By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-06-11 14:00:33
2026年6月10日，星期三，在纽约麦迪逊广场花园进行的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) 在场上奔跑。尼克斯队以107-106击败马刺队，系列赛大比分3-1领先。
纽约——周三深夜，在麦迪逊广场花园那间气氛阴郁的客队更衣室里，最清晰可闻的声音，是近乎死寂的沉默。
洗澡拖鞋在地上拖行发出的孤零零的吱呀声。远处水龙头滴答、滴答、滴答的滴水声。偶尔还有低声嘟囔的、充满沮丧的脏话。
午夜零点三十分，就在纽约前锋OG·阿努诺比 (OG Anunoby) 击碎了马刺队的心、甚至可能摧毁了他们的斗志后不久，马刺前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 走到每一个还在用毛巾擦干身体的队友储物柜前，轻声送上同一句充满智慧的叮嘱：“相信。”
“如果没有信念，没有对彼此的信任，我们走不到今天，这一点现在也不会改变，”约翰逊说道，“如果这很容易，那每个人都能做到了。”
在NBA总决赛中面临1-3落后的绝境，信念或许是马刺仅剩的东西了。但这可能依然不够。
历史性的领先被蚕食、决胜阶段挥霍的数次良机，以及阿努诺比最后一秒的补篮绝杀，共同构成了这场令人心碎的第四战107-106的失利，这将被永远载入尼克斯的传奇史册，也成为马刺难以抹去的耻辱。
“我们已经被逼入绝境了，”马刺后卫迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 说道，“如果我们相信自己就是心目中的那支球队，那么现在就是证明的时候了。”
对于马刺而言，残酷的现实是，面对如此沉重的打击，他们可能再也无法缓过神来。
马刺后卫斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 谈到进入第五战的心态：“显然，这是一场艰难的失利。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。这依然是先赢四场晋级的赛制。米奇教练……” pic.twitter.com/jGqSLvWNUT
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) 2026年6月11日
周三本有机会扳平系列赛，马刺在半场结束前曾一度领先多达29分，却在下半场打出了极其糟糕的表现，将优势挥霍殆尽。最终，在比赛还剩2.1秒时，他们只能眼睁睁看着阿努诺比将杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 投失的球补进，送尼克斯拿到冠军点。
在这场史诗级崩盘之后，约翰逊没有否认显而易见的事实。换作平时，他早就用随身携带的巨型音箱播放音乐，打破麦迪逊广场花园更衣室的寂静了。
“我们都是普通人，”作为马刺队中效力时间最长的球员，约翰逊说道，“这真的很痛。”
马刺没能带着平局回到圣安东尼奥，而是将在周六于霜冻银行中心进行的第五战中面临背水一战。
与此同时，尼克斯则带着自1973年以来首个NBA总冠军的赛点重返德克萨斯，力求给对手致命一击。
“我们是一支韧性十足的球队，”在第四节屡屡上演关键拯救表现、全场砍下33分的阿努诺比说道，“我们经历了很多。我们在落后时曾多次逆转。”
事实上，马刺在系列赛至今的每一场比赛的第四节都曾取得过领先。然而，他们换来的却只有大比分1-3的落后。
得益于尼克斯再次展现出的永不言弃的精神，纽约距离建队80年来的第三座总冠军奖杯仅剩最后四个小节。
而完成这一壮举，他们上演了NBA总决赛历史上有记录以来的最大逆转。
自NBA于1997年开始记录详细的逐个回合数据以来，还没有任何一支球队能在落后超过24分的情况下逆转赢得总决赛。此前这一纪录由波士顿凯尔特人保持，他们在2008年克服了24分的落后击败了洛杉矶湖人。
半场结束前3分06秒，马刺凭借哈珀的上篮以71-42领先。半场结束时，他们依然以76-49领先，距离带着平局回到圣安东尼奥仅剩24分钟。
“在这场比赛中，你坐在那里会觉得，我们拥有这样的阵容配置，投篮命中率不错，打得也相当干净利落，”马刺主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道，此时马刺新闻发布厅外仿佛整个纽约市都在狂欢，嘈杂声不绝于耳，“但最后我们却没能完成收尾工作。”
对于马刺而言，局势起初是缓慢恶化，接着便突然彻底崩盘。
他们在上半场的手感有多滚烫，下半场就有多冰冷，中场休息后他们仅得到了30分。
“显然，我们在下半场失去了那种饥饿感，”马刺球星文班亚马说道。他本场比赛砍下24分、13个篮板和3次盖帽，但和队友们一样，他在下半场也隐身了。
马刺后卫迪伦·哈珀：“很震惊，但后面还有很多比赛要打。等这一切结束，我会去洗个澡，把这些负面情绪冲洗干净，然后开始准备第五战。” pic.twitter.com/XTuBBM3MrC
— Spurs Nation (@ Spurs_Nation) 2026年6月11日
