By Marc Duvoisin, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-06-16 17:24:29
在一轮竞争激烈的NBA总决赛期间，纽约尼克斯队的球迷整理了一份关于维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 所谓“肮脏行径”的卷宗。
当这位马刺球星在第三场比赛的第一节卡位争夺中，将尼克斯后卫杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 推倒在地却不知为何逃过了犯规吹罚时，他们发出了愤怒的嘘声。而当文班在第四场比赛第三节因肘击卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 的下巴而被判一级恶意犯规时，他们则带着正义得到伸张的满足感欢呼雀跃。
即使在赢球之后，尼克斯球迷依然对文班亚马挑刺——不是因为他在决定性的第五场比赛中的表现，而是因为他赛后的举动。
这位身高7英尺4英寸的法国人沮丧地走下球场……没有与胜利者握手。
尼克斯球迷、有线电视评论员以及一些现役和前NBA球员的反应表明，文班亚马即便没有违反硬性规定，也违背了一项神圣的准则。在体育播客和社交媒体上，人们达成了一种共识，即文班的冷漠态度暴露了他缺乏风度和成熟度，他未能履行落败球员在那种情况下道义上该做的事情。
“哇，他们竟然没有握手……这可不太好，”金州勇士队大前锋德雷蒙德·格林 (Draymond Green) 在 Threads 上写道。
在个人播客中发言时，这位四届NBA总冠军得主更进一步，指出通过逃避这桩被视为义务的握手，文班让尼克斯对马刺建立起了永久的心理优势。
“直视那个击败你的人的眼睛，”格林说，“如果你离开球场，不敢直视我的脸，而我刚刚击败了你，那我其实就知道，我永远在心理上拿捏住你了。”
话虽说得很重，但这并不能反映胜利者与失败者互动的真实情况。赛后握手固然是展现体育精神的极佳方式，但若声称这在职业体育中是必不可少的规矩，则经不起推敲。
“没想过要当朋友”
在国家冰球联盟（NHL）斯坦利杯总决赛结束的终场哨声响起后，获胜和落败的球队会在冰面中央排队握手，这一传统可以追溯到20世纪20年代。但在职业棒球大联盟（MLB）世界大赛的最后一次出局后，却完全没有这样的仪式。获胜的球队在投手丘上疯狂庆祝，而失败者则默默离场。
在NBA，没有既定的剧本，也没有官方的规定。有些球员会主动寻找对手拥抱和握手，有些则不会。国家美式橄榄球联盟（NFL）的超级碗赛后也是如此。
这就是为什么在文班亚马的迅速离场招致谴责后，一些NBA知名人士站出来为他辩护。持不同意见者认为，仪式性的握手虽然在青少年体育中能起到塑造性格的作用，但与职业体育的激烈竞争以及总决赛非赢即输的残酷本质并不相容。
罗伯特·霍里 (Robert Horry) 是NBA历史上最伟大的关键球射手之一，曾效力于七支夺冠球队，其中包括2005年和2007年的马刺队。委婉地说，他绝不是赛后握手的拥趸，而且他认为对文班亚马的批评既愚蠢又带有选择性。
霍里在由运动员主持的体育播客 《Road Trippin’》 中表示，在他横跨1992年至2008年的职业生涯中，输球的球队并不会被要求去向赢家示好。
“我们根本不在乎。我们刚输了比赛，不想和你说话……我可不想和刚刚把我揍扁的人做朋友，”他说。
事实上，无需费力寻找，就能发现许多NBA巨星在赛后拒绝客套的例子。洛杉矶湖人队的勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James)——联盟历史得分王兼四届NBA总冠军得主——就是个“惯犯”。
2023年，在对阵孟菲斯灰熊队的西部季后赛系列赛第六场比赛中，詹姆斯在比赛还剩14秒时就提前离场，直接走向湖人队的更衣室。而这场比赛湖人队以125-85大胜，锁定了系列赛的胜利。
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两年前，当湖人队在季后赛首轮输给菲尼克斯太阳队时，詹姆斯也做了同样的事。“这不是良好的体育精神，”ESPN分析师史蒂芬·A·史密斯 (Stephen A. Smith)当时说道。
2009年，年轻得多的詹姆斯在球场上愤然离去，当时他效力的克利夫兰骑士队在东部决赛中输给了奥兰多魔术队。
那么，为什么对文班亚马的匆忙离去如此大惊小怪呢？
这正是前NBA球员兼大学明星、现ESPN分析师杰·威廉姆斯 (Jay Williams) 想要知道的。“握手是你在少棒联盟或者青年队时才做的事，”他在 ESPN 的《First Take》节目中说道，“我不认为 NBA 球员或职业运动员必须握手。”
就文班亚马而言，在第五场比赛后的新闻发布会上，他表现得既富有哲理又充满自我批评。他没有提及握手的问题，而在威廉姆斯看来，他没有什么需要道歉的。
“握对手的手并不意味着你‘尊重’他们，”威廉姆斯在 X 上写道，“这只是一种形式……是给四年级小孩子准备的。这是职业体育，我们必须停止纠结于这些从未存在过的规矩。”
“我很生气”
NBA历史上最著名的“无视”事件之一发生在1991年，当时两届卫冕冠军底特律活塞队在东部决赛即将被势头正盛的芝加芝公牛队横扫（0-4）时，直接走下了球场。由于两队之间长达数年、充满恩怨且经常伴随激烈身体对抗的宿敌关系，这一事件引起了特别的关注。
