文班亚马反思总决赛不敌尼克斯后的难眠之夜
By Jared Weiss / The Athletic, 2026-09-29 03:45:41
圣安东尼奥——维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 热爱睡眠。
在睡觉这件事上，他堪称专家。若聚会快赶上就寝时间，他会早早开溜。当我们大多数人为睡满八小时而庆幸时，他的睡眠时长却经常达到两位数。保养身体不仅仅是他大部分清醒时间都在做的事。
但在圣安东尼奥马刺队输掉NBA总决赛之后，情况并非如此了。马刺队的强势崛起，比球队之外任何人的预期都要快。坦白讲，这或许也超出了他们自己的想象。这个令人惊喜的赛季并没有减轻多少痛苦。起初，这位NBA最擅长休息的球员之一，甚至很难合眼。
对于一个向来不愿沉湎于懊恼中的人来说，这种情绪是不可避免的。
“有时确实很难入睡。情绪起伏很大，”文班亚马在周一的马刺媒体日上说道，“但总有那么一个时刻，你会接受现实，明白自己必须经历这些。你必须去感受这一切。我们不想逃避任何东西。”
“为此失眠很正常，你之后可以补个觉，”作为队内少数拥有总冠军戒指的球员之一，哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 说道，“但最重要的是拥有这种参照坐标。我们并不想拔苗助长，也不想急于超越眼前的现实。”
文班亚马消化了内心的情绪；他的训练比以往任何时候都更加刻苦，随后翻开了新的一页。如今情况不同了。他不再只是下一个备受瞩目的超新星。他不再是初出茅庐。他已经傲然立于顶峰。对队里的每一个人来说亦是如此。现在，重返总决赛已成为马刺的基准线，而非难以企及的奢望，他们必须摸索清楚这条征途究竟该如何走下去。
赛季结束几周后，当达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在休斯敦召集多位队友进行休赛期特训时，他们便开始探寻这条道路。即便福克斯的低迷是他们输给纽约尼克斯队的重要原因，但也已无关紧要。
“我坚持带伤出战了，我打完了比赛。我真希望自己能打得更好，但我没能做到，”在季后赛期间遭遇高位踝关节扭伤的福克斯说道，“我觉得自己有一种翻篇的天赋，而我已经释怀了。”
福克斯的队友们亦是如此。他们在初夏为这次复仇之旅打下基调，随后又在法国重新集结。
文班亚马在法国楠泰尔的老家以及巴黎组织了一次迷你训练营，接待了福克斯、巴恩斯、卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant)、迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper)、斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle)、乔丹·麦克劳克林 (Jordan McLaughlin)、托拜厄斯·哈里斯 (Tobias Harris) 以及上赛季的队友凯利·奥利尼克 (Kelly Olynyk)。文班亚马表示，能让自己的弟兄们来到他的世界，在梦开始的地方和他一起训练，感觉非常暖心且动容。
马刺初期的崛起，源自他们共享的快乐，以及彼此相处和并肩作战时的融洽自在。他们能如此迅速地杀入总决赛，凭的不是经验，而是因为他们彼此毫无保留地倾尽全力，而文班亚马始终以身作则树立这一标杆。当他踏上总决赛赛场，未能达到自己一路走来设立的高标准时，从纽约到俄克拉荷马城乃至更多地方，外界的非议扑面而来。而队友们出现在家门口，让他明白自己拥有坚强的后盾，足以应对全新级别的审视。
“这种压力往往太重了。但这都是其中的一部分，”他说道，“我训练并不是为了这个，但在某种程度上，这就是成功的标志。这是我在总决赛乃至整个季后赛经历中最不喜欢的部分，但也是一个好迹象。所以，我依然渴望追求它。”
在这个赛季，这种关注与审视将伴随他始终。上赛季，文班亚马让NBA内外的所有人都为之惊叹。但现在，许多人开始对他产生敌意。别忘了，杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 和他的尼克斯队友们在庆祝夺冠时，曾高举酒杯大喊：“去他的文班！”
他现在有了黑粉。这也是他凭实力招来的。他展现出极强的竞争心，常常游走在规则与尺度的边缘，有时甚至越雷池一步。如今，文班亚马正承受着顶级巨星每天所面对的同等压力。
“我们正在为登上山顶而战，”文班亚马说，“我们必须移开挡在路上的所有人。事实就是这样。所以，我也将这视为一种巨大的尊重。”
现在的竞争将更加白热化。全联盟的球队在构建阵容时，都已经开始针对文班亚马进行布局。自2019年的金州勇士队之后，再没有任何一支球队能够重返NBA总决赛，这绝非偶然。但那支球队在经历了数年的挣扎后，又于2022年重振雄风夺得总冠军。仅仅错失了一次登顶机会，并不意味着一切结束，尤其是对于马刺这样一支底蕴极佳、前景光明的球队而言。
进入文班时代的第四年，他们手握无数优势。阵容班底得以保留，引进了托拜厄斯·哈里斯这样优秀的经验老将，球队完全有理由更进一步。当赛季遇到分歧或摩擦时，他们可以回想起那次巴黎之旅；但最重要的是，当陷入困境时，他们可以回望那些辗转反侧的难眠之夜。
“我们正处于一个极佳的位置。我们充满饥饿感，雄心勃勃，”文班亚马说，“我想不出还有什么比这更好的动力了。”
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查看原文：Victor Wembanyama reflects on sleepless nights after NBA Finals loss to Knicks
Victor Wembanyama reflects on sleepless nights after NBA Finals loss to Knicks
SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama loves to sleep.
