By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-04-18 12:32:39
2026年4月10日，周五，在圣安东尼奥弗罗斯特银行中心进行的NBA比赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) (4号) 持球突破。福克斯在2025年2月通过交易加盟马刺，是球队本赛季实现翻身的关键人物，也是队中少数拥有季后赛经验的球员之一。
马刺队后卫德阿隆·福克斯将本次季后赛视为在自己辉煌履历上再添浓墨重彩一笔的绝佳机会。
“我入选过最佳阵容，也入选过全明星，”他说，“我觉得最后剩下的目标就是赢得总冠军。我认为我们很有机会。”
马刺队对队史第六冠（也是2014年以来的首冠）的追求将于周日晚上开启。这仅仅是福克斯九年职业生涯中第二次踏上季后赛赛场。这位两届全明星后卫曾在2023年随萨克拉门托国王队打入季后赛，但最终在抢七大战中遗憾负于金州勇士队。
赔率更看好拿到62胜、排名西部第二的马刺队在季后赛首轮击败42胜、排名第七的波特兰开拓者队。但福克斯和他的队友们憧憬着更远大的征程，这将巩固他的历史地位。
“我们的目标是争夺总冠军，”他说。
压力来到了福克斯这边。马刺队在去年8月为他提供了一份为期四年、价值2.29亿美元的顶薪提前续约合同，将他留队至2029-2030赛季。
甚至在给出这份巨额承诺之前，马刺队就已明确表示，他们指望福克斯帮助球队成为具备争冠实力的队伍。
“他的履历已经说明了一切，”在总经理莱特 (Wright) 于2025年2月促成那笔将福克斯从国王队带到圣安东尼奥的三方重磅交易后，主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 如此评价道。
“他是这个联盟中的顶级球员，在攻防两端都极具影响力，是真正意义上的全能战士。”
自2017年NBA选秀以首轮第五顺位进入联盟以来，福克斯的表现完全符合约翰逊的描述。
在本赛季之前，尽管福克斯因为主动与年轻后卫斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 分享球权导致场均得分有所下降，但他曾连续五个赛季场均得分至少达到23分。他在2023年入选了最佳阵容，同年首次入选全明星赛。2023-24赛季，福克斯还荣膺联盟抢断王。
2021-22赛季，他获得了联盟首届杰里·韦斯特年度最佳关键球员奖。本赛季，他再次入选全明星。
但他唯独缺少最重要的东西——总冠军。
“这显然是他职业生涯的一个重要节点，对我们来说也是如此。尤其是对他而言，身处这样一支有竞争力的球队，有机会走得更远，”斯蒂芬·卡斯尔说，“从我这周以及之前的观察来看，他非常专注。”
在常规赛对阵开拓者队的系列赛中，福克斯承担了马刺队的得分重任，帮助球队取得了2胜1负的战绩。在维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 三场全部缺阵、斯蒂芬·卡斯尔缺阵两场的情况下，这位出生于凯蒂 (Katy)、毕业于塞浦路斯湖高中 (Cypress Lakes) 的球星在三次交手中场均砍下27分。
毫无疑问，开拓者队会在防守计划中给福克斯“特殊照顾”。
2026年4月8日，周三，在圣安东尼奥弗罗斯特银行中心的主场比赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫德阿隆·福克斯 (4号) 寻找传球机会，对位波特兰开拓者队前锋图马尼·卡马拉 (Toumani Camara)。
“我认为图马尼·卡马拉 (Toumani Camara) 会更多地防守我，”当被问及是否预期由朱·霍勒迪 (Jrue Holiday) 防守时，福克斯表示，“和朱对位时，尤其是在我进入联盟的前五六年，他先后在鹈鹕和雄鹿效力，他是我最讨厌面对的防守者之一。现在，图马尼也达到了那个水准。”
“……他们有很多全能的防守者。他们有护筐球员（7英尺3英寸的多诺万·克林根 (Donovan Clingan)）。他们能打进季后赛是有原因的，很大程度上归功于丹尼·阿夫迪亚 (Deni Avdija) 在进攻端的贡献，以及其他球员在防守端的表现。”
作为NBA年度最佳队友奖的候选人，福克斯在过去几个月里一直试图指导球队中的季后赛新人，告诉他们季后赛意味着什么。他说，在本周的录像分析和训练中，新人们已经有了深刻的体会。
“在常规赛中，你会看到一些零星的调整，显然你想针对球员的习惯打球，”福克斯说，“但现在的情况是，如果他往左走我们要怎么做，如果他往右走我们要怎么做，如果这个人来掩护我们要怎么做。……在我们确定对手后的第一次训练中，那些年轻球员，那些没打过季后赛的球员，绝对见识到了常规赛和季后赛在战术准备上的巨大差异。”
福克斯曾经历过这些。现在，他希望大家能一起去感受踏上NBA总决赛地板的滋味。
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox eyes title run in second playoff appearance
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) drives to the basket during an NBA game against the Dallas Mavericks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Friday, April 10, 2026. Fox, who has been instrumental in the Spurs’ turnaround this season after being acquired in a trade in February 2025, is one of the few players on the team with playoff experience.
Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox views this postseason as a golden opportunity to add in a big way to his already impressive resume.
“I’ve been All-NBA. I’ve been an All-Star,” he said. “The last thing I think that there is, is to win a championship. And I think we have a good shot at it.”
The Spurs’ pursuit of their sixth NBA title and first since 2014 begins Sunday night in just the second playoff appearance for Fox in his nine-season career. The two-time All-Star guard made it to the postseason with Sacramento in 2023 only to be eliminated by Golden State in seven games.
Odds favor the 62-win, second-seeded Spurs getting past the 42-win, seventh-seeded Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, but Fox and his teammates envision an even deeper run, one that would cement his legacy.
“We’re trying to compete for a championship,” he said.
The pressure is on Fox to help make that happen after the Spurs gave him a four-year, $229-million maximum contract extension in August that will keep him under their control through the 2029-2030 season.
Even before they made that big commitment to him, the Spurs made it clear they were counting on Fox helping them become a championship-caliber team.
“His resume speaks for itself,” coach Mitch Johnson said after general manager Brian Wright orchestrated the blockbuster, three-team deal that brought Fox to San Antonio from the Kings in February 2025.
“He’s a top player in this league, both ends of the floor, dynamic in every sense of the word.”
Fox’s accomplishments since he entered the league as the fifth overall pick of the 2017 NBA Draft support Johnson’s description.
Before this season when his per-game scoring average dipped because he willingly shared the ball with young guards Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper, Fox averaged at least 23 points in five consecutive seasons. He earned All-NBA recognition in 2023, the same season he was selected to his first All-Star game. Fox led the league in steals in 2023-24.
In 2021-22, he collected the league’s inaugural Jerry West Clutch Player of the Year award. This season, he played in another All-Star Game.
But he lacks what counts most — a championship.
“This is obviously a big, big point in his career, just like ours, but especially for him, being on a team like this that has a chance to make a run,” Castle said. “From what I’ve seen this week and leading up to it, he’s pretty locked in.”
Fox carried the scoring load for the Spurs in helping them go 2-1 against Portland in their regular season series. With Victor Wembanyama out for all three games and Castle sidelined for two, the Katy native and Cypress Lakes graduate averaged 27 points over the three meetings.
Undoubtedly, the Blazers will have a prominent place for Fox in their defensive game plan.
San Antonio Spurs guard De’aaron Fox (4) looks to make a pass against Portland Trail Blazers forward Toumani Camara during a home game at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
“I think (Toumani) Camara will guard me more,” Fox said when asked if he expected to be defended by Jrue Holiday. "Playing against Jrue, he was, especially in my first five or six years in the league when he was with New Orleans first and then he was with Milwaukee, one of the guys I hated playing against. Now Toumani’s actually right up there as well.
“…They have a lot of versatile defenders. They have rim protection (in 7-foot-3 Donovan Clingan). There’s a reason that they were able to get into the playoffs and a lot of it has to do with what Deni (Avdija) did offensively and then what all those other guys do defensively.”
Fox, who is a candidate for the NBA’s teammate of the year award, has spent the past several months trying to coach the team’s playoff newbies on what to expect in the postseason. He said they got a good taste of it this week during film study and practice.
“During the season, you’ll see little adjustments here and there, obviously you want to play the guy’s tendencies,” Fox said. “But now it’s like if he’s going left we’re doing this, if he’s going right we’re doing this, if this person’s setting the screen we’re doing this. … The first practice we had after we knew who we were playing against, the younger guys, the guys who haven’t been here before, definitely got to see what a different scout was like between a regular season game and a playoff game.”
Fox has been there before. Now, he’s hoping they all find out what it’s like to play in the NBA Finals.
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News