活塞队球星伊赛亚·托马斯 (Isiah Thomas) 和比尔·兰比尔 (Bill Laimbeer) 带领队友在比赛时间还剩7.9秒时走下球场。他们走过公牛队的替补席，甚至没有点头示意，更不用说祝贺性的握手了。（不过，活塞队球员乔·杜马斯 (Joe Dumars)、约翰·塞利 (John Salley) 以及主教练查克·戴利 (Chuck Daly) 确实留在场上与公牛队握手致意。）
那些提前退场的活塞球员为自己辩护说，他们所做的正是波士顿凯尔特人队三年前对他们做过的事——当时底特律在1988年东部决赛中击败了波士顿。凯尔特人队当时表示，他们被告知在终场哨响前撤离，因为庞蒂亚克银色穹顶体育馆的主场观众即将冲入球场庆祝，而安保人员希望确保客队在走向更衣室的长长通道中的安全。
就像这些宿敌恩怨本身一样，这些争论也永远不会真正结束。
这就是为什么霍里的观点听起来如此合情合理。
“如果他们不握手，我觉得无所谓，”这位已退役的NBA传奇球星在谈到当今的球员时说道，“如果他们握手，我也觉得行。但换作是我，（输球后）我是绝对不会握手的。我很生气。”
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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Is it a big deal that Wemby didn’t shake hands with Knicks?
During a hard-fought NBA Finals series, New York Knicks fans compiled a dossier of alleged dirty deeds by Victor Wembanyama.
They howled when the Spurs star pushed Knicks guard Jalen Brunson to the floor during a struggle for position in the first quarter of Game 3 and somehow avoided being called for a foul. They cheered with righteous satisfaction when Wemby was assessed a flagrant foul for elbowing Karl-Anthony Towns in the chin in the third quarter of Game 4.
Even in victory, Knicks fans found fault with Wembanyama — not for anything he did during the deciding Game 5 but for what he did afterward.
The 7-foot-4 Frenchman walked dejectedly off the court … without shaking hands with the victors.
The response from Knicks fans, cable TV pundits, and some current and former NBA players suggested Wembanyama had violated a hallowed norm, if not a hard-and-fast rule. On sports podcasts and social media, a consensus formed that Wemby’s cold shoulder betrayed a lack of class and maturity, and that he had failed to do what defeated players are honor-bound to do in that situation.
“Wow they didn’t shake their hands … that’s not good,” Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green wrote on Threads.
Speaking on his personal podcast, the four-time NBA champion went further, suggesting that by dodging the supposedly obligatory handshake, Wemby had given the Knicks a permanent psychological edge over the Spurs.
“Look your killer in the face,” Green said. “If you leave the court and you don’t look me in my face and I just beat you, I actually know that I own you forever.”
