By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-04-17 15:19:40
目前马刺队中效力时间最长的两名球员已经迫不及待地想要迎接周日晚上的到来了。
凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson)（效力第七个赛季）和德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell)（第六个赛季）将在周日晚上8点于霜冻银行中心球馆（Frost Bank Center）拉开帷幕的西部季后赛首轮对阵波特兰的七场四胜制系列赛中，迎来职业生涯的季后赛首秀。
“是的，我和KJ都超级兴奋，”瓦塞尔周五在胜利资本训练中心（Victory Capital Performance Center）结束训练后说道。
“我们一直在反复讨论这件事。甚至今天早上还在聊。能处在现在这个位置感觉很好，不仅是为了我们自己，也是为了这个社区和一直在这里守候、等待的球迷们。”
“虽然这迟到了很久，但我们终于来了，并且准备好出发了。”
约翰逊（出战452场）和瓦塞尔（370场）在进入这场对决前，分别在NBA现役未参加过季后赛的球员中排名第四和第六。作为一支球队，这是马刺自2019年西部季后赛首轮历经七场大战负于丹佛以来，首次重返季后赛舞台。
“感觉有点坐立不安，”瓦塞尔说，“我准备好上场了。我已经一周没打比赛了，感觉真的很奇怪，但这段休息时间也很不错。大家都很健康，感觉良好，所以准备好开始大干一场了。”
瓦塞尔表示，他知道季后赛在“身体对抗”以及“大量的媒体关注和外界噪音”方面会与常规赛有所不同，“一切都会被放大”。为了应对这一切，他表示球队的计划是坚持在常规赛中卓有成效的打法。在常规赛中，他们赢得了62场胜利，仅次于俄克拉荷马城，以西部2号种子的身份结束了赛季。
“我们的计划就是保持初心，专注于自身以及我们在过去82场比赛中所做的事情。对我们来说，没什么会真正改变，”他说。
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Playoff anticipation has Spurs’ Keldon Johnson, Devin Vassell ‘antsy’
The two longest-tenured current members of the Spurs can’t wait for Sunday night to arrive.
Keldon Johnson (seventh season) and Devin Vassell (sixth) will be making the first playoff appearances of their careers when the team’s first-round best-of-seven Western Conference matchup with Portland gets underway at 8 p.m. at the Frost Bank Center.
“Yeah, me and KJ are super excited,” Vassell said after practice Friday at the Victory Capital Performance Center.
"We’ve been talking about it over and over. We were even talking about it this morning. But it’s just good to be in this position, not only just for us, but for the community and for the fans that have been here and kind of been waiting.
“It’s been a long time overdue, but we’re here and we’re ready to go.”
Johnson (452 games) and Vassell (370) will enter the contest ranked fourth and sixth, respectively, among active NBA players without a playoff appearance. As a team, the Spurs are making their first appearance in the playoff since they lost in seven games to Denver in the first round of the 2019 Western Conference Playoffs.
“Feeling a little antsy,” Vassell said. “I’m ready to play. I haven’t played for a week. It feels really weird, but it’s been a good time off. Everybody’s healthy, feeling good, so ready to get this thing going.”
Vassell said he knows the postseason will be different from the regular season in terms of “physicality” and “a lot of the media, a lot of the outside noise” and that “everything is heightened.” To counter all that, he said the team’s plan is to stick with what worked so well for them during the regular season when they won 62 games to finish the season seeded No. 2 in the West behind Oklahoma City.
“Our plan is just to be the same, focus on us and the same stuff that we’ve been doing this past 82 we played. Nothing really changes for us,” he said.
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News