By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-04-06 14:03:09
2026年4月2日，周四，在加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德举行的一场 NBA 常规赛下半场，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋凯尔登·约翰逊在得分后庆祝。该场比赛马刺对阵洛杉矶快船。(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
听马刺前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 的说法，他在工作中从未有过糟糕的一天。
对于这位 NBA 最具活力的球员之一来说，这种想法似乎几乎是不可思议的。
“我喜欢来到这里，和我的队友们在一起，”约翰逊说道，“我们享受一起打球，享受一起待在健身房里的时光。所以，即便在那些你不太想动弹的日子里，一旦你来到这里，感受到这种能量，那种疲惫感就会消失。”
约翰逊的耐用性在本赛季得到了充分体现，这位征战联盟七年的老将即将职业生涯首次完成 82 场全勤。
在周一于 Frost Bank 中心对阵费城 76 人的比赛前，26 岁的约翰逊已经出战了职业生涯新高的 78 场比赛。
他的目标是打满马刺最后四场比赛，以完成他的“铁人”赛季。
“如果可以的话，我绝对会打满，”约翰逊表示，“幸运的是，我今年一直保持健康。如果我身体健康，能像整个赛季那样和队友们并肩作战，那我肯定会上场。”
约翰逊是马刺阵中仅剩的两名仍有机会实现常规赛 82 场全勤的球员之一，另一位是朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie)。
上赛季，哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 和克里斯·保罗 (Chris Paul) 都曾完成过 82 场全勤。
在此之前，马刺自 2018-19 赛季以来就再未出现过全勤球员，当时帕蒂·米尔斯 (Patty Mills) 和布林·福布斯 (Bryn Forbes) 共同完成了这一壮举。
“这是一种真正的技能，可能并没有得到足够的讨论，”马刺主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道，“有些球员就是能做到每天晚上都准时出现在赛场‘打卡上班’。”
约翰逊对马刺升至西部第二名的贡献，不仅仅体现在出场次数上。
作为年度最佳第六人的有力竞争者，他场均贡献 13 分和 5.3 个篮板，投篮命中率达到 52.5%，创下完整赛季的职业生涯新高。在周一的比赛前，他本赛季替补登场已累计得到 1013 分，创下了马刺队史纪录。
“他对角色的接受程度比队里任何人都早，”米奇·约翰逊评价道，“在球队准备好并为他量身打造核心角色之前，我们就要求他接受当下的定位。对于一名年轻球员来说，能做到这一点几乎是闻所未闻的。”
尽管约翰逊在 3 月份曾受到持续数周的左肩伤势困扰，但他仍在向 82 场全勤的目标冲刺。
他表示目前伤情“状态良好”。
“这是一个漫长的赛季，所以显然会有一些小磕小碰，”约翰逊说道，“现在没有人是 100% 健康的，但我感觉很好，我已经准备好强势收官，并为季后赛做好准备。”
约翰逊认为，为一个 82 场全勤赛季所付出的努力可能被低估了。
即便对他来说，这并不总是像在“工作”。
“如果你能上场并保持可用状态，那对我们来说就很重要，”约翰逊说道，“无论这是否被忽视，我认为对我们团队来说，最重要的一点是我们热爱彼此相处。我们热爱每晚并肩作战。只要我们能和队友一起上场，我们就一定会出现在那里。”
马刺三分王得感谢 76 人
尚帕尼在对阵老东家 76 人的比赛中，庆祝了自己成为马刺单赛季三分王的头一天。在周六负于丹佛掘金的比赛中，尚帕尼投中了 6 记三分球，使他本赛季的三分总数达到 192 记，超越了丹尼·格林 (Danny Green) 在 2014-15 赛季创下的 191 记的纪录。
如果不是费城在 2022 年 2 月裁掉了他，让马刺有机会从裁员名单中认领他，这一切都不会发生。
“我非常感激我的整个旅程，”24 岁的尚帕尼说道，“我不会改变任何经历。……我很开心被裁掉，这可能是发生在我身上最好的事情，所以向费城致意。”
沃特斯认为原住民训练营取得成功
马刺后卫林迪·沃特斯三世 (Lindy Waters III) 获得了一个重返马刺旧训练设施的机会，这是他周日为土著和原住民球员举办的青少年篮球训练营的一部分。
“这里有很多历史，”沃特斯谈到位于马刺巷 (Spurs Lane) 的建筑时说道，该建筑在 2023 年之前一直是球队的总部。“太多的历史了。你能看到那些冠军旗帜。里面依然保留着那种老房子的味道。”
沃特斯在这里讨论的是一段比蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan)、托尼·帕克 (Tony Parker) 和马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginobili) 时代还要久远的历史。
作为凯奥瓦部落的公民，同时拥有切罗基族血统，28 岁的沃特斯通过他的基金会，并与德克萨斯州西班牙殖民传教所的美洲印第安人组织 (AIT-SCM) 以及 Nike N7 合作举办了这次训练营。
这次活动不仅仅关乎运球和传球。
“我们分成了小组，进行了更深入、更有意义的交流，不仅谈论篮球，还谈论了（孩子们）生活中想要追求的目标，”沃特斯说道。
这次训练营举办后的第二天，马刺在周一主场迎战 76 人的比赛中举办了“美国原住民遗产之夜”。去年夏天以自由球员身份加盟马刺的沃特斯表示，他非常感激俱乐部愿意致敬他的文化。
“我们都有不同的故事，不同的背景，”沃特斯说道，“每个人的历史都是不同的。马刺在讲述每个人的故事方面做得非常出色。他们给了我们一个平台来讲述我们的故事，并继续开展教育。”
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Keldon Johnson closing in on something he’s never done before
San Antonio Spurs forward Keldon Johnson celebrates after scoring during the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Thursday, April 2, 2026, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
To hear Spurs forward Keldon Johnson tell it, he’s never had a bad day at work.
