By