By Michael C. Wright, 2026-06-11 15:34:06
纽约——首节还剩41.7秒，圣安东尼奥马刺以37-20领先，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 一屁股坐在地板上，兴奋地鼓着掌，并用右手食指指着自己的右太阳穴。
就在刚才，米切尔·罗宾逊 (Mitchell Robinson) 一记肘击正中文班亚马的面部。
在周三晚上第四场比赛早期的那个瞬间，情况似乎很明朗：文班亚马和他的队友们已经彻底搞乱了罗宾逊和纽约尼克斯的心态。然而对马刺来说不幸的是，他们没能将这种心理优势保持下去——在惨遭 107-106的惜败 中，他们挥霍了多达29分的领先优势，让尼克斯完成了NBA总决赛历史上最大分差的逆转，系列赛大比分也以1-3落后。在最后几秒，OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby) 补篮点进了杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 投失的三分球，为这次大逆转画上了句号，也将圣安东尼奥马刺推向了淘汰的边缘。双方的第五场对决将于周六在霜银中心进行。
“我现在脑子里在想什么？”文班亚马说道，“ think它会朝两个方向之一发展：坏的方向或好的方向。坏的方向是放弃。好的方向则是通过这次经历变得更强大、更团结。我知道这就是我们要做的。”
然而，赛后麦迪逊广场花园客队更衣室里的景象却令人心生疑虑。许多球员依然穿着球衣，低着头默不作声，大多数人紧盯着手机。其中一部手机砰的一声掉在地上，滑到了房间中央的白板下面，一名马刺工作人员赶忙跑过去将其捡起。
在这支年轻且处于上升期的马刺队充满教训的常规赛和季后赛征程中，这一次无疑是最痛的。
“就我们所争夺的荣誉和当时的处境而言，这绝对是（最惨痛教训）榜单的第一名，”主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道，“我们在上半场付出了那么多努力，取得了那样的领先优势，却没能完成收尾工作，这至少可以说是令人极其失望的。”
比赛还剩13.1秒，圣安东尼奥马刺仅领先1分，老将控卫达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 冲向篮下试图上篮，这本可以帮助马刺建立3分的领先优势。就在福克斯奔向篮筐时，阿奴诺比迅速补防，最终封盖了这次上篮尝试。这一回合为阿奴诺比随后通过绝杀补篮完成逆转敞开了大门。但福克斯本可以通过控球消耗时间，直到尼克斯被迫对他犯规，从而避免这一局面的发生。
“你必须去得分，”福克斯说道，“试着完成上篮，领先3分，逼迫他们必须投三分。OG完成了一次漂亮的盖帽。”
然而在此之前，在比赛还剩1分47秒、马刺以103-104落后时，文班亚马曾两罚不中。
马刺压根没想过自己会陷入这种境地。他们在前两节狂砍76分，带着27分的领先优势进入半场休息，结果下半场全队39投仅8中，并伴随10次失误，仅仅得到30分。
“我们背离了之前行之有效的一切打法，”新秀后卫迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 说道，“上半场我们投进了许多高难度球。说实话，那是由于我们打球的方式是正确的。下半场因为领先，我们丢掉了这些。我们就是不能松开油门。我坐在这里说是一回事，我们上场去做到又是另一回事。”
德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 和哈珀在前两节外线合力投出7投7中，帮助圣安东尼奥马刺创下了NBA总决赛半场三分球命中数（14个）的历史纪录。半场结束时，马刺已有四人得分上双——文班亚马、瓦塞尔、哈珀和福克斯，他们合力砍下了全队76分中的59分。
除了在开局打出12-2的进攻高潮外，马刺在早期还找到了让卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 陷入犯规麻烦的方法。开场仅62秒，这位中锋就在一次原本吹罚文班亚马犯规的回合中，领到了自己的第二次犯规。
约翰逊对针对文班亚马的这次犯规判罚（发生在唐斯突破时）提出了挑战，随后判罚被改判为唐斯的进攻犯规。
罗宾逊随即替补登场换下唐斯。
与此同时，圣安东尼奥马刺在首节11投9中，其中三分球8投6中，一度取得21分的领先优势，纽约尼克斯在首节结束前将分差缩小到19分。这19分的领先优势创下了自2016年以来NBA总决赛首节最大领先纪录，当时克利夫兰骑士在总决赛第六场首节结束时以31-11领先金州勇士。
马刺在本系列赛的首节累计净胜分达到了+47，但如果他们无法赢下比赛，这一切都毫无意义。圣安东尼奥马刺在本系列赛的每一场比赛中都曾取得过两位数的领先，但他们仅在第三场比赛中成功将优势保持到了最后。
“我不知道该怎么形容这种情绪，但毫无疑问这很痛苦，”文班亚马说道，“感觉就像我们付出了极大的努力，却轻易丢掉了领先优势。这真的很伤人。”
文班亚马在第三场比赛中出场了44分钟，而在第四场上半场马刺一度领先多达29分的情况下，他在前两节依然出场了21分钟。文班亚马的替补卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 仅出场了4分钟，其中3分钟是在上半场。
马刺的其他三名替补内线则完全没有获得上场机会。
当被问及随着比赛的进行身体是否出现疲态时，这位22岁的年轻人表示：“是的，我想确实有点。”
“他今晚多打了几分钟，因为我们当时想一鼓作气拿下比赛，”约翰逊说道，“是的，考虑到（第五场）就在两天后，以及这场比赛的重要性，我们想赢下比赛并试图提前锁定胜局。”
