By Tim Bontemps, Brian Windhorst, 2026-06-12 19:06:00
周三晚上，纽约尼克斯队与圣安东尼奥马刺队之间那场令人难忘的NBA总决赛第四场对决，或许会让人有些难以置信：联盟其他球队的各项事务依然在紧锣密鼓地进行着。
尽管整个篮球界都在拭目以待，看尼克斯队能否在周六的第五场比赛（美东时间晚上8:30，ABC直播）中终结长达53年的冠军荒，但联盟的日程表仍在不可阻挡地向选秀和自由市场迈进。
在过去几天与联盟知情人士交流后，我们在此简要梳理一下总决赛目前的局势，以及目前在联盟中流传的其他热点话题：
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疯狂的总决赛接下来会发生什么？
扬尼斯与雄鹿恩怨剧集的最新进展
NBA教练席变动最新动态
萧华最快何时能解决假摔问题？
NBA总决赛第五场将迎来怎样的对决？
本系列赛至今已经历了四场令人窒息的决战——且每一次都伴随着圣安东尼奥马刺队在最后两分钟内领先优势的化为乌有——这届总决赛在各个方面都堪称完美。“每个晚上，你总能看到一些让你惊呼‘你刚才看到了吗？’的画面，”一位东部联盟的高管告诉ESPN。
但在马刺队因痛失总决赛纪录的29分领先优势而遭受沉重打击之后，显而易见的问题是，这支年轻的队伍在主场迎来生死攸关的第五场比赛时将如何应对。
“这将是对马刺队坚韧意志的真正考验，”一位西部联盟的球探表示，“他们已经展现出了韧性，并且在情感上非常成熟……他们证明了自己能够重整旗鼓。但那场比赛会成为压垮骆驼的最后一根稻草吗？”
在第四场比赛结束后与联盟知情人士的交流中，人们普遍关注马刺队的年轻后卫迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper)，以及他在接下来的系列赛中扮演更重要角色的可能性，尤其是在达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在比赛后期出现一些问题之后。
就像在常规赛中一样，哈珀在整个总决赛期间都是替补出场，系列赛至今场均贡献16.3分和6.8个篮板，其中包括在第四场比赛中出场32分钟，12投8中高效砍下21分。然而，在福克斯掌控球权的决胜阶段，哈珀在很大程度上被边缘化了。这导致其他球队的多位观察家建议，马刺队在未来的战术规划中应该让哈珀承担更多责任——一位西部高管甚至表示，马刺队应该将哈珀放入首发阵容，而这仅仅是他职业生涯的第七次首发。
“他是他们队中第二好的球员，”该高管说道，“他成长得如此之快，简直令人难以置信。”
尽管有几位消息人士表示，他们认为马刺队将赢得第五场比赛，并将系列赛带回麦迪逊广场花园这一宏大舞台进行第六场对决，但另一个需要关注的因素是维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的体能状况。在第四场比赛中出战44分钟且随着比赛进行显得愈发疲惫之后，接下来的比赛之间有两天的休息时间，这或许能为他提供足够的恢复时间，从而带领马刺队重回正轨。
扬尼斯与雄鹿的最新动态
距离NBA选秀还有不到两周的时间，联盟中除总决赛之外最大的新闻，莫过于扬尼斯·阿德托昆博 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) 去留悬念的持续发酵。这并非联盟近年来首次面对这一局面，因为每当交易谈判初具雏形时，雄鹿队最终都选择留住这位超级巨星前锋。
但这一次的感觉有所不同。雄鹿队联合老板吉米·哈斯拉姆 (Jimmy Haslam) 已经明确表示，要么在选秀大会前将阿德托昆博交易走，要么球队将继续围绕他建队，而后者则需要采取一套完全不同的运作方案。
但在总决赛期间与消息人士的交流中，密尔沃基似乎展现出了寻找交易方案的全新动力。而联盟的其他球队也都在静观其变。
“在看到扬尼斯的最终去向之前，其他所有人的业务似乎都处于停滞状态，”一位东部球探表示。
但交易能否达成并无绝对保证。在NBA的“土豪线”时代，在正常情况下交易像阿德托昆博这样身背高薪合同的超级巨星本就极具挑战性，而雄鹿队——其账面上的死工资将一直延续到本年代末，且几乎没有任何选秀资产可言——显然不处于正常情况。
所有这些都意味着，一个以球员为主的交易筹码包可能会更符合密尔沃基的胃口。这还没有考虑到选秀抽签规则已经发生巨大变化，且有可能在三年后再次调整的现实。
尽管如此，仍有两件事尚不明朗：密尔沃基在交易中究竟想要得到什么，以及阿德托昆博本人是否会施加影响，明确表态自己想去哪里，并声称自己只会在交易后与该球队续约。据消息人士透露，一直对阿德托昆博保持兴趣的迈阿密热火队，很可能会成为这种局面的受益者。
但在过去的几年里，阿德托昆博一直拒绝公开宣布自己想要被交易，更不用说透露任何心仪的目的地了。在这最新、也可能是最后一章的故事中，这一态度似乎不太可能发生改变。
热火队拥有颇具吸引力的球员和选秀权筹码，其中包括2025年全明星球员、威斯康星州本土球星泰勒·希罗 (Tyler Herro)，以及凯尔·韦尔 (Kel’el Ware)、小海梅·哈克斯 (Jaime Jaquez Jr.) 和卡斯帕拉斯·雅库齐奥尼斯 (Kasparas Jakucionis) 等年轻球员。
但如果像克利夫兰骑士队或奥兰多魔术队这样的球队全力参与竞价，一旦他们将骑士队的埃文·莫布里 (Evan Mobley) 或魔术队的保罗·班凯罗 (Paolo Banchero) 等球员纳入交易，他们很可能会开出超越迈阿密的报价。
NBA教练席变动持续上演
目前仍有三支球队——芝加哥公牛队、波特兰开拓者队和达拉斯独行侠队——的主教练席位处于空缺状态。
芝加哥公牛队上个月聘请了前亚特兰大老鹰队高管布赖森·格雷厄姆 (Bryson Graham) 担任其新的篮球运营负责人，目前他们似乎最接近敲定人选。他们已经面试了明尼苏达森林狼队助理教练迈卡·诺里 (Micah Nori)、开拓者队临时主教练蒂亚戈·斯普利特 (Tiago Splitter)、老鹰队助理教练莱恩·施密特 (Ryan Schmidt) 以及现任公牛队助理教练小韦斯·昂塞尔德 (Wes Unseld Jr.)。
