By Jared Weiss | The Athletic, 2026-04-27 02:39:19
俄勒冈州波特兰 —— 维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在第二场比赛中遭遇的脑震荡，用他自己的话来说，非常“诡异”。每一个环节都很诡异：他的脸部不是一次，而是两次重重地撞击在地面上；随后，这位平衡感一向惊人的球员出现了明显的意识模糊，起身时踉踉跄跄；他挥手示意队友靠近，以便交代些什么，随后又像往常一样起跑并冲出球场。整个场面令人费解。
同样扑朔迷离的还有关于他试图在圣安东尼奥马刺对阵波特兰开拓者的系列赛第三场复出的传闻，而那时距离他头部连遭重击仅过去了72小时。文班亚马 (Wembanyama) 那晚并未出战；他最终在周日第四场（太平洋时间中午12:30开球）及时获得了参赛许可。在那场比赛中，他展现了统治力，率队以114-93大胜，帮助马刺队取得了系列赛3-1的领先。
根据 Stathead 的数据，文班亚马全场砍下27分、12个篮板、7次盖帽和4次抢断，成为 NBA 历史上第10位在单场比赛中至少拿到25分、10个篮板和7次盖帽的球员。上一位达成这一壮举的球员是22年前的沙奎尔·奥尼尔 (Shaquille O’Neal)。
但在第三场比赛前，文班亚马觉得自己已经准备好了，并在通过了必要的基准评估并获得马刺队医疗团队的批准后，极力争取复出许可。
据一位知情人士告诉 The Athletic，当联盟脑震荡项目主管根据 NBA 脑震荡政策 第5(b)(iv)条拒绝给予其复出许可时，文班亚马要求由独立神经科医生进行检查。文班亚马告知该独立医生自己已准备好上场，并完成了关于症状的访谈，但 NBA 最终认定文班亚马尚未准备好在第三场比赛中回归。
在周日第四场获胜后的新闻发布会上，文班亚马声称，他并未得到关于为何没能获准参加第三场比赛的解释。
“我并不是说不出战是一个好决定还是坏决定，”文班亚马说道，“那只是一个决定。我没说它是好是坏。但处理这种情况的方式，令人非常失望。”
当被问及能否解释为何对 NBA 在第三场前认定其未通过脑震荡协议的过程感到失望时，文班亚马表示请在赛季结束后再问他，因为他不想陷入细节并因此分心。他接着补充道，他对自己与马刺队及 NBA 方面医生的互动感到满意。
“所有的医生都很棒，他们把我照顾得很好，”文班亚马说，“但处理这种情况的方式确实非常令人失望。”
文班亚马以对自己身体管理的高度自信而闻名，当马刺队要求他轮休时，他经常会据理力争要求上场。无论文班亚马是否感觉准备就绪，NBA 出于极度谨慎的考虑让他休战也是合情合理的。但他在周日下午用行动证明，他的竞技状态和他的自我感觉一样出色。
“我感觉一直很好，”他说，“甚至在体能方面，我两天前还做了有氧训练，所以我没问题。”
文班亚马在第四场比赛中多次倒地，就像他往常那样，这考验着那些最终批准他上场的医生们。马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 是真正决定谁上场、谁坐板凳的人，当被问及在那些时刻是否会屏住呼吸感到紧张时，他给出了否定的回答。
“老实说，我没有。我已经学会了信任那个年轻人，”约翰逊说，“我认为现在的挑战是让他继续保持下半场那样的表现，并贯穿全场。当他做到这一点时，我们会很强大。但如果他做不到，会对我们球队产生连锁反应。这就是作为球队门面和最佳球员所肩负的责任。”
这一直是文班亚马本赛季努力追求的目标：他能否持续打出最佳表现？他能否管理好自己和身体，随时做好准备并解决遇到的任何问题？没有人是完美的。看看在明尼苏达森林狼对阵丹佛掘金的系列赛中，鲁迪·戈贝尔 (Rudy Gobert) 是如何限制尼古拉·约基奇 (Nikola Jokić) 的——文班亚马承认约基奇是地球上最强的进攻球员。在季后赛中，每个人总会有受挫的时刻。
文班亚马在上半场就遭遇了这种情况，当他持球时，马刺队的进攻显得停滞不前，开拓者封锁了他的传球路线。在达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 半场结束前命中上篮之前，马刺队一度落后达19分。
文班亚马走向更衣室时不停地摇头，看起来正在消化开拓者主场观众的压力、球队挣扎带来的挫败感，甚至是他在职业生涯首个季后赛客场表现远低于水准的尴尬。文班亚马的竞争心极强。即便输掉无关紧要的比赛他也会生气，因为对他来说，竞争永远是有意义的。这就是为什么错过一场季后赛对他而言，即便不算是世界末日，也至少是一场危机。
他和马刺队没花多久就在下半场扭转了局面。整个赛季以来，对手在第三节面对马刺时经常会显得后劲不足，随后马刺便会发起反击。约翰逊更多地让文班亚马参与无球进攻，将开拓者的中锋吸引到禁区外，这为队友创造了多次无人防守的扣篮机会。当开拓者尝试用体型较小的防守者对位文班亚马时，他直接碾压对手轻松得分。
上一场比赛，福克斯表现挣扎，而新秀迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 则打出了创纪录的一夜。而在第四场，哈珀在数据统计上几乎没有存在感，福克斯则打出了决定性的表现。整套体系围绕文班亚马运转，但在体系中接管比赛的球员每晚、甚至每分钟都在变化。
“我们之间有这种默契。我认为我们之间没有无谓的内耗。当我们做出那些有利于整体的‘无形努力’时，我们就会打得很顺，”文班亚马说，“没有嫉妒，没人关心自己的数据。这就是我们最大的力量。”
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点击查看原文：Victor Wembanyama wanted to play in Game 3. He took out his frustration on Blazers in Game 4
Victor Wembanyama wanted to play in Game 3. He took out his frustration on Blazers in Game 4
PORTLAND, Ore. — Victor Wembanyama’s Game 2 concussion was, as he put it, “weird.” Every part of it. The way his face violently slammed to the floor not once, but twice. The apparent blackout followed by the stumble to get up from the player whose balance is always a spectacle. The waving of his teammates to come closer so he could say something, followed by him getting up and sprinting off the court like he always does. The whole situation was perplexing.