但马刺没能做到。现在，他们在本赛季季后赛中第二次面临被淘汰的境地。上一次他们面临淘汰危机时——在与俄克拉荷马城的西部决赛第七场中——圣安东尼奥马刺最终赢得了胜利。
“我觉得甚至直到最后一声哨响，我们都坚信我们会赢，或者说我们本该赢下比赛，”NBA年度最佳第六人凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道，“我们都是普通人，这真的很痛。我们渴望胜利。我们离胜利如此之近，却又如此之远。我们将继续坚持我们的打法，展现我们的篮球风格，并在接下来的比赛中纠正我们可以纠正的问题。我相信，从1号到15号成员，无论谁踏上球场，我们都会去完成任务。”
在这场本可以轻松掌控的比赛中，马刺下半场低迷的表现只是让接下来的任务变得更加艰难。
“我们已经证明了自己能够克服这些困难，”文班亚马说道，“尽管我们以前从未经历过这种局面，但我坚信我们具备这样的特质，我们会从中汲取力量。这会让我们更加紧密地团结在一起。”
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Wembanyama, Spurs resolute after Game 4 collapse to Knicks
NEW YORK – Splayed on his rear with 41.7 seconds left in the opening quarter and the San Antonio Spurs ahead 37-20, Victor Wembanyama clapped excitedly, jabbing at his right temple with his right index finger.
Mitchell Robinson had just clubbed Wembanyama with an elbow to the kisser.
It seemed clear in that moment early in Game 4 on Wednesday night that Wembanyama and his teammates had burrowed into the heads of Robinson and the New York Knicks. Unfortunately for the Spurs, they failed to stay there – surrendering a 29-point lead to allow the Knicks to make the largest comeback in NBA Finals history – in a crushing 107-106 loss as they fell behind 3-1 in the series. OG Anunoby tipped in a Jalen Brunson miss on a 3-pointer in the final seconds to punctuate the comeback and put San Antonio on the brink of elimination heading into Saturday’s Game 5 at Frost Bank Center.
“What’s going through my mind right now?” Wembanyama said. “I think it’s going to go one of two ways: a bad one and a good one. The bad one would be giving up. The good one would be getting stronger through this, getting more together. I know this is what we’re going to do.”
The scene in the visitors’ locker room postgame at Madison Square Garden left questions, though. Many of the players, still wearing their uniforms, sat silent with every head down, most glued to cellphones. One of those devices hit the floor with a thud and slid under a whiteboard parked in the middle of the room, sending a Spurs staffer scrambling to retrieve it.
Throughout a regular-season and playoff run chock-full of lessons for the young, ascending Spurs, this one surely hurt the most.
“[It’s] at the top of the list just in terms of the circumstances and stakes of what we’re playing for,” coach Mitch Johnson said. “To put as much good work into that first half as we did, get the lead that we had and not finish the job is disappointing to say the least.”
