By Joe Vardon | The Athletic, 2026-06-02 19:49:13
《The Athletic》将为您带来尼克斯对阵马刺的2026年NBA总决赛第一场实况报道。
圣安东尼奥——如果不是因为德克萨斯州西南部此时有着近100华氏度（约38摄氏度）的高温，圣安东尼奥马刺队球员们的球衣恐怕至今还会被周六晚上喜极而泣的泪水所浸湿。
如今，新的一页已经翻开。在这位22岁、身材瘦长却活力无限的领袖维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的带领下，圣安东尼奥自2014年以来首次重返NBA总决赛。他们与纽约尼克斯队的首场对决将于周三晚上8点30分打响。不过马刺队在总决赛首战前夕坦言，他们仍在努力平复击败强敌的兴奋感——为了走到这一步，他们在西部决赛中连赢第六场和第七场，才艰难淘汰了卫冕冠军俄克拉荷马雷霆队。
“从那种兴奋的状态中走出来是一个挑战，一切还没结束，”文班亚马在周二的总决赛媒体日上表示，“我们真的需要脚踏实地，并意识到最艰难的部分还没有到来。任务还远远没有完成。所以我们大概还有……我看看现在几点了，大概还有30多个小时来重新调整专注力。”
在周六那场惊心动魄的抢七大战中，马刺队以111-103击败雷霆队。比赛中，圣安东尼奥曾多次建立起巨大的领先优势，却眼睁睁看着俄克拉荷马雷霆一路顽强反扑，将分差缩小到咫尺之间。当终场哨声响起，文班亚马在佩科姆中心（Paycom Center）的球场上公开落泪，队友们围着他尽情庆祝，雷霆队球员也纷纷向他致意，祝贺他赢下这轮系列赛。
在职业生涯的首次NBA季后赛中，文班场均可以贡献23.2分、10.8个篮板和3.5次盖帽。他透露，在抢七大战凯旋、飞机降落圣安东尼奥后，他第一时间就见到了前主帅格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich)。文班将那场胜利带来的情绪波动描述为“确实是好久没有体会过的感觉了”。
通过击败雷霆队以及两届常规赛MVP得主谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander)，马刺队确保了NBA将连续第八个赛季诞生新的冠军，这也是该联盟历史上最长的一段没有球队能实现卫冕的时期。
“我们走到这一步，可不是为了到处炫耀我们是西部冠军的，”马刺队后卫德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 说道，“我们想坐在这里宣布我们是NBA总冠军，我们赢下了总决赛。之前的胜利确实很美妙，但我们已经准备好开启新的篇章了。”
连续第三轮系列赛，已经豪取季后赛11连胜的尼克斯队，都将面对一个刚刚经历过抢七大战才晋级的对手。此前，他们以逸待劳等待费城76人队，随后将其轻松击溃。之后，在又经历了一段漫长的休整、等待克利夫兰骑士队在抢七中淘汰底特律活塞队后，尼克斯队在东部决赛首战第四节还剩约8分钟、落后22分的情况下完成惊天逆转，将比赛拖入加时并最终取胜。最终，尼克斯队以总分差77分的绝对优势横扫了骑士队。
“这是一支由经验丰富的球员组成的伟大球队，他们能走到今天绝非偶然，而是多年来坚持不懈努力的结果，”文班亚马在谈到尼克斯队时表示，“他们每个人都有着截然不同的职业生涯轨迹。在我看来，他们现在正处于他们该在的位置。他们每个人都会以自己的方式对胜利保持极度的渴望。”
尼克斯队和马刺队曾在12月的NBA杯决赛中相遇，当时纽约在一场定胜负的比赛中赢下了胜利。因此，尼克斯队有望成为NBA杯短暂历史上，首支在同一赛季同时夺得杯赛冠军和联盟总冠军的球队。
纽约的东部决赛MVP杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 在今年季后赛中场均贡献26.9分和6.6次助攻。他表示，自己的首场总决赛“情绪肯定会更加高涨，毕竟这周围的一切氛围都非同寻常。”
身高6英尺2英寸（约1.88米）的布伦森，比官方身高7英尺4英寸（约2.24米）的文班亚马矮了至少14英寸（约36厘米）。不过，正如马刺队和这位法国球星对尼克斯队充满敬意一样，布伦森对文班也给予了同样的尊重。
“看他打球真的太不可思议了，”布伦森说道，“他在攻防两端所展现出的能力，显然是人们以前从未在如此体型的球员身上见到过的，这真的令人叹为观止。”
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Spurs still need to ‘come down to Earth’ after emotional Game 7 win
The Athletic has live coverage of Knicks vs. Spurs in Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals.
