By Mike Finger | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-06-04 02:59:45
2026年6月3日星期三，在圣安东尼奥冰霜银行中心举行的NBA总决赛第一场对阵纽约尼克斯队的比赛中，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) (1) 对一次进攻做出反应。
相比于担忧，文班亚马更多的是感到好笑，他完全满足了那位闯入者的愿望。这位身高7英尺4英寸的法国人站在背景处，保持着安全距离，对着镜头露出了微笑。
如果他当时看起来有些不知所措，那也是完全可以理解的。
“我以前从未遇到过那种情况，”文班亚马在谈到总决赛首战的那一幕时说道。当时，我们这个追求流量的国家中，最“杰出”的年轻小丑之一手持手机，冲上了冰霜银行中心的地板。“我当时不知道该怎么办。”
下一次他会准备得更好。这就是文班亚马在今年整个NBA季后赛中的行事轨迹，也是他职业生涯至今的一贯习惯——几乎每次他显得像个凡人时（就像周三马刺以95-105输给纽约尼克斯队的比赛中那样），他都会如此应对。
他处理数据，将其归档，然后让对手显得无能为力。
如果这一趋势继续下去呢？
下一批闯入者最好小心点，无论他们是拿着自拍杆还是带着包夹战术朝文班亚马扑来。
“我一点也不担心，”这位马刺中锋在谈到以0-1落后开启自己的首次NBA总决赛时说道。
这或许就是年轻的特权之一。到目前为止，在文班亚马的经历中，在季后赛系列赛中落后从未成为过问题。
他和马刺在面对安东尼·爱德华兹 (Anthony Edwards) 和森林狼时做到过逆转；在面对谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 和卫冕冠军雷霆时也做到过。在文班亚马看来，杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 和尼克斯又有什么不同呢？
尽管这听起来有些自大，但文班亚马依然不服输。在21投仅6中（投丢15球）、出现6次失误，并在首战一些最关键的篮板球争夺中被卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 凭借身体优势压制之后，他的结论并不是高大且对抗激烈的尼克斯打乱了他的节奏。
他的诊断是：自己打得很差。
至于改变这一局面的良药？
“就好像我只需要打出正常表现就行，”文班亚马说，“甚至都不需要打得有多好。”
2026年6月3日星期三，在圣安东尼奥冰霜银行中心举行的NBA总决赛第一场比赛中，一名球迷冲上球场，与圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋维克托·文班亚马 (1) 合影。
在所有超级巨星输掉NBA总决赛后的言论中，这句话绝对算得上是最令人愉悦、近乎不敬却又陈述事实的表态之一。而最疯狂的是，你很难反驳他。
如果文班亚马能打出正常水准——当然，这是以他那令人匪夷所思的“文班亚马标准”来衡量——马刺将有能力赢下这轮系列赛的几乎每一场比赛。
举个例子，如果他周三的投篮是21投10中、三分球9投3中（而不是21投6中、三分9投2中），马刺还会丢掉第三节那14分的领先优势吗？如果他在最后一分钟做出一次“正常”的文班亚马式表现，而不是把球运到自己脚上出界，他们不也完全有机会在当家球星状态低迷的夜晚赢下比赛吗？
确实如此，但事情也有另一面。你知道还有谁的三分球也是9投2中，且投篮命中率远低于平时吗？那就是杰伦·布伦森，但他依然狂砍30分，并在关键时刻统治了比赛。
这位前维拉诺瓦大学的后卫对在圣安东尼奥夺冠并不陌生——他曾率领野猫队在阿拉莫穹顶体育馆夺得2018年NCAA全国冠军。
马刺中锋维克托·文班亚马在总决赛首战输给尼克斯后表示：“我们以前在系列赛中落后过。当然，在总决赛中这还是第一次。但我不会为任何事情自责。我一点也不担心。” pic.twitter.com/0HH8GrSQrF
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) 2026年6月4日
如果他像文班亚马评估自己那样去评估自己周三的表现，他可能会得出类似的结论。如果尼克斯在前三节就得到一个表现“正常”的布伦森，他们赢得的可能就不是10分，而是20分了。
另一个让尼克斯与马刺本赛季季后赛遇到的任何对手都不同的因素是：在第二轮中，爱德华兹为森林狼打出了精彩的表现，但在为时已晚之前，他没有从朱利叶斯·兰德尔 (Julius Randle)、杰登·麦克丹尼尔斯 (Jaden McDaniels) 或纳兹·里德 (Naz Reid) 那里获得任何二把手式的助力。在分区决赛中，俄克拉荷马城雷霆的杰伦·威廉姆斯 (Jalen Williams) 和阿杰伊·米切尔 (Ajay Mitchell) 遭遇关键伤病，这基本上将所有的组织重任都压在了吉尔杰斯-亚历山大一人身上，而他无法独木支天。
但布伦森呢？他拥有唐斯这位入选过最佳阵容的强力帮手，后者完美地扮演着自己的角色。而且，他身边还有一群经验丰富、见惯了大风大浪的硬角色，他们绝不会因为文班亚马一次不讲道理的盖帽，或者迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 与斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 一次凶狠的夹击而慌了阵脚。
“我不想用‘冷静’这个词，”布伦森说，“但我认为我们很清楚自己需要做什么。”
这正是文班亚马、哈珀和卡斯尔在前几轮中所展现出的姿态，我们有理由相信他们会再次做到。正如马刺更衣室里饱经沧桑的智者俾斯麦·比永博 (Bismack Biyombo) 在周三深夜所说的那样：“系列赛的第一场比赛，大家基本上都在互相试探。”
尼克斯想看看，面对那种在上一轮中切特·霍姆格伦 (Chet Holmgren)（老天保佑）无法提供的体型和身体对抗时，文班亚马会如何应对。
唐斯、OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby) 和米切尔·罗宾逊 (Mitchell Robinson) 都不是好惹的。但在某些时刻，文班亚马必须深入篮下，开始与他们肉搏。
如果他们试图再次像那个手持相机的跳梁小丑那样侵入他的领地呢？
可以肯定的是，站在背景里微笑绝对不再是一个选项。
下一次，文班亚马会非常清楚该如何应对。
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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Why another Victor Wembanyama adjustment might make Knicks, intruders
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) reacts to a play during Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the New York Knicks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
More amused than concerned, Victor Wembanyama did exactly what the intruder wanted. The 7-foot-4 Frenchman stood in the background, at a safe distance, and smiled for the camera.
