By Mike Finger | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-06-11 03:44:13
2026年6月10日，星期三，在纽约麦迪逊广场花园举行的NBA总决赛第四场第四节中，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) (1) 看着球场。尼克斯队以107-106击败马刺队，在大比分上以3-1领先。
纽约——达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 肯定知道自己身后有什么，就在他正后方：
一支顽强纠缠、不肯退让的球队。
迅速逼近的毁灭性心碎，以及随之而来的灼人悔恨。
还有高高跃起、迅速逼近的OG·阿努诺比 (OG Anunoby)。
“我只是觉得我能跑赢他们，”福克斯说道。
但他没能做到。马刺也没能做到。很难想象他们将如何挺过这一关。
周三进行的总决赛第四场，绝非那种输家可以耸耸肩、拍拍灰尘就继续前行的比赛。当马刺因葬送29分领先而滋生了新一代的心魔，当尼克斯抹平分差彻底点燃麦迪逊广场花园时，形势已经明朗：最终功亏一篑的那一方，注定要丢掉一部分灵魂。
而在经历了一场107-106的沉重打击、导致大比分1-3落后之后，就纯粹的痛苦而言，马刺队史上或许只有当年雷·阿伦 (Ray Allen) 的那记三分球能与之相提并论了。
当然，马刺依然有机会重新振作。
迟早的事。
马刺后卫斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 谈到迎接第五场的心理状态：“这显然是一场艰难的失利。我们需要一些时间来走出来。但显然，我们依然信任彼此，并有信心赢下下一场比赛。这依然是先赢四场的系列赛。米奇教练……” pic.twitter.com/jGqSLvWNUT
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) 2026年6月11日
“我们需要一些时间，”后卫卡斯尔说道。
他们需要的可能不止是一会儿。为了完成NBA总决赛历史上最大规模的逆转，尼克斯用了27分钟的比赛时间——从迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 的上篮帮助马刺在第二节取得71-42的领先，到杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 的抛投让纽约在比赛还剩1分22秒时以105-104反超。
在这两记进球之间，马刺在外线出手了太多妥协的三分球，而且给文班亚马的休息时间可能太少了。文班亚马在近44分钟的出场时间里砍下24分，但在决胜阶段显露疲态。当被问及在第四节（9投2中并在最后关头罚丢了两个关键罚球）是否精疲力竭时，他回答道：“是的，我想确实是这样。”
但即便他们的当家球星体能撞墙，即便狂热的喧嚣震动着这座世界上最著名体育馆的墙壁——大概也震动了它下方的火车站——马刺依然没有被彻底击败。
如果他们能想办法守住胜利，崩溃的就会是尼克斯，总决赛大比分也将被扳平，而马刺将在接下来的赛程中重新夺回主场优势。
这一切差一点就实现了。在卡斯尔的两记罚球帮助马刺取得1分领先之后，布伦森突破抛投不中。篮板球被大力拨向球场的另一端，福克斯在比赛还剩11秒时在罚球线附近追到了球。
如果他当时护住球，尼克斯将不得不对他犯规，送他上罚球线，而罚球本可以让马刺领先3分。
然而，在尼克斯球员的穷追不舍下，福克斯尝试上篮，结果阿努诺比飞身赶到，将球钉在篮板上。尼克斯抢下篮板，得以布置最后一攻。
“OG完成了一次漂亮的盖帽，”福克斯说道。
令人难以置信的是，这还不是跃起的阿努诺比在最后10秒内对马刺做出的最残忍的事。在尼克斯随后的进攻回合中，布伦森在文班亚马和福克斯的双人包夹下中距离跳投偏出。
这意味着没有人去卡位防守发界外球的人，而那个人恰好是阿努诺比。当球砸筐弹出时，这位身高6英尺7英寸的尼克斯前锋在卡斯尔和哈珀之间高高跃起，伸出长长的右臂，在比赛还剩2.1秒时将球补进篮筐。
与2013年总决赛第六场阿伦为迈阿密投中底角三分时不同，阿努诺比进球时，圣安东尼奥距离总冠军并不是仅有数秒之遥。但与当年相同的是，马刺现在必须立刻调整心态，去打一场生死战。
十三年前，久经沙场的未来名人堂成员蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan)、托尼·帕克 (Tony Parker) 和马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginobili)（吉诺比利后来曾表示，第六场的失利“在精神上摧毁了他”）没能完成这项任务。热火在第七场终结了他们。直到下一个赛季，马刺才凭借“行云流水”的团队篮球完成复仇。
马刺后卫哈珀：“很震惊，但后面还有很多比赛要打。结束之后，我要去洗个澡，把这些负面情绪冲掉，然后去为第五场做准备。” pic.twitter.com/XTuBBM3MrC
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) 2026年6月11日
现在，要想在总决赛中胜出，文班亚马和他身边的年轻人们不仅需要做出当年邓肯那支2013年的球队没能做出的即时回应。他们还需要连续做出三次这样的回应。连续三次。
这看起来确实有些强人所难，即便这支球队在总决赛至今的全部四场比赛中，都在最后两分钟里保持过领先。这看起来确实有些强人所难，即便这是一群一次又一次证明了常规预期并不适用于他们的年轻人。
这依然显得有些奢求，尽管正如文班亚马所说：“事情会朝两个方向之一发展——要么变坏，要么变好。”
他肯定知道概率说明了什么。但愿上帝能帮帮他。
他觉得自己能跑赢它们。
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After a Finals gut punch for the ages, how can Spurs get over this?