鉴于公牛队在今年的选秀中手握4号签和15号签，外界普遍预计，无论谁接任主教练一职，都将优先培养这些新秀、二年级前锋马塔斯·布泽利斯 (Matas Buzelis) 以及现任首发控卫乔希·吉迪 (Josh Giddey)——吉迪即将迎来其四年1亿美元合同的第二个赛季。
与此同时，波特兰开拓者队的选帅工作预计在未来几天内仍将处于停滞状态。新老板汤姆·邓顿 (Tom Dundon) 自常规赛结束正式收购球队以来已经掀起了不小的波澜，目前他正专注于卡罗莱纳飓风队对2026年斯坦利杯的争夺。开拓者队在选帅方向上将何去何从，以及球队愿意为此支付多少薪水，目前仍有待观察。
在达拉斯独行侠队与贾森·基德 (Jason Kidd) 分道扬镳之后，有传言称杜克大学的乔恩·谢尔 (Jon Scheyer) 和密歇根大学的达斯蒂·梅 (Dusty May) 都与这一空缺职位联系在了一起。但自上个月马赛·乌杰里 (Masai Ujiri) 被聘为篮球运营负责人以来，联盟内部普遍认为，独行侠队最有可能的结果是提拔一位NBA中崭露头角的助理教练。
这正是乌杰里在多伦多猛龙队期间另外两次聘请教练时的做法：2018年，他用尼克·纳斯 (Nick Nurse) 替代了德韦恩·凯西 (Dwane Casey)；2023年，他又用达尔科·拉亚科维奇 (Darko Rajakovic) 替代了纳斯。
联盟的下一个任务？解决假摔问题
在本届季后赛期间，关于裁判判罚的讨论不绝于耳，尤其是在过去两轮涉及圣安东尼奥马刺队的系列赛中：他们击败俄克拉荷马城雷霆队的西部决赛，以及目前与尼克斯队的NBA总决赛。
并且，在周一晚上第三场比赛前接受ABC采访时，NBA总裁亚当·萧华 (Adam Silver) 也加入了这一讨论，他表示联盟的竞赛委员会已将假摔问题列入下个月在拉斯维加斯举行夏季联赛期间的会议议程。
裁判在整个常规赛期间仅判罚了四次假摔技术犯规，而在季后赛期间这一数字为零。
“当我们制定假摔规则时，当时存在着极其恶劣的假摔行为，”萧华表示，“球员们被教导在确实存在犯规时去‘放大’身体接触，但他们现在是在试图‘骗取’判罚。……我们将在两天内观看超过1000个回合的录像，看看是否应该将判罚界限调整到不同的位置。”
竞赛委员会中的球员代表——该委员会还包括来自联盟各地的教练和高管——此前曾辩称，在发生身体接触后顺势倒地（有时这会被解读为假摔）对于避免受伤至关重要。（前常规赛MVP乔尔·恩比德 (Joel Embiid) 多年来一直采用这一策略。）
然而，试图说服裁判做出判罚，或夸大接触以诱使裁判升级为恶意犯规的行为已经急剧增加。社交媒体更是起到了推波助澜的作用，各方球迷在网络上争相扮演“受害者”角色。所有这些因素都促使萧华和NBA决定着手解决假摔问题。而且，从联盟此前推行新的反摆烂措施的效率来看，解决方案出台的速度可能会比球迷们想象的还要快。
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NBA Finals 2026: Intel on Knicks-Spurs, Giannis and a flopping fix
Wednesday night’s unforgettable Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs might make it a bit difficult to remember that the rest of the league’s business continues unabated.
But while the basketball world waits to see whether the Knicks can end their 53-year championship drought Saturday in Game 5 (8:30 p.m. ET, ABC), the league calendar continues to barrel toward the draft and free agency.
After speaking with league insiders over the past few days, here’s a quick look at where things stand in the championship round, as well as other topics floating around the league at the moment:
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What’s next in these wild Finals?
Latest on the Giannis-Bucks saga
NBA coaching carousel updates
How soon could Silver fix flopping?
What lies ahead in Game 5 of the NBA Finals?
With four heart-stopping finishes in this series – all featuring San Antonio’s lead evaporating in the final two minutes – these Finals have delivered in every way. “Every single night, there’s been something you’ve seen that’s made you go, ‘Did you just see that?’” an Eastern Conference executive told ESPN.