So were the rumblings that he was going to try to play in Game 3 of the San Antonio Spurs’ playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers just 72 hours after taking haymakers to the chin. Wembanyama did not play that night; he ended up being cleared in time for the 12:30 p.m. PT tipoff for Sunday’s Game 4, which he dominated en route to a 114-93 win that gave the Spurs a 3-1 series lead.
Wembanyama finished with 27 points, 12 rebounds, 7 blocks and 4 steals, becoming the 10th player in NBA history to record at least 25 points, 10 rebounds and seven blocks in a game, per Stathead. The last player to accomplish that feat was Shaquille O’Neal 22 years ago.
But ahead of Game 3, Wembanyama felt ready to play and pushed to be cleared once he passed the required baseline assessments and received the go-ahead from the Spurs’ medical staff.
When Wembanyama was not given clearance by the director of the league’s concussion program, in compliance with Section 5(b)(iv) of the NBA concussion policy, he requested an examination by an independent neurologist. Wembanyama informed the independent neurologist that he was ready to play and completed an interview regarding his symptoms, but the NBA determined Wembanyama was not ready to return for Game 3, a source briefed on the matter told The Athletic.
In a news conference following Sunday’s Game 4 win, Wembanyama claimed that he was not given a reason for why he was not cleared to play in Game 3.
“I’m not saying that not playing was a good or bad decision,” Wembanyama said. “It was a decision. I’m not saying it was good or bad. But the way the situation was handled, very disappointing.”
When asked if he could explain why he was disappointed with the process by which the NBA determined he had not cleared the concussion protocol before Game 3, Wembanyama said to ask him after the season, because he didn’t want to get into the details and have it become a distraction. He did go on to say that he was happy with his interactions with doctors, both with the Spurs and on the NBA’s side.
“The doctors all around, they were great. Took great care of me,” Wembanyama said. “But the way the situation was handled was very disappointing.”
Wembanyama has a reputation for being abundantly confident in the way he takes care of his body, often fighting to play when the Spurs tell him to sit. It’d be reasonable if the NBA held him out of an abundance of caution, regardless of whether Wembanyama felt ready to play. But he made it clear Sunday afternoon that he looks as good as he feels.
“I’ve been feeling great,” he said. “Even conditioning-wise, I did some cardio two days ago, so I’m fine.”
Wembanyama hit the deck several times in Game 4, as he usually does, testing all those doctors who did eventually clear him to play. Spurs coach Mitch Johnson, who is the one person who truly decides which players see the floor and which sit on the bench, was asked if he held his breath in those moments.
“I didn’t, to be honest. I’ve learned to trust that young man,” Johnson said. “I think the challenge now is for him to continue to play the way he did in the second half for the whole game. When he does that, we’ll be tough. But if he doesn’t do that, there’s a ripple effect for our team. That’s the responsibility that comes with being the face of the franchise and the best player.”
That has been the moving target for Wembanyama all season. Can he play his best consistently? Can he manage himself and his body to be ready at all times and solve any problem that comes his way? Nobody is perfect. Just look at what Rudy Gobert is doing to Nikola Jokić, the player Wembanyama acknowledges is the best offensive player on Earth, in the Timberwolves-Nuggets series. Everybody gets humbled in the playoffs at some point.
It happened to Wembanyama in the first half, as the Spurs offense looked stuck in the mud when he handled the ball and the Blazers walled off his playmaking outlets. The Spurs fell into a 19-point hole before De’Aaron Fox hit a layup just before halftime.
Wembanyama walked back to the locker room nodding his head, looking like he was taking in the energy of the Blazers crowd, the frustration of his team’s struggles and even the embarrassment of living well below his standards in his first road playoff game. Wembanyama is as competitive as they come. He gets ticked off when he loses meaningless games, because competition is always meaningful to him. It’s why missing one game of a playoff series felt to him like, if not quite the end of the world, at least a crisis.
It didn’t take long for him and the Spurs to flip the game in the second half. Throughout the season, opponents have often lost some steam in the third quarter against the Spurs before they pounce. Johnson used Wembanyama more off the ball to pull the Trail Blazers’ centers way outside of the paint, which created several uncontested dunks for his teammates. When the Blazers tried to use smaller defenders on Wembanyama, he just blew through them to get easy buckets himself.
Last game, Fox struggled while rookie Dylan Harper had a record night. In Game 4, Harper barely registered in the box score, while Fox had a defining outing. The system revolves around Wembanyama, but the players who take over within it change by the night, or even the minute.
“We got this connection. I think there’s no useless drama between us. We thrive when we do the invisible efforts that benefit all this,” Wembanyama said. “There’s no jealousy. Nobody cares about their stat line. So it’s our greatest strength.”
By Jared Weiss, via The Athletic