。我们从未谈论过季后赛、附加赛或赛季的最终结局，”他说，“我们所做的是将我们的品牌和特质建立到了一个令我们满意的清晰水平。现在我们必须在执行这种品牌和特质时保持更强的一致性，然后顺其自然。”
对于凯尔登·约翰逊和德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 这两名球员来说，达到50胜是一个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，他是目前马刺效力最久的球员（七个赛季），“没人想到我们会达到现在的高度。这是团队的努力。大家心往一处想，劲往一处使。每个人都有相同的目标，这证明了我们可以完成任何事情。”
“拿到50胜太棒了，”职业生涯进入第六年的瓦塞尔说道，他在周一晚上的关键表现中贡献了20分，包括在快船追至仅差6分后，在一次暂停回来后投中了一记15英尺的急停跳投，并在比赛还剩30秒时两罚全中，为马刺奠定了6分的领先优势。
“这是对我们每年为了变得更好而付出的努力的证明，”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（process）的信任程度。”
文班亚马对此表示赞同。
“我希望我们在未来的所有赛季都能保持这种专注度，因为无论是心理还是身体上，大家的准备工作都做得非常扎实，包括我们进行的那些录像分析，”文班亚马说，“这也是为什么我们这个赛季准备得如此充分。”
现在，挑战在于强势收尾并冲击60胜。
“米奇说得最好，在这个联盟无论在赛季的哪个阶段，赢得50场比赛都很困难，”卡斯尔说，“这充分说明了我们最近的表现有多出色，以及教练组为每场比赛所做的准备有多充分。”
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Victor Wembanyama wants Spurs to finish season with 60 wins
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama grabs a rebound during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers 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. 6
“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