He’s a professional at sleeping. He ducks out early when a function is getting close to bedtime. While most of us are lucky to get eight hours, he’s clocking in double digits regularly. Taking care of his body isn’t just something he does most of his waking hours.
But after the San Antonio Spurs’ NBA Finals loss, that wasn’t happening. The Spurs arrived, faster than anyone outside of their walls expected. Probably quicker than they imagined, if they really wanted to be honest. That pleasant surprise of a season didn’t ameliorate the pain too much. One of the NBA’s great resters couldn’t get much of it, at first.
For a man who does not seem to dwell in remorse, it was unavoidable.
“It’s been hard to fall asleep sometimes. Hard emotions,” Wembanyama said at Spurs media day Monday. “But there is a point where you accept that you have to go through it. You have to feel all of it. We don’t want to hide from anything.”
“It’s OK to lose sleep over it. You can take a nap,” said Harrison Barnes, one of the few players on this team with a championship ring. “But the biggest thing is having that frame of reference. We’re not trying to accelerate or get anywhere quicker than what’s in front of us.”
Wembanyama processed his emotions; he trained harder than ever, and he moved on. Things are different now. He is no longer just the next thing. He is not up and coming. He is here. That goes for everyone on the team. Now the Spurs have to figure out what their journey looks like when returning to the finals is a baseline, not a reach.
They started to find that path in Houston, when De’Aaron Fox hosted several teammates for offseason workouts a few weeks after their season ended. It didn’t matter if Fox’s struggles were a big part of their loss to the New York Knicks.
“I was able to play through, and I played. I wish I played better, but I didn’t,” said Fox, who dealt with a high ankle sprain during the playoffs. “I feel like I have a gift of being able to move on, and I’ve moved on from it.”
Fox’s teammates did the same. They laid the groundwork for their revenge tour in the early summer, then reconvened back in France.
Wembanyama hosted Fox, Barnes, Carter Bryant, Dylan Harper, Stephon Castle, Jordan McLaughlin, Tobias Harris and last year’s teammate Kelly Olynyk for a mini-camp back home in Nanterre, France, as well as Paris. Wembanyama said it was very touching and emotional to have his crew come out to his world and work out with him where it all started.
The Spurs’ nascent rise was fueled by their shared joy, the ease with which they got along and played together. They didn’t get to the finals so quickly off experience, but because they played hard for one another and Wembanyama always set that standard himself. When he got to the finals and couldn’t live up to the lofty standard he set along the way, it exposed him to vilification everywhere from New York to Oklahoma City and beyond. His teammates showing up at his door made it clear he has the support he needs to weather the new level of scrutiny he faces.
“It is too much, often. It’s all a part of it,” he said. “This is not what I work for, but this is a symbol of success to some extent. It’s the part I like the least about the finals or the playoffs experience in general, but it’s a good sign. So yeah, I still want it.”
It’s going to come his way throughout this season. Wembanyama evoked a sense of wonder throughout last season from people inside and outside of the NBA. But now a lot of those people are mad at him. Don’t forget, Jalen Brunson and his Knicks teammates toasted, “F— Wemby!” when they celebrated their championship.
He has haters now. He’s earned it. He competed hard, often toeing the line and sometimes stepping over it. Now, Wembanyama faces the same pressure the best players in the game live every day.
“We’re fighting for the top spot of the mountain,” Wembanyama said. “We’re going to have to move people in our way. That’s just the way it is. So I take it as a great sign of respect as well.”
Now the competition will be even greater. Teams throughout the league have started building their rosters with Wembanyama in mind. There’s a reason no team has even returned to the NBA Finals since the Golden State Warriors in 2019. But that team floundered for a few years, then came roaring back for a title in 2022. Just because you missed your shot doesn’t mean it’s over, especially for a team as distinctly well-positioned as the Spurs.
They have so much in their favor as they enter Year 4 of Wemby. The team is still together, has added a good veteran to the mix in Tobias Harris and can expect to take another step forward. They have the trip to Paris to remember when friction heats up. But more than anything, they have the sleepless nights to look back on when things get tough.
“This is a great spot. We’re hungry, we’re ambitious,” Wembanyama said. “I couldn’t imagine a better motivation.”
By Jared Weiss / The Athletic
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