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) looks down toward the court during the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden in New York, Wednesday, June 10, 2026. The Knicks defeated the Spurs 107-106, leading the series 3-1.
NEW YORK — De’Aaron Fox had to know what was back there, right behind him:
A stubborn team that wouldn’t go away.
The swift approach of crushing heartbreak, accompanied by searing regret.
And OG Anunoby, soaring high while closing fast.
“I just thought I’d be able to outrun ’em,” Fox said.
But he could not. The Spurs could not. And it’s hard to imagine how they’ll get over this.
Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday was not the type of fight in which the loser shrugs his shoulders, dusts himself off and moves on. Once the Spurs discovered a new generation of demons by blowing a 29-point lead, and once the Knicks awakened Madison Square Garden by making that lead disappear, it became clear that whichever side that fell short in the end was going to forfeit a piece of its soul.
And after a 107-106 gut punch that put them in a 3-1 series hole and, in terms of sheer pain, might be rivaled in franchise history only by a certain Ray Allen 3-pointer?
Sure, there’s still a chance the Spurs will bounce back.
Eventually.
Spurs guard Stephon Castle on the mindset entering Game 5: “It’s a tough loss, obviously. It’s going to take us a minute to get over it. But obviously we still have belief in each other and confidence that we’re going to win the next game. It’s still first to four. Coach Mitch… pic.twitter.com/jGqSLvWNUT
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) June 11, 2026
“It’s going to take us a minute,” guard Stephon Castle said.
They might need more than one. To mount the biggest rally in NBA Finals history, the Knicks required 27 game minutes, from the Dylan Harper layup that gave the Spurs a 71-42 second-quarter lead to the Jalen Brunson floater that put New York ahead 105-104 with 1:22 to play.
In between those baskets, the Spurs settled for far too many 3-pointers, and probably got too little rest for Victor Wembanyama, who scored 24 points in almost 44 minutes but faded down the stretch. When asked if he wore down during a fourth quarter in which he shot 2-of-9 and missed two key free throws late, he said, “Yeah, I guess I did.”
But even with their best player hitting a wall, and even with pandemonium shaking the walls of the most famous arena in the world — and presumably the train station below it, too — the Spurs weren’t beaten yet.
If they’d found a way to hold on, the Knicks would have been emotionally crushed, and the Finals would have been even, and the Spurs would have had home-court advantage the rest of the way.
All of that almost happened. After two Castle free throws gave the Spurs a one-point lead, Brunson missed a driving floater. The rebound was deflected hard toward the other end of the court, and Fox chased it down near the free throw line with 11 seconds left.
Had he held onto the ball, the Knicks would have been forced to foul him, sending him to the line for free throws that could have put the Spurs up by three.
Instead, with the Knicks giving chase, Fox attempted a layup, which Anunoby flew in to swat off the glass. The Knicks grabbed the rebound, and were able to set up for one last shot.
“OG made a good block,” Fox said.
Incredibly, it wouldn’t be the cruelest thing that a leaping Anunoby did to the Spurs in the last 10 seconds. On the Knicks’ subsequent possession, Brunson misfired on a jumper over Wembanyama and Fox, who’d double-teamed him.
That meant nobody was boxing out the inbounder, who happened to be Anunoby. And when the ball clanged off the rim, the 6-foot-7 Knicks forward levitated right between Castle and Harper, extended his long right arm, and tipped the ball into the rim with 2.1 seconds left.
Unlike when Allen hit his baseline jumper for Miami in Game 6 the 2013 Finals, Anunoby’s shot didn’t come with San Antonio mere seconds away from a championship. But like back then, the Spurs now have to turn around and play an elimination game.
Fourteen years ago, playoff-hardened future Hall of Famers Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili, who would say later that the Game 6 loss “killed (him) mentally,” weren’t up to that task. The Heat finished them off in Game 7. It wasn’t until the next season that the Spurs came back with a “beautiful game” vengeance.
Spurs guard Dylan Harper: “Shock, but there’s a whole lot more basketball to be played. After this is over, I’m going to take a shower, wash it off, and go get ready for Game 5.” pic.twitter.com/XTuBBM3MrC
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) June 11, 2026
Now, to prevail in these Finals, Wembanyama and the kids around him don’t just need to deliver one immediate response that Duncan’s 2013 team couldn’t. They need to deliver three of them. In a row.
That sure seems like too much to ask, even of a team that has held a lead in the last two minutes of all four games in these Finals. It seems like too much to ask, even for a group of youngsters who’ve proven over and over again that typical expectations don’t apply to them.
It still seems like too much to ask, even though, as Wembanyama put it, “It’s going to go one of two ways — a bad one and a good one.”
He has to know what the odds say. But heaven help him.
He thinks he can outrun ’em.
By Mike Finger, via San Antonio Express-News