But after the absolute gut punch the Spurs took by blowing a Finals-record 29-point lead, the obvious question is how this young team responds in a must-win Game 5 at home.
“This is going to be a real test of the Spurs’ resolve,” a Western Conference scout said. “They’ve shown they’ve got resilience, and they have a lot of emotional maturity … they’ve shown they can get off the mat. But was that game the final straw?”
When talking with league insiders in the aftermath of Game 4, there was an emphasis on Spurs rookie guard Dylan Harper, and the potential for him to have greater involvement in the series moving forward, particularly after some late-game issues for De’Aaron Fox.
Like throughout the regular season, Harper has come off the bench throughout the Finals, averaging 16.3 points and 6.8 rebounds in the series thus far, including 21 points on 8-for-12 shooting in 32 minutes in Game 4. But Harper was largely uninvolved down the stretch as Fox dominated the ball. That led multiple observers from other teams to suggest Harper as a bigger part of San Antonio’s game plan going forward – with one West executive saying the Spurs should slide Harper into the starting lineup for just the seventh time as a pro.
“He’s their second-best player,” the executive said. “It’s incredible how good he’s become so quickly.”
And while several sources said they think the Spurs will win Game 5 and send the series back to the spectacle of Madison Square Garden for Game 6, the other thing to monitor is Victor Wembanyama’s energy levels. After playing 44 minutes in Game 4 and looking more exhausted as the game wore on, the two days between games moving forward could provide him with enough time to recover to propel San Antonio back into the series.
Latest on Giannis and the Bucks
With less than two weeks until the NBA draft, the biggest non-Finals story in the league is the ongoing suspense of the Giannis Antetokounmpo saga. This isn’t the league’s first time down this road in recent years, as the Bucks have ultimately decided to keep their superstar forward each time any trade negotiations materialized.
This time feels different. Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam has plainly said that either Antetokounmpo will be moved by the draft or the franchise will keep building around him, which would require a different set of moves.
But throughout conversations with sources during the Finals, it appears Milwaukee has a new level of motivation to find a deal. And the rest of the league is waiting to see what will happen.
“It seems like everyone else’s business is on hold until we see what happens with Giannis,” an East scout said.