全场砍下36分的尼克斯后卫布伦森在比赛还剩38.8秒时，凭借一记挑篮帮助纽约以105-104取得了本场比赛的首次领先。
在另一端，卡斯尔在拼抢进攻篮板时造成犯规，并两罚全中，在时间还剩30.3秒时帮助马刺以106-105反超。
随后发生的一系列回合，可能会让马刺在秋季训练营开始前都一直陷入“如果当时……”的懊悔中。在比赛还剩16.1秒、马刺领先1分时，达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 抢到了布伦森投篮不中后的长篮板。
福克斯并没有选择消耗时间并等待对方犯规，而是选择直插对手要害。
“当时想尝试上篮，把分差扩大到3分，”福克斯解释他当时的思路，“逼迫他们必须投三分。”
但阿努诺比有不同的想法。
他飞身而起，从身后封盖了福克斯的快攻上篮，而这仅仅是更伟大的英雄时刻的前奏。在最后的读秒阶段，尼克斯命悬一线，布伦森快速出手三分，未能命中。
阿努诺比斜刺里杀穿了马刺的防线，抢到了一个感觉更像是传球的篮板，顺势完成补篮，这一球也让他永远载入了纽约的史册。
“我不知道尼克斯队史上还有没有比这更伟大的回合了，”尼克斯主教练迈克·布朗 (Mike Brown) 说道。
当然，马刺根本没有预料到这一切。
没有预料到领先优势会被蚕食，没有预料到系列赛会陷入1-3的绝境，更没有预料到阿努诺比会在纽约的夜色中飞身而出，夺走他们的灵魂。
赛后被问及马刺是在什么时候注意到阿努诺比冲入禁区完成绝杀补篮时，卡斯尔的回答令人深思。
“我想我们当时谁也没注意到，”他说道。
如今，马刺回到了主场，他们的夺冠希望已命悬一线，整个赛季也走到了悬崖边缘。
如果说马刺现在还需要相信什么，那就是奇迹。
“尽管这很痛，但我们还在继续战斗，”凯尔登·约翰逊说道，“最重要的是信念还在。我们相信自己能够做到。无论如何，这一点都不会改变。”
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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One word sums up the Spurs’ approach to a do-or-die Game 5: ‘Believe.’
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) runs down 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 Knick defeated the Spurs 107-106, leading the series 3-1.
NEW YORK — In the gloomy postmortem of the visitor’s locker room at Madison Square Garden late Wednesday night, the most noticeable sound was that of near silence.
The lonesome squeak of shower shoes shuffling across the floor. The drip, drip, drip of a faraway faucet. The occasional muttered exasperated expletive.
Thirty minutes after midnight, and not long after New York forward O.G. Anunoby had broken his team’s heart and possibly its spirit, Spurs forward Keldon Johnson visited the locker of each player still toweling off and softly offered each the same single word of sage instruction: “Believe.”
“You don’t get here without belief, without faith in each other, and that’s not going to change now,” Johnson said. “If it was easy, everybody would do it.”
Staring down a 3-1 hole in the NBA Finals, belief might be all the Spurs have left. It is probably still not enough.
An historic blown lead, several opportunities squandered down the stretch and a last-second, game-winning tip-in by Anunoby added up to a gut-wrenching 107-106 Game 4 defeat that will forever live in Knicks lore and Spurs infamy.