With 13.1 seconds remaining and San Antonio clinging to a one-point lead, veteran point guard De’Aaron Fox sprinted to the rim for a layup that could have put the Spurs up by three points. As Fox scrambled toward the bucket, Anunoby closed fast, eventually blocking the attempted layup. The play opened the door for Anunoby to complete the comeback with the game-winning tip. But Fox might have been able to prevent that by holding the ball until the Knicks were forced to foul him.
“You have to score,” Fox said. “Try to get a layup, get up three [points], [and] force them to need a 3. OG made a good block.”
Before that, however, Wembayama missed a pair of free throws with 1:47 remaining and his team trailing 104-103.
The Spurs never expected to find themselves in that position in the first place. They reeled off 76 points over the first two quarters on the way to taking a 27-point lead into intermission, only to score 30 points in the second half on 8-of-39 shooting with 10 turnovers.
“We went away from everything we were doing,” rookie guard Dylan Harper said. “In the first half, a lot of tough shots went in. Really, that was because we were playing the right way. We got away from that in the second half because of the lead. We just can’t take our foot off the gas. It’s one thing for me to sit up here and say it. It’s another for us to go out there and do it.”
Devin Vassell and Harper combined to shoot 7-of-7 from deep over the first two quarters as San Antonio set a record for its most 3-pointers (14) in a half of an NBA Finals matchup. Four Spurs – Wembanyama, Vassell, Harper and Fox – scored in double figures by halftime, combining for 59 of the team’s 76 points.
In addition to opening the game on a 12-2 run, the Spurs found a way early to bait Karl-Anthony Towns into foul trouble. Just 62 seconds into the action, the center picked up his second foul on a play where Wembanyama was originally whistled for the infraction.
Johnson challenged the foul against Wembanyama, which occurred on a Towns drive, and the call was corrected to an offensive foul on Towns.
Robinson immediately subbed in for Towns.
San Antonio, meanwhile, knocked down 9-of-11 in the first frame, including 6-of-8 from 3-point range in taking a 21-point lead that New York whittled to 19 by the end of the quarter. That 19-point lead marked the largest after the first quarter of any NBA Finals game since 2016, when the Cleveland Cavaliers led the Golden State Warriors 31-11 after the first frame of Game 6.
The Spurs now own a point differential of plus-47 in the first quarter of this series, but that is meaningless if they can’t finish. San Antonio has owned double-digit leads in every game of this series but has been able to maintain one only once in Game 3.
“I don’t know about the emotions, but it was painful, of course,” Wembanyama said. “It just feels like we worked too hard and give up our leads. It just hurts.”
Wembanyama played 44 minutes in Game 3, and with the Spurs leading by as many as 29 points in the first half, he still played 21 minutes over the first two quarters. Wembanyama’s backup, Luke Kornet, played four minutes, three of those in the first half.
San Antonio’s other three backup bigs never stepped foot on the court.
The 22-year old said, “Yeah, I guess I did,” when asked whether he wore down as the game progressed.
“He had a few more minutes tonight because we were trying to put the game away,” Johnson said. “Yeah, with [Game 5] two days after this, what was at stake, we wanted to win the game and try to put it away.”
San Antonio wasn’t able to. Now, the Spurs find themselves facing elimination again for the second time this postseason. San Antonio emerged victorious the last time it faced elimination, in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals against Oklahoma City.
“I feel like even up to the last buzzer, we believed we were going to win or that we were supposed to win,” said NBA Sixth Man of the Year Keldon Johnson. “We’re all human. It hurts. We want to win. We’re so close, but so far. We’re going to continue what we do, bring our brand of basketball and correct the things we can correct going forward. I believe, one through 15, whoever steps on the court, we’re going out there to get the job done.”
The Spurs only made that more difficult with a dud of a second-half performance in a game they could have dominated.
“We’ve proven we can surpass these difficulties,” Wembanyama said. “Even though we haven’t been there before, I’m convinced we’re built that way and we’re going to use the better of this. It’s going to tighten us up.”
By Michael C. Wright, via ESPN