By Marilyn Dubinski / Pounding The Rock, 2026-09-22 03:40:03
我们已经完成了2026年夏季专题评选——票选马刺队史头号大反派。结合当前的时间节点来看，最终结果其实一点也不令人意外，但我必须承认，这并不是我们在一个多月前刚萌生这个创意时我所预想的结果（下文会详述）。在整个系列投票中力压扎扎·帕楚利亚 (Zaza Pachulia)——这位面对马刺时球风最脏的球员——最终登顶的，正是对这支球队的衰落负有更大责任的那个人：臭名昭著的丹尼斯·罗伯逊 (Dennis Robertson)。他是科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard) 的舅舅，也是毁灭了两支球队（可能还不止于此）的始作俑者。
“丹尼斯舅舅”第一次进入马刺球迷的视线是在2017-18赛季。当时令人震惊的流言开始四起，称伦纳德对球队感到不满，指责马刺误诊了他的股四头肌伤势——请注意，这伤病与帕楚利亚的那次犯规毫无关系——将其定性为慢性问题。球队允许他寻求外部医疗专家的诊断意见，于是他便前往纽约进行所谓的“康复训练”，期间几乎从未归队，甚至在马刺代表前来探望时躲进了衣橱。整个赛季中，各种负面报道不断流出，所有消息源都被统称为“科怀团队”，而我们很快便知道，这所谓的团队其实就是他当时的经纪人米奇·弗兰克尔 (Mitch Frankel) 以及他的舅舅兼代言人丹尼斯·罗伯逊。
随着流言持续发酵，媒体在方方面面似乎都站在科怀一边，马刺方面终于通过ESPN的迈克尔·C·莱特 (Michael C. Wright) 阐明了自己的立场。莱特在报道中写道：
据马刺消息人士透露，在伦纳德与（前经纪人布赖恩）埃尔弗斯 (Brian Elfus) 分道扬镳后，罗伯逊和弗兰克尔接管了与马刺的日常沟通，双方的关系远不如以往那般健康。
多位联盟消息人士还告诉ESPN，马刺越来越担心伦纳德的团队别有用心，意图破坏双方关系，从而促使伦纳德被交易到洛杉矶（伦纳德的家乡）、纽约或费城（罗伯逊定居在新泽西）等更大的球市。
到那时，谁在幕后操盘已经不言而喻，后来的事情大家也都知道了。（如果你真的想重新回顾2017-18赛季的那场完整闹剧，可以回去查阅事件的完整时间线。那只是我在PtR报道马刺的第二个赛季，我记得当时J.R. 威尔科 (J.R. Wilco) 把这个专题交给我时，我既深感荣幸又忐忑不安。但他的话极具先见之明：他告诉我，无论为了我们自己查证，还是为了将来向心存疑虑的人摆出事实，我们都需要这份记录，而我至今仍在频繁引用它。）
很显然，一切都在围绕着丹尼斯的意愿运转，科怀不过是顺水推舟。在2019年自由球员市场期间，这种情况仍在延续，据称他至少向猛龙、湖人和快船索要过违规利益。正如我们如今所知，快船做出了妥协，结果却作茧自缚，甚至连预期的回报都没拿到！事实证明，马刺关于科怀健康问题属于慢性伤病的判断完全正确；快船无论是靠他，还是靠他点名要来的搭档保罗·乔治 (Paul George)——为了得到乔治，快船送走了未来的MVP谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander)——都从未闯入过总决赛。（据报道，他们当时也曾要求马刺交易来乔治，但马刺回绝了，因为他们刚刚引进了拉马库斯·阿尔德里奇 (LaMarcus Aldridge)。）
丹尼斯舅舅这个大反派，亲手将马刺从看似能在GDP三巨头时代后继续保持争冠水准的强队，拖入了平庸的泥潭，并最终被迫开启重建模式。当然，我们现在可能会说：“但如果不是这样，我们现在也不会拥有文班、斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 或迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper)。”虽然这大概是事实，但其中所蕴含的巨大运气成分，尤其是得到文班的幸运，绝不能被忽视；只要乐透抽签的乒乓球弹向稍有不同，马刺可能至今仍处于水深火热之中。事实是，许多属于马刺的辉煌纪录都因科怀的消极怠工和离开而戛然而止，例如连续50胜赛季以及连续22年杀入季后赛的纪录；在今年重返季后赛之前，他们无缘季后赛的荒年数更是暴增了250%，从4年飙升至10年。
那么，令人意外的地方来了。早在四强赛阶段，我就曾说过，这取决于投票者究竟是将这一切归咎于煽风点火的丹尼斯舅舅，还是归咎于随波逐流的科怀。考虑到那些刺耳的嘘声，以及科怀在过去九个赛季中至少在公众层面一直稳坐“头号公敌”的宝座，我此前坚信他一定会登顶。因此，不仅是他未能进入决赛让我感到惊讶，决赛最终竟还将他置于受害者的角色，这着实有些讽刺。
