By Joe Vardon | The Athletic, 2026-06-06 04:46:16
圣安东尼奥——对于圣安东尼奥马刺队冉冉升起的超级巨星维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 而言，总决赛第二场的最后30秒显得异常残酷，他投丢了两次投篮，并遭遇了一次灾难性的失误。
这次失误可能是代价最惨重的。周五的比赛还剩大约12秒，双方战成104平，纽约尼克斯队后卫杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 中投不中，文班亚马抢下篮板。他开始带球向前推进，随后试图传球给队友斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle)，但此时卡斯尔正背对着他，也准备全速向前场奔跑。
文班亚马的传球直接砸在了卡斯尔的背上，布伦森见状控制住球，并造成了文班的犯规。
“在他刚抢下篮板时，我看着他，”卡斯尔说道，“然后我就开始往前跑，试图给他拉开空间，好让他运球推进。我没看到他把球传给我。
“那时候，我只是在往前场跑。我看到维克托拿着球。比分是平局。我只是想给他拉开空间。”
布伦森罚球两罚一中，帮助尼克斯队以105-104险胜，并在2026年NBA总决赛中取得了大比分2-0的领先。
“在付出了这么多努力之后，却以这种方式把胜利送掉，这是最令人沮丧的事，”文班亚马说道，“是我搞砸了，我亲手送掉了比赛。”
比赛还剩大约六分钟时，尼克斯队的OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby) 顶着文班亚马完成隔扣，帮助球队以97-83领先。然而，这一记扣篮并没有击垮马刺队，反而成了他们的“清醒剂”。圣安东尼奥随后连得14分，将比分扳平。
文班在上半场仅出手4次得到7分，但在第四节独得10分，全场砍下29分（21投11中）、9个篮板和4次盖帽。在最后一次进攻中，他为达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 进行掩护，福克斯在顺下后将球回传给他，但文班在20英尺处的投篮砸在后铁上弹出。
“我当然喜欢那次出手，”文班亚马说道。他那艰难的30秒始于在104平局时投丢的一个17英尺中投。“我觉得在那个时刻，你必须出手去得分。在这样的时刻，结果往往比过程更重要，你懂我的意思吧。我们只需要得分，我只需要把球投进，这就是全部的目的。”
文班表示，在最后三次进攻中，他的大脑有些“一片空白”。在比赛刚刚结束的节点，他的意思可能是当时一切都还处于混沌状态，他说道：“我需要保持更多的沉着，对比赛有更好的掌控。”他还表示，马刺队一直在给自己挖坑，导致他们陷入了艰难的境地。
“这就是我们目前的基调，”文班亚马说道。
这是文班亚马的首次季后赛之旅。对于一位年仅22岁、且显然是队内绝对核心的球员来说，无论结果是输是赢，能一路打进总决赛都已是一项非凡的成就。他表示：“我觉得我本可以更好地从分区决赛的兴奋劲中调整过来，”他指的是球队在击败卫冕冠军俄克拉荷马城雷霆队、赢下第六和第七场比赛晋级总决赛后的狂喜。
但现在，他和马刺队已经陷入了一个极少有人能爬出来的深渊。在总决赛中大比分0-2落后的球队，在37次系列赛中仅有5次成功逆转，而且从未有球队在丢掉前两个主场的情况下完成过逆转。
想到周五比赛中自己那艰难的收尾，文班亚马说道：“我会为此感到后悔吗？是的，当然。我会以此为动力，来激励自己和我们在下一场比赛中奋起反击吗？那是绝对的。”
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Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama reflects on end of Game 2: ‘I threw that one away. I messed up’
SAN ANTONIO — The final 30 seconds of Game 2 were pretty brutal for Victor Wembanyama, the San Antonio Spurs’ rising superstar, with two misses and a disastrous turnover.
The turnover may have been the most costly. With the score tied 104-104 and about 12 seconds left Friday, New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson missed a jumper, and Wembanyama grabbed the rebound. He started to push the ball ahead and then threw a pass to teammate Stephon Castle, whose back was turned so he, too, could sprint down the court.
Wembanyama’s pass hit Castle in the back, and Brunson corralled it and drew a foul on Wemby.
“I was looking at him when he first got the rebound,” Castle said. “I just started to take off to try to give him some space to dribble up the court. I didn’t see him throw it to me.
“At that point, I’m just running up the court. I see Vic has the ball. Tie game. I’m just trying to give him space.”
Brunson made one of two foul shots for the Knicks’ 105-104 win and a 2-0 series lead in the 2026 NBA Finals.
“That’s the most frustrating thing, to throw it away after putting in all this work,” Wembanyama said. “I threw that one away. I messed up.”
The Knicks’ OG Anunoby dunked on Wembanyama with about six minutes left for a 97-83 lead. Rather than sink the Spurs, the dunk served as a wake-up call. San Antonio scored the next 14 points to tie the score.
Wemby, after scoring just 7 points on four shots in the first half, scored 10 in the final quarter and finished with 29 points (on 11-of-21 shooting), nine rebounds and four blocks. He was the screener for De’Aaron Fox on the final possession, and Fox threw the ball back to him off the roll for a 20-footer that clanged off the back of the rim.
“Of course I liked the shot,” said Wembanyama, whose tough 30 seconds began with a missed 17-footer and the score tied 104-104. “I feel like in this moment you need to shoot to score. In moments like this, it’s like results matter more than process, if you know what I mean. We just need to score. I just need to score. That’s the whole point.”
Wemby said he was “blurry” over the final three possessions. He likely meant that it was all still a haze, just moments after the game had ended, and said, “I need to have more poise, more control over the game.” He also said the Spurs have been digging themselves into holes that are leaving them in tough spots.
“That’s been the theme so far,” Wembanyama said.
This is Wembanyama’s first playoff run. That it will end, up or down, in the finals is a remarkable feat for a 22-year-old who is clearly his team’s best player. He said, “I think I could have been better in recovering from the high of the conference finals,” referencing the euphoria of winning Games 6 and 7 against the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder to reach this point.
But now he and the Spurs are in a hole that few have been able to dig out of. Teams that trail 2-0 in the finals have gone on to win just five of 37 series, and none of those wins came when the first two losses occurred at home.
Thinking about his tough finish to Friday’s game, Wembanyama said: “Am I going to regret it? Yes, of course. Am I going to use that to fuel me and to fuel us next game? Absolutely.”
By Joe Vardon, via The Athletic