Strong rhetoric. But it doesn’t reflect the reality of how victors and vanquished interact. Post-game handshakes might be a great way to model sportsmanship, but claims that they are de riguer in professional sports don’t stand up to scrutiny.
‘Not trying to be friends’
After the final horn sounds to end the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup championship, winning and losing teams line up at center ice to shake hands, a tradition that dates to the 1920s. But no such thing happens after the final out of Major League Baseball’s World Series. The winning team celebrates wildly on the pitcher’s mound; the losers walk off in silence.
In the NBA, there is no script, no official policy. Some players seek out rivals for hugs and handshakes. Others don’t. It’s the same after the NFL’s Super Bowl.
That’s why a few NBA notables rose to Wembanyama’s defense after his speedy exit drew condemnation. The dissenters say ritual handshakes, while character-building in youth sports, are not compatible with the intense competitiveness of pro sports and the all-or-nothing nature of a championship series.
Robert Horry, one of the greatest clutch shooters in NBA history, played on seven title-winning teams, including the 2005 and 2007 Spurs. He’s no fan of after-action handshakes, to put it mildly, and he thinks the criticism of Wembanyama is both silly and selective.
During his career, which spanned 1992 to 2008, losing teams were not expected to make nice with the winners, Horry said on Road Trippin’, an athlete-hosted sports podcast.
“We didn’t care. We just lost. We don’t want to talk to you … I’m not trying to be friends with someone who just kicked my ass,” he said.
It doesn’t take much digging to find examples of NBA luminaries blowing off post-game pleasantries. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers, the league’s all-time leading scorer and a four-time NBA champion, is a serial offender.
In 2023, James left Game 6 of a Western Conference playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies and walked straight to the Lakers’ locker room, with 14 seconds still on the clock. And this was a game the Lakers won, 125-85, clinching the series.
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James did the same thing two years earlier when the Lakers lost a first-round playoff series to the Phoenix Suns. “It’s not good sportsmanship,” ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith said at the time.
In 2009, a much younger James stormed off the court after his Cleveland Cavaliers lost the Eastern Conference Finals to the Orlando Magic.
So why the fuss over Wembanyama’s brusque departure?
That’s what ESPN analyst Jay Williams, a former NBA player and college star, wanted to know. “Shaking hands is what you do when you’re in the Little Leagues, when you’re in jayvee,” he said on ESPN’s First Take. “I don’t believe that NBA players or professional athletes have to shake hands.”
For his part, Wembanyama was by turns philosophical and self-critical during a post-Game 5 news conference. He did not address the handshake question, and in Williams’ view, he had nothing to apologize for.
“Shaking your opponent’s hand doesn’t mean you ‘respect’ them,” Williams wrote on X. “It’s a formality … and it’s meant for 4th grade kids. This is professional sports. We have to stop with these rules that have never existed.”
‘I’m mad’
One of the most famous snubs in NBA history came in 1991, when the two-time defending champion Detroit Pistons walked off the court just as the ascendant Chicago Bulls were about to pull off a four-game sweep of the Eastern Conference Finals. The incident drew special attention because of the years-long, bitter and often physical rivalry between the two teams.
Piston stars Isiah Thomas and Bill Laimbeer led their teammates off the court with time remaining on the clock — 7.9 seconds, to be precise. They walked past the Bulls’ bench without a nod of acknowledgement, much less a congratulatory handshake. (Pistons players Joe Dumars and John Salley and coach Chuck Daly did stay on the court to shake hands with the Bulls.)
In their own defense, the Pistons who walked off said they were doing exactly what the Boston Celtics did to them three years earlier, when Detroit defeated Boston in the 1988 Eastern Conference Finals. The Celtics said they were told to decamp before the final buzzer because the home crowd at the Pontiac Silverdome was about to crash the court in celebration, and security officers wanted to ensure the visiting team’s safety during the long march to their locker room.
Like the rivalries themselves, these arguments never really end.
Which is why Horry’s perspective has such a reasonable ring to it.
“I’m cool if they don’t shake hands," the retired NBA legend said of today’s players. "I’m cool if they do shake hands. But me, I ain’t shaking hands (after a loss). I’m mad.”
By Marc Duvoisin, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News