By Jared Weiss | The Athletic, 2026-04-11 01:31:36
圣安东尼奥——维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在周五对阵达拉斯独行侠 (Dallas Mavericks) 的比赛中复出，仅出场26分钟便砍下40分并抓下13个篮板，目前已正式获得赛季奖项的评选资格。
这位身高7英尺4英寸的马刺超级巨星此前曾面临无法达到65场最低参赛要求的风险，他在周一对阵费城76人 (Philadelphia 76ers) 的比赛第二节与保罗·乔治 (Paul George) 碰撞后肋骨受伤。他缺席了周三战胜波特兰开拓者 (Portland Trail Blazers) 的比赛，但计划在周五赛前热身顺利的情况下复出。在第三节，文班亚马成功跨越了20分钟的出场门槛，使这场比赛计入评选资格。
尽管周五是文班亚马本赛季参加的第64场常规赛，但他在NBA杯决赛中的出场也计入奖项资格，即便这并不计入他的官方赛季统计数据。
赛后，文班亚马对65场规则的合理性发表了看法，他浏览了将因此错过评选的球员名单，并意识到这些人的缺席可能会在多大程度上削弱这个赛季的历史地位。凯德·坎宁安 (Cade Cunningham)、卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Dončić，待上诉) 和安东尼·爱德华兹 (Anthony Edwards) 目前都没能达到这一门槛。
“在我看来，设定一个门槛、一个限制是好事，”他说，“但应该设在哪里？我不知道。这是一个好问题。”
幸运的是，文班亚马面对的是一群早已对此深思熟虑的记者。既然握着麦克风，他决定由自己来掌控这场新闻发布会。
“让我问你们一个问题，”文班亚马说，“你们认为赛季的百分之多少应该是限制？”
记者们给出了各种数字，从三分之二到80%不等。这时，文班亚马开始拆解数据。
“如果一个人打了50场比赛，场均35分钟，那是50乘以35——1750分钟，对吧？我算得对吗？”文班亚马说，“如果一个人打了75场比赛，场均20分钟，那是1500分钟。所以在我看来，不设限制也是一种很好的观点。这只是一家之言。在我看来，75%的比赛场次是比较逻辑化的，也就是61.5场，对吧？所以，62场。”
就在那一刻，一位记者告诉文班亚马他的计算完全正确，这引发了一阵轻笑。
“当然了，‘外星人’总能把这些算对，”另一位记者在文班亚马的笑声中说道。
“所以，这其中有一些很有趣的问题，”文班亚马继续说道，“但我认为，显然今年不会有例外。我觉得这在某种程度上是不公平的，但我们会看看结果如何。”
如果没能达到门槛，文班亚马本会感到无比沮丧，但他似乎也认同推动球员尽可能多出场的价值。尽管他非常看重常规赛，但他对即将到来的季后赛的兴奋之情溢于言表。马刺队（62胜19负）将获得西部2号种子，并将在周二对阵西部首场附加赛 (Play-In Tournament) 的胜者。
“这种感觉越来越真实了，我们要打季后赛了，”文班亚马说，“我很兴奋能再次参加高水平的比赛。……淘汰赛之类的比赛总是能揭示很多东西。”
如果这是他最后一场常规赛——他暗示可能会在周日对阵丹佛掘金 (Denver Nuggets) 的比赛中休战——那么他本赛季的开始和结束都是在对阵达拉斯独行侠的比赛中砍下40分。
文班亚马本赛季第三次在出场时间不足30分钟的情况下拿到40+。斯蒂芬·库里 (Steph Curry) 和克莱·汤普森 (Klay Thompson) 是职业生涯中仅有的多次做到这一点的球员，而菲尼克斯太阳队的侧翼格雷森·阿伦 (Grayson Allen) 是本赛季除他之外唯一做到这一点的球员。
文班亚马是年度最佳防守球员的公认热门，预计将入选最佳阵容第一阵容，并且是 MVP 奖项的主要竞争者之一。他一直在为自己的 MVP 竞选造势，最著名的是他曾与The Athletic 辩论，阐述为什么他应该力压俄克拉荷马城雷霆 (Oklahoma City Thunder) 球星谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 获奖。
“我的第一个论点是，防守占据了比赛的50%，而这在目前的 MVP 竞争中被低估了，”当被问及他的三个竞选要点时，文班亚马说，“我相信我是联盟中防守影响力最大的球员。第二个论点是，我们本赛季几乎横扫了雷霆，我们在他们全主力出战时击败了他们三次，在他们使用更多轮换球员时击败了他们四次。我的第三个论点是，进攻影响力不仅仅体现在得分上。”
然而，在The Athletic 的匿名 NBA 球员投票中，39% 的受访球员投票支持吉尔杰斯-亚历山大获奖，而只有 5% 的人投给了文班亚马。ESPN 记者蒂姆·邦坦普斯 (Tim Bontemps) 对100名媒体成员进行的模拟投票发现，吉尔杰斯-亚历山大在 MVP 投票中遥遥领先于文班亚马，获得了100张第一顺位选票中的88张。
这位马刺队的三年级中锋在周五比赛前场均得到24.8分、11.5个篮板、3.1次助攻和3.1次盖帽。
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Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama clinches eligibility for NBA MVP, other postseason awards
SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama has now qualified for postseason awards after returning from a left rib contusion, scoring 40 points and grabbing 13 rebounds in 26 minutes Friday against the Dallas Mavericks.