“Back’s against the wall,” Spurs guard Dylan Harper said. “If we believe we are who we think we are, then it’s going to show.”
For the Spurs, the stark reality is there may be no coming back from this level of gut-punch.
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
With a chance to even the series Wednesday, the Spurs led by as many as 29 points in the first half, frittered away all of it with as poor of a second half as they could possibly play, and ultimately stood by helpless as Anunoby tapped in a Jalen Brunson misfire with 2.1 seconds left to move the Knicks one game away from a championship.
In the aftermath of epic collapse, Johnson, who on any other night would have giddily pierced the quiet in the MSG locker room with music blasting from the giant speaker he carries everywhere, did not deny the obvious.
“We’re all human,” said Johnson, the longest-tenured Spur. “It hurts.”
Instead of heading back to San Antonio with the series knotted, the Spurs face elimination in Game 5 on Saturday at the Frost Bank Center.
The Knicks, meanwhile, return to Texas on the brink of their first NBA championship since 1973, and looking for a knockout blow.
“We’re a resilient group,” said Anunoby, who scored 33 points and made game-saving play after game-saving play in the fourth quarter. “We’ve been through a lot. We’ve come back plenty of times when we’re behind.”
Indeed, the Spurs have led in the fourth quarter of every game of the series so far. All they have is a 3-1 series deficit to show for it.
Thanks to the Knicks’ latest display of never-say-die, New York stands four quarters away from capturing the third title in the club’s 80 years of existence.
All it took was the biggest recorded rally in NBA Finals history.
Since the NBA began keeping detailed play-by-play in 1997, no team had come back from more than 24 points down to win a Finals game. That is the deficit Boston overcame to beat the L.A. Lakers in 2008.
With 3:06 remaining before halftime, the Spurs went ahead 71-42 on a Harper layup. At half, they still led 76-49 and were 24 minutes away from bringing a tied series home to San Antonio.
“That’s a game where you sit there and you say you had the type of personnel that you had, you shot the ball decent, played a pretty clean game,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said over the din of what felt like all of New York City celebrating outside the Spurs’ interview room. “Then kind of didn’t finish the job.”
For the Spurs, the game unraveled slowly at first, and then all of a sudden.
As hot as they were in the first half, they went that cold in the second, managing only 30 points after intermission.
“We clearly weren’t the most hungry in the second half,” said Spurs star Victor Wembanyama, who finished with 24 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks but — like the rest of his team — faded after halftime.
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
Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, who ended with 36 points, gave New York its first lead of the game, 105-104, on a scoop shot with 38.8 seconds to go.
On the other end, Stephon Castle drew a foul on an offensive rebound and made a pair of foul shots to make it 106-105 Spurs with 30.3 ticks showing.
Then came a series of plays that might have the Spurs playing what-if until the start of fall training camp. With 16.1 seconds to go and the Spurs leading by one, De’Aaron Fox grabbed a loose rebound of a Brunson miss.
Instead of running clock and waiting to get fouled, Fox opted to go for the jugular.
“Try to get a layup, get up three,” Fox said, explaining his thought process. “Force them to need a three.”
Anunoby had other ideas.
He soared in to block Fox’s run-out layup try from behind, prelude for even greater heroics to come. With the Knicks down to their final gasp in the waning moments, Brunson took a quick 3-pointer and missed.
Anunoby came slashing through the Spurs’ defense to find a rebound that felt more like a pass, setting him up for a put-back basket and a place in New York immortality.
“I don’t know if there was a play bigger in the history in Knicks basketball,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said.
The Spurs, of course, saw none of this coming.
Not the blown lead. Not the 3-1 series hole. Certainly not Anunoby swooping in to snatch their soul in the New York night.
Asked afterwards at what point the Spurs clocked Anunoby crashing the paint for the game-winning putback, Castle’s answer was telling.
“I don’t think any of us did,” he said.
Now the Spurs return home with their championship hopes on life support, their season on the line.
If the Spurs need to believe in anything, it’s in miracles.
“As much as it hurts, we’re still playing,” Keldon Johnson said. “The main thing is the belief is there. We believe we can get it done. That’s not going to change regardless.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News