但这恰恰证明了丹尼斯舅舅是一个多么善于操纵人心的人，大家的看法并没有错。无论“阿斯皮雷逊丑闻”(Aspiration Scandal)——这起事件与马刺毫无干系——是否在本次评选中为他推波助澜，那都已经无关紧要了。对于他的侄子来说，他最终成了一个极其糟糕的榜样；科怀在悲痛地失去亲生父亲后，本只是想寻找一位父亲般的长辈和一个值得信赖的人。罗伯逊却彻底利用了这一点，与此同时他还极其擅长保持低调，以至于我不得不沿用几篇文章前的那张题图，因为那是我能找到的仅有的几张他的照片之一，而且这是唯一一张既没有社交媒体文字覆盖、在我们网站上显示出来又不会模糊的照片。
所以，祝贺你，丹尼斯舅舅：你正式成为了马刺队史上的头号大反派。考虑到与你同台竞争的那些对手，这个头衔的分量可真是不轻。
我们再次向所有参与投票的读者表示感谢！我知道有些人觉得这只是休赛期的填空之作，如果说完全没有这层因素那绝对是假话，但它的意义远不止于此。在经历了长达9到10个月对常规赛、季后赛、选秀大会、自由球员市场和夏季联赛的报道之后，这为我们提供了一个有趣的并肩协作的机会。它也让我们得以稍稍施展创造力，并在这段一年中最沉闷的时光里带来有趣的团队合作与话题讨论。还要特别感谢赫苏斯·戈麦斯 (Jesus Gomez)、雅各布·道格拉斯 (Jacob Douglas) 和比尔·黄 (Bill Huan) 在发帖方面的协助；考虑到我手头目前的（其他）工作日程，如果没有他们，我绝不可能如此及时地完成这个专题。
马刺球迷们，新赛季马上就要来了。下周一就是媒体日！
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查看原文：Uncle Dennis Robertson is the Ultimate Spurs Villain
Uncle Dennis Robertson is the Ultimate Spurs Villain
We have completed our 2026 summer project of determining who the biggest Spurs Villain of all time is, and while the result shouldn’t be at all surprising when taking in context with the timing, I’ll admit it wasn’t the result I expected when we first concocted this idea a little over a month ago (more on that below). Beating out Zaza Pachulia (the dirtiest player to ever face the Spurs) to win the entire tournament is the person who played an even bigger role in the franchise’s downturn: the infamous Dennis Robertson: uncle to Kawhi Leonard and destroyer of two franchises (and counting).
Uncle Dennis first came into the purview of Spurs fans during the 2017-18 season, when shocking rumors started to swirl that Leonard was unhappy, claiming that they had misdiagnosed a quad injury — which mind you was unrelated to the Pachulia foul — as a chronic issue. They allowed him to seek a second medical opinion, and away he went to New York for “rehab”, hardly ever returning and even hiding in a closet when Spurs representatives came to check on him. As the negative reports kept trickling out all season, everything was being referred to has coming from “Kawhi’s group”, which we would soon learn was his agent at the time, Mitch Frankel, and uncle and representative, Dennis Robertson.