The Spurs’ 7-foot-4 superstar was at risk of falling a game short of the 65-game minimum when he suffered a rib injury after colliding with Paul George in the second quarter of Monday’s win over the Philadelphia 76ers. He sat out Wednesday’s win over the Portland Trail Blazers but planned to return Friday if his pregame warmup went smoothly. In the third quarter, Wembanyama managed to cross the 20-minute threshold required for the game to count for eligibility.
Though Friday marked Wembanyama’s 64th regular-season contest, his appearance in the NBA Cup final counts for award eligibility even if it doesn’t appear in his official season statistics.
After the game, Wembanyama opined on the veracity of the 65-game rule, going through the list of players who will miss it and recognizing how much their absences could dampen the legacy of the season. Cade Cunningham, Luka Dončić (pending appeal) and Anthony Edwards are all short of the threshold.
“In my opinion, it’s good to have a threshold, a limit,” he said. “Where do we need to put it? I don’t know. It’s a good question.”
Luckily for Wembanyama, he was in a room full of reporters who had mulled this over. He had the mic, so he decided it was his time to take control of the news conference.
“Let me ask you a question,” Wembanyama said. “What percentage of the season do you think should be the limit?”
Reporters tossed out various numbers, ranging from two-thirds to 80 percent of the season. That’s when Wembanyama started to break things down.
“If a guy plays 50 games, 35 minutes a game, that’s 50 times 35 — that’s 1,750, right? Am I right?” Wembanyama said. “If a guy plays 75 games at 20 minutes, it’s 1,500. So it’s a good view, in my opinion, to not have a limit. It’s one opinion. Seventy-five percent of the games, in my opinion, would be a logical thing, and that would be 61 1/2 games, right? So, 62 games.”
At that moment, a reporter told Wembanyama his math checked out, which got a chuckle.
“Of course, the alien gets all of it right,” another reporter said as Wembanyama laughed.
“So, there’s some interesting questions,” Wembanyama continued. “But I think, obviously, I don’t think there’s going to be an exception made for this year. I think it’d be somewhat unfair, but we’ll see how it turns out.”
Wembanyama would have been incredibly frustrated if he didn’t meet the threshold, but he seemed to appreciate the value in pushing players to show up as much as they can. And as much as he has valued the regular season, his excitement for the playoffs approaching was apparent. The Spurs (62-19) will have the No. 2 seed and play the winner of Tuesday’s first West Play-In Tournament game.
“It’s becoming more real, more and more real, that we are actually going to play in the playoffs,” Wembanyama said. “I’m excited to play in high-stakes games again. … Elimination games and such always reveal things.”
If this is his final regular-season game — he hinted he might sit out Sunday’s game against the Denver Nuggets — he has started and ended his season with 40-point outings against the Dallas Mavericks.
Wembanyama recorded his third 40-point game while playing less than 30 minutes this season. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson are the only players to do so multiple times in their careers, and Phoenix Suns wing Grayson Allen is the only other player to do it this season.
Wembanyama is the consensus favorite for Defensive Player of the Year, is expected to make first-team All-NBA and is one of the top contenders for the MVP award. He has campaigned for the MVP, most notably when he debated The Athletic over why he should win it over Oklahoma City Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
“My first one would be that defense is 50 percent of the game, and that is undervalued so far in the MVP race,” Wembanyama said when asked for his three campaign talking points. “I believe I’m the most impactful player defensively in the league. Second argument would be that we almost swept OKC in the season, and we dominated them three times with their real team and four times with the, you know, more rotation players. My third argument would be that offense impact is not just points.”
However, in The Athletic’s anonymous NBA player poll, 39 percent of polled players voted for Gilgeous-Alexander to win the award, whereas only 5 percent voted for Wembanyama. A straw poll of 100 media members by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps found that Gilgeous-Alexander had a sizable lead in MVP voting over Wembanyama, receiving 88 of 100 first-place votes.
The Spurs’ third-year center was averaging 24.8 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks entering Friday.
By Jared Weiss, via The Athletic