SAN ANTONIO — If it weren’t about 100 degrees here in southwest Texas, the San Antonio Spurs’ jerseys might still be wet from their tears of joy from Saturday night.
The page has turned, and San Antonio, with its lanky, 22-year-old dynamo Victor Wembanyama leading the way, is back in the NBA Finals for the first time since 2014, with Game 1 against the New York Knicks set for 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. But the Spurs admitted on the eve of Game 1 that they are still getting over the big fish they caught just to get here — defending champion Oklahoma City — by winning games 6 and 7 of the Western Conference finals.
“Coming back down from this is a challenge. It’s not done yet,” Wembanyama said Tuesday during finals media day. “We still need to really come back down to Earth and realize we haven’t done the hardest (thing) yet. The job isn’t done at all. So we still got about, I don’t know, what time is it, like 30-plus hours to recenter.”
The Spurs beat the Thunder, 111-103, on Saturday in a thrilling Game 7 in which San Antonio built multiple big leads, only to watch Oklahoma City fight its way back to within striking distance. When it ended, Wembanyama openly wept on the Paycom Center court as his teammates celebrated with him and the Thunder congratulated him on the series triumph.
Wemby, who is averaging 23.2 points, 10.8 rebounds, and 3.5 blocks in his first NBA postseason, said he saw former coach Gregg Popovich as soon as the Spurs landed at home following their Game 7 triumph, and described the emotions from the win as “really something I haven’t felt in a while.”
By beating the Thunder and two-time reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Spurs ensured there would be a new champion for the eighth consecutive season, the league’s longest stretch without a back-to-back winner.
“We didn’t get here to say, we’re the Western Conference finals champions,” Spurs guard Devin Vassell said. “We want to sit here and say we’re the NBA champions, we won the finals. It was great while it lasted, but we’re ready for the next chapter.”
For a third consecutive series, the Knicks — who have won 11 consecutive playoff games — are facing an opponent that needed to win Game 7 to advance. They sat around and waited for Philadelphia, then dismantled the 76ers. And then, after another lengthy layoff waiting for the Cleveland Cavaliers to beat Detroit in Game 7, the Knicks came from 22 points down with about eight minutes left in the fourth quarter to send Game 1 of the East finals into overtime, where New York won it. The Knicks swept the Cavs by a total of 77 points.
“It’s a great team of experienced guys who are not here by chance, but by relentless effort over the years,” Wembanyama said of the Knicks. “Very different career paths for all of them. They’re right where they’re supposed to be, in my opinion. All of them are going to be super hungry in their own way.”
The Knicks and Spurs met for the NBA Cup finals in December, a single game that was won by New York. The Knicks, therefore, can become the first team in the Cup’s short history to win a league championship in the same season.
New York’s Jalen Brunson, the East finals MVP, is averaging 26.9 points and 6.6 assists this postseason. He said his first finals game “is definitely going to be heightened, just because of everything that goes on around it.”
At 6-foot-2, Brunson is at least 14 inches shorter than Wembanyama (listed at 7-4). He was equally respectful of Wemby as the Spurs and French star was of the Knicks.
“Watching him as a player, it’s pretty unbelievable,” Brunson said. “The things he’s able to do on both sides of the ball, just, obviously, people have never really seen before for a person of his size, so it’s incredible to watch.”
By Joe Vardon, via The Athletic