As rumors kept swirling and the media seemed to be taking Kawhi’s side on everything, the Spurs finally revealed their side of things through Michael C. Wright of ESPN, who wrote in part:
After Leonard and (former agent Brian) Elfus parted ways, Robertson and Frankel took over the day-to-day communication with the Spurs, and the relationship hasn’t been nearly as healthy, according to Spurs sources.
Multiple league sources also told ESPN that the Spurs have grown worried that Leonard’s group has an ulterior motive to fray the relationship and get Leonard traded to a larger market such as Los Angeles (Leonard’s hometown) or New York or Philadelphia (Robertson lives in New Jersey).
By that point, it was clear who was running the show, and we all know what happened from there. (If you really want to relive the whole saga that was 2017-18, go back and check out the entire timeline of events. That was just my second season covering the Spurs here at PtR, and I remember being both honored and terrified that J.R. Wilco gave me that project. But his words were prophetic: he told me we‘d need it to reference back to both for ourselves and to show to doubters in the future, and I still use it plenty.)
It was clear everything evolved around what Dennis wanted, and Kawhi was just along for the ride. That continued to be the case as he allegedly demanded impermissible benefits from at least the Raptors, Lakers and Clippers during 2019 free agency. As we now know, the Clippers acquiesced, much to their own detriment, and it didn’t even pay off! The Spurs’ were proven right about Kawhi’s health issues being chronic; the Clippers never reached the finals with him or his desired running mate of Paul George, whom they acquired for future MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. (They reportedly demanded the Spurs trade for George as well, but they said no since they had just gotten LaMarcus Aldridge.)
Uncle Dennis is a villain who helped send the Spurs from seemingly set to keep contending after the Big 3 era to stuck in mediocrity and eventually rebuild mode. Sure, we could say, “but we wouldn’t have Wemby, Castle or Harper now,” and while likely true, the amount of luck involved especially with Wemby can’t be overlooked, and with a different bounce of the lottery balls, the Spurs could still be in purgatory. The fact is many of their sterling records were broken by Kawhi quitting/leaving, such as the streak of 50-win seasons and 22 straight years in the playoffs, and their number of years outside the playoffs grew by 250%, from four to ten before they returned this year.
Now here is where the surprise comes in. Back in the Final Four, I said it was up to the voters to decide if they blamed Uncle Dennis for influencing Kawhi to make all this happen, or if Kawhi was to blame for going along with it. Based on the boos and Kawhi at least publicly being Villain #1 over the last nine seasons, I thought for sure he would win, so the fact that not only did he not make the finals surprise me, but also the finals ending up putting him in a victim role, which is more than a bit ironic.
But that just goes show how manipulative a human being Uncle Dennis is, and you all aren’t wrong. Whether or not the Aspiration Scandal — which had nothing to do with the Spurs — played a role in his victory here is beside the point. He ended up being a terrible role model for his nephew, who was just looking for a father figure and someone to trust after he tragically lost his own. Robertson took complete advantage, all while being so good at keeping a low profile that I had to recycle the same header photo from a few articles ago because it was one of only a handful of photos I could find of him, and this is the only one that either didn’t have text on it from a social media post or wouldn’t come out blurry on our site.
So congratulations, Uncle Dennis: you are officially the most villainous character in Spurs history, and that is saying A LOT considering some of the competition you had to compete with.
Once again, we want to thank everyone who participated! I know some see this as simply space filler for the offseason, and it would be a lie to say that isn’t at least part of it, but there is also much more to it than that. It gives us something fun to team up on after what can be a very long 9-10 months of covering the regular season, playoffs, draft, free agency and Summer League. It also allows us to let out our creative sides a bit, and it makes for some fun teamwork and conversation during the dull time of the year. A special thank you also goes to Jesus Gomez, Jacob Douglas and Bill Huan for helping with the posts; with my current (other) work schedule, I never would have gotten this done in a timely manner without them.
We’re almost there, Pounders. Media Day is next Monday!
By Marilyn Dubinski / Pounding The Rock
