By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-05-04 14:22:21
2026年4月6日，周一，在圣安东尼奥弗罗斯特银行中心（Frost Bank Center）对阵费城76人队的NBA比赛结束后，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在返回更衣室前亲吻了他的妻子蕾西·福克斯 (Recee Fox)。福克斯表示，蕾西帮他减少了像要票请求之类的外界干扰。
对于马刺队的达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 来说，在季后赛期间设定界限以防干扰并不是什么难事。
这位28岁的全明星后卫在常规赛期间就已经牢牢确立了这些规矩。
“大家都知道别打电话找我要票，”福克斯说道，“如果他们给我妻子（蕾西）之类的人打电话，那是另一回事。但即使我回（休斯敦）家，也别找我要票。”
由于季后赛期间专注于本职工作比以往任何时候都更重要，自4月中旬开始备战季后赛以来，马刺队一直在采取措施消除场外干扰。
主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在全队面前率先谈到了这个话题。
“我们在季后赛开始前聊过这个，”福克斯说，“米奇告诉了我们他会怎么做，或者他正在做什么。但显然每个人都有自己的方式。我不知道这算不算一件大麻烦，但对我个人而言，无论是常规赛还是季前赛，都别打电话找我要票。”
“比起帮人弄票，我有更多其他需要操心的事情。”
后卫斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 表示，由于全家人曾一起经历过2024年的NCAA锦标赛，他的家人知道不要用各种请求来淹没他。那个赛季，作为大一新生的卡斯尔帮助康涅狄格大学蝉联了冠军。
“我们不是第一次经历这种场面了，”他说道。
进入季后赛意味着球员们可能不得不缺席家庭聚会或其他原本会参加的活动。
“这是我们很多人必须做出的牺牲，尤其是在每年的这个时候，”21岁的卡斯尔说，“但我个人觉得，我的家人一直让这些事情变得很简单。”
和福克斯一样，卡斯尔的季后赛应对方式与他处理常规赛的方式并没有太大区别。
“一整年我都很直接地（专注于）比赛，所以对我来说真的没有太大不同，”这位2024-25赛季的NBA年度最佳新秀表示。
屏蔽媒体评论，包括对比赛或系列赛走势的预测，也是球员们在季后赛期间“戴上眼罩”专注比赛的一部分。
“我们并不真正关注那些嘈杂的声音，也不在乎别人怎么评价我们，”前锋德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 说道，“我们有自己的目标，并且已经讨论过很多次了，所以我们并不会太关注媒体的说法或舆论风向。”
约翰逊表示：“我们一整年都做得很好，没有被（媒体的闲谈）所影响，也没有把精力浪费在那些我们无法控制的事情上。”
谈到家庭，25岁的瓦塞尔表示，他试图在减少社交活动和增加工作投入之间取得平衡。
“我不想说要屏蔽掉一切，但你会试着把所有事情都控制在一个很小的范围内，”他说道，“家人已经明白是怎么回事了。球票的事，该怎样就怎样。但我认为最重要的是‘让最重要的事始终是最重要的事’（keep the main thing the main thing）。现在，最重要的就是赢得这些篮球比赛，专注于我们为了赢球必须关注的事情。”
“所以对于所有的外界杂音和干扰，我们都尽量将其降到最低。你的家人会向你提要求之类的，这很自然，但你要试着把其余的事情都当作外界杂音。如果（家人）过来，我会让他们和我的父母住在一起。但说实话，现在我们正处于极度专注的状态。”
26岁的前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 表示赞同。
“我们清楚眼下的任务，”他说道，“我们知道最终目标是什么，我们会继续让最重要的事始终是最重要的事。一旦我们进入这里（训练馆），我们就会继续团结在一起，继续享受乐趣。我们享受每一天，享受彼此的陪伴，享受一起做每一件小事。”
“所以我并不担心如何屏蔽外界杂音。这个团队在这方面做得非常出色。因此，我们会继续保持这种趋势，继续支持彼此，继续做我们一整年都在做的事情。我认为我们的状态会非常好。”
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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How Spurs try to keep distractions at bay during playoffs
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) kisses his wife Recee Fox before heading back to the locker room after an NBA game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Monday, April 6, 2026. Fox said Recee helps him cut down on outside distractions like ticket requests.
Setting boundaries to guard against distractions during the playoffs isn’t a problem for the Spurs’ De’Aaron Fox.
The 28-year-old All-Star guard already had them firmly in place during the regular season.
“People know not to call me asking for tickets,” Fox said. “If they call my wife (Recee) or something, that is what it is. But even when I go home (to Houston), don’t ask me for tickets.”
With the need to focus on their jobs more important than ever during the postseason, the Spurs have been taking steps to eliminate off-the-court distractions ever since their preparations for the playoffs started in mid-April.
Coach Mitch Johnson kicked it off by addressing the topic in front of the team.
“We kind of talked about it before the playoffs started,” Fox said. "Mitch kind of told us what he would do or what he was doing. But obviously to each their own. I don’t know if I’d necessarily say it’s a big thing, but for me personally, regular season, preseason, don’t call me for tickets.
“I got other stuff to worry about than to get somebody tickets.”
Guard Stephon Castle said his family knows not to inundate him with requests after they all went through the 2024 NCAA Tournament together. As a freshman that season, Castle helped Connecticut win their second championship in a row.
“It’s not our first rodeo,” he said.
Being in the playoffs means players might have to skip family gatherings or other activities they might otherwise attend.
“It’s a sacrifice a lot of us have to make, especially at this point of the year,” said Castle, 21. “But I feel like for me personally my family has always made that stuff kind of simple for me.”
Like Fox, Castle’s playoff approach doesn’t differ much from how he handled the regular season.
“I’ve been pretty straightforward on (focusing on) just games all year, so it’s not really too much different for me,” the 2024-25 NBA Rookie of the Year said.
Shutting out commentary from media, including predictions on how a game or series will go, is also part of the players putting blinders on during the playoffs.
“We don’t really look into the noise and to what everybody else has to say about us,” forward Devin Vassell said. “We have goals, and we’ve talked about it many times, so we’re not really too focused on what the media, what the narratives, are saying about us.”
Said Johnson, “We’ve done a good job all year of not feeding into it (media chatter) or giving power to things that we don’t control.”
As far as family goes, Vassell, 25, said he tries to strike a balance between reducing his outside activities and increasing the focus on his job.
“I don’t want to say you shut everything down, but you try and just keep everything in a narrow window,” he said. "Family already knows what it is. Tickets, that’s just how it is. But I think the main thing is keep the main thing the main thing. And right now it’s just winning these basketball games and focusing on what we got to focus on to win these basketball games.
“So all the outside noise and the distractions, we try to keep that to a limit. Your family’s going to ask you for stuff and all that. That’s just natural, but you’re trying to keep the rest of the stuff just outside noise. If (family) comes in, I have them staying with my parents. But right now, we’re just ultra locked in, honestly.”
Forward Keldon Johnson, 26, agreed.
“We know the task at hand,” he said. "We know what our end goal is and we just continue to keep the main thing the main thing. Once we get in here (the practice facility), we just continue to stay together and continue to have fun. We enjoy each and every day. We enjoy being in each other’s presence, enjoy doing all little things together.
“So I have no worries on keeping the outside noise the outside noise. And this group has been amazing with doing that. So we just continue to have that trend, continue to have each other’s back, continue to just do what we’ve been doing all year. And I think we’ll be in great shape.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News