The thought seems almost inconceivable to one of the NBA’s most effervescent players.
“I enjoy coming here and being with my teammates,” Johnson said. “We enjoy playing with each other and being in the gym with each other and things like that. So the days that you don’t feel like it, once you get in here and you feel the energy, it kind of goes away.”
Johnson’s durability has been on display this season, as the seventh-year pro is closing in on playing all 82 games for the first time in his career.
The 26-year-old Johnson logged a career-best 78 appearances heading into Monday’s contest against Philadelphia at the Frost Bank Center.
He aims on playing in each of the Spurs final four games to complete his iron man campaign.
“Definitely if I am able to, I will,” Johnson said. “Fortunately, I’ve been healthy this year. If I’m healthy and able to be out there with my teammates like I’ve been this whole season, then I definitely will be.”
Johnson is one of two Spurs still with a chance to turn in an 82-game regular season. Julian Champagnie is the other.
Champagnie, Harrison Barnes and Chris Paul each logged 82 appearances last season.
Before that, the Spurs had not had an all-82 game player on the roster since 2018-19, when Patty Mills and Bryn Forbes both accomplished the feat.
“That’s a real skill that probably doesn’t get discussed enough,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. ”Some of these guys just show up and clock into work every single day and night.”
Johnson’s contributions to the Spurs’ rise to the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference have come in more than the games-played column.
The NBA Sixth Man of the Year candidate is averaging 13 points and 5.3 rebounds while shooting a 52.5%, a career best over a full season. He entered Monday having totaled 1,013 points off the bench the season, the most in Spurs history.
“The role embracement from him started earlier than everybody else on this team,” Mitch Johnson said. “We asked him to embrace a role before the team was ready and was built for him to star in that role. For a young player to do that is almost unheard of.”
Johnson is pushing toward 82 games despite a nagging left shoulder injury that bothered him for several weeks in March.
He says he is “in a good spot” with that ailment now.
“It’s been a long season, so obviously there’s bumps and bruises,” Johnson said. “Nobody’s 100% right now, but I’m feeling good and I’m just ready finish out strong, and get ready to playoffs.”
The work that goes into an 82-game season probably goes unappreciated, Johnson said.
Even if it does not always feel like work to him.
“If you’re available and able to play, then to us it’s important,” Johnson said. “Whether it’s overlooked or not, I think the main thing for our group is that we love being with each other. We love playing with each other each and every night. And if we could be out there with our teammates, we’ll be there.”
Spurs’ 3-point king has 76ers to thank
Champagnie celebrated his first day as the Spurs’ single-season 3-point king with a visit from his former team, the 76ers. With six 3-pointers in Saturday’s loss at Denver, Champagnie brought his season total to 192, eclipsing Danny Green’s mark of 191 set in 2014-15.
It would not have happened had Philadelphia not waived him in February 2022, giving the Spurs a chance to claim Champagnie off waivers.
“I’m super grateful for my whole journey,” the 24-year-old Champagnie said. “I wouldn’t change it. … I’m happy I got cut. It was probably the best thing that could have happened for me, so shoutout to Philly.”
Waters deems indigenous clinic a success
Spurs guard Lindy Waters III got a chance to peek inside the Spurs’ former practice facility, as part of the youth basketball camp he hosted Sunday for native and indigenous players.
“A lot of history,” Waters said of the building on Spurs Lane where the team headquartered until 2023. “A lot of history. You got to see the banners. It still has that old smell in it.”
Waters was on site to discuss a period of history even older than the Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili era.
A citizen of the Kiowa tribe and also part Cherokee, the 28-year-old Waters put on the clinic through his foundation and in collaboration with American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions (AIT-SCM) and Nike N7.
The event was about more than dribbling and passing.
“We got to break up into smaller groups and have more deep, meaningful conversations about not only basketball but things (the kids) want to pursue in life,” Waters said.
The clinic came a day before the Spurs hosted Native American Heritage Night during Monday’s game against the 76ers. Waters, who joined the Spurs as a free agent last summer, said he appreciated the club’s willingness to celebrate his culture.
“We all have different stories, different backgrounds,” Waters said. “Everybody’s history is different. The Spurs do an amazing job at telling everybody’s stories. They give us a platform to tell our stories and continue to educate.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News