But there’s no guarantee a trade will happen. Trading a superstar like Antetokounmpo on a high-priced contract is a challenging endeavor in the NBA’s apron era under normal circumstances, and the Bucks – with dead money on their books through the end of the decade and with little to speak of in terms of draft assets – are not in normal circumstances.
All of that could mean a player-centric package could be of more interest to Milwaukee. And that’s before factoring in the reality of the draft lottery rules having been dramatically changed and potentially on tap to change again in three years.
Still, two things remain unclear: what, exactly, Milwaukee is looking for in a deal, and whether Antetokounmpo himself will put a thumb on the scale and declare where he wants to go, and say he’ll only extend in that place in a deal. The Miami Heat, who sources say continue to have interest in Antetokounmpo, would likely be the team to benefit from that scenario.
But over the past few years, Antetokounmpo has refused to publicly declare he wants to be traded, let alone to any preferred destinations. It seems unlikely that will change in this latest and perhaps final chapter.
The Heat have an interesting package of players and picks to offer, including 2025 All-Star and Wisconsin native Tyler Herro, along with young players such as Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Kasparas Jakucionis.
But if teams such as the Cleveland Cavaliers or Orlando Magic were to fully get involved in the bidding, it’s likely they could exceed a potential Miami offer if players like the Cavs’ Evan Mobley or Magic’s Paolo Banchero are included.
NBA coaching carousel continues to spin
Three teams – the Chicago Bulls, Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks – remain without head coaches.
Chicago, which last month hired former Atlanta Hawks executive Bryson Graham as its new head of basketball operations, appears to be the closest to landing on a hire, having interviewed Minnesota Timberwolves assistant coach Micah Nori, Trail Blazers interim head coach Tiago Splitter, Hawks assistant coach Ryan Schmidt and current Bulls assistant coach Wes Unseld Jr.
With the Bulls sitting with the No. 4 and No. 15 picks in this year’s draft, the expectation is whoever gets the coaching job will prioritize developing those rookies, sophomore forward Matas Buzelis and incumbent starting point guard Josh Giddey, who is entering the second season of a four-year, $100 million deal.
Portland’s search, meanwhile, is expected to remain on hold for at least the next few days. New owner Tom Dundon, who has already made waves since officially purchasing the team at the end of the regular season, is focused on the Carolina Hurricanes’ pursuit of the 2026 Stanley Cup. Which direction the Blazers go in in their coaching search – and how much money the franchise is willing to pay for one – remains to be seen.
In the wake of Dallas moving on from Jason Kidd, there have been rumblings of both Duke’s Jon Scheyer and Michigan’s Dusty May being linked to the vacancy. But ever since Masai Ujiri was hired to run basketball operations last month, the belief around the league is that the most likely outcome for Dallas is elevating one of the NBA’s rising assistants.
That’s what Ujiri did the other two times he hired a coach, both with the Toronto Raptors: In 2018, he replaced Dwane Casey with Nick Nurse. In 2023, he replaced Nurse with Darko Rajakovic.
The league’s next task? A fix for flopping
There’s been plenty of discussion about the officiating during these playoffs, particularly during each of the past two rounds involving the San Antonio Spurs: their conference finals triumph against the Oklahoma City Thunder and now the NBA Finals against the Knicks.
And, during an appearance on ABC before Game 3 on Monday night, NBA commissioner Adam Silver added to the chatter, saying the league’s competition committee has placed flopping on the agenda for when it meets during next month’s summer league in Las Vegas.
Officials handed out four flopping technicals across the entire regular season and zero during the playoffs.
“When we put the flopping rule in place, there was egregious flopping,” Silver said. “Players are taught to sell the calls where there is a foul, but they’re trying to draw the call. … We will watch over 1,000 plays over two days and see if we should set that line in a different place.”
Players on the competition committee – the group also includes coaches and executives from across the league – have previously argued that falling down after taking contact, which can be construed at times as flopping, is important in terms of avoiding injury. (Former MVP Joel Embiid has employed the tactic for years.)
However, attempts to persuade referees to make calls or to sell the need to upgrade to a flagrant foul have skyrocketed. None of this is helped by social media, where fans on all sides compete for the title of most aggrieved team. All of that factors into Silver and the NBA’s decision to address flopping. And, judging by the league’s pace when implementing new anti-tanking measures, a solution might be closer than fans think.
By Tim Bontemps, Brian Windhorst, via ESPN