If he appeared unsure of his next move, it was understandable.
“I’ve never been in that situation,” Wembanyama said of the moment in Game 1 of the NBA Finals when one of our clout-chasing country’s most brilliant young buffoons stormed the Frost Bank Center court wielding a cell phone. “I didn’t know how to act.”
He’ll be better prepared the next time. That’s been Wembanyama’s track record throughout these NBA playoffs, and it’s been his career-long custom almost every time he’s looked as mortal as he did in the Spurs’ 105-95 loss to the New York Knicks on Wednesday.
He processes the data. He files it away. Then he makes the other guys look helpless.
And if the trend continues?
The next intruders better be careful, whether they’re coming at Wembanyama with a selfie stick or a double-team.
“I’m not worried in the slightest,” the Spurs center said of beginning his first NBA Finals with a one-game deficit.
And this might be one of those privileges of youth. Thus far, in Wembanyama’s experience, falling behind in a playoff series never has proven to be a problem.
He and the Spurs did it against Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves. They did it against Shai-Gilgeous Alexander and the defending champion Thunder. The way Wembanyama sees it, why should Jalen Brunson and the Knicks be any different?
As cocky as it makes him sound, Wembanyama remains unconvinced. After missing 15 of his 21 shot attempts, turning the ball over six times, and getting outmuscled by Karl-Anthony Towns for some of Game 1’s most important rebounds, his takeaway was not that the big, physical Knicks had knocked him off his game.
His diagnosis was that he played poorly.
As for his remedy to change the outcome?
“It’s almost like I have to play (just) normal,” Wembanyama said. “Not even good.”
A fan runs onto the court to take a selfie with San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) during Game 1 of the NBA Finals at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.
That ranks among the most delightfully disrespectful matter-of-fact quotes any superstar has uttered after losing an NBA Finals game, and the crazy thing is that it’s difficult to argue with it.
If Wembanyama plays normally, by admittedly absurd Wembanyama standards, the Spurs will be in position to win most every game in this series.
If he shot, say, 10-for-21 from the field and 3-for-9 from 3-point range on Wednesday (rather than 6-for-21 and 2-for-9), would the Spurs have blown that 14-point third-quarter lead? And if he’d made a “normal” Wembanyama play in the final minute instead of dribbling the ball off his foot, wouldn’t they have been in position to overcome their star’s off night, anyway?
Sure, but there’s a flip side to that. You know who else shot 2-for-9 from the 3-point line, and way below his usual percentage from the field? That would be Jalen Brunson, who still poured in 30 points and dominated down the stretch.
The former Villanova guard knows a thing or two about winning championships in San Antonio — his Wildcats won the 2018 NCAA title at the Alamodome.
Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, after a Game 1 loss to the Knicks: “We’ve been down in a series before. Never in the finals, obviously. But I’m not kicking myself about anything. I’m not worried in the slightest.” pic.twitter.com/0HH8GrSQrF
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) June 4, 2026
If he evaluated his own performance Wednesday the way Wembanyama evaluated his, he might reach a similar conclusion. If the Knicks had received the benefit of a “normal” Brunson game for the first three quarters, they might have won the game by 20 instead of 10.
Another factor that makes the Knicks a different animal than any the Spurs have seen this postseason: In the second round, Edwards played great for Minnesota, but didn’t get any second-fiddle boost from Julius Randle or Jaden McDaniels or Naz Reid until it was too late. In the conference finals, key injuries to Oklahoma City’s Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell put essentially all of the playmaking responsibilities on Gilgeous-Alexander, and he couldn’t do it alone.
But Brunson? He has the benefit of an All-NBA talent in Towns, playing perfectly in his role. And he’s playing with a group of been-there, done-that gamers who aren’t going to be flustered by one rude Wembanyama block or one aggressive Dylan Harper-Stephon Castle trap.
“I don’t want to say calmness,” Brunson said, “but I think we know what we have to do.”
That’s the way Wembanyama, Harper and Castle carried themselves in previous rounds, and there’s reason to believe they will again. As the grizzled sage in the Spurs’ locker room, Bismack Biyombo, put it late Wednesday night, “the first game of a series is when everybody’s kind of testing each other.”
The Knicks wanted to see how Wembanyama would react to the kind of size and physical presence that a guy like Chet Holmgren, bless his heart, didn’t offer in the last round.
Towns, OG Anunoby and Mitchell Robinson are no pushovers. But at some point, Wembanyama is going to have to get down there under the basket and start mixing it up with them.
And if they try again to invade his space the way that camera-wielding buffoon did?
It’s safe to say that smiling in the background won’t be an option.
Next time, Wembanyama will know exactly how to act.
By Mike Finger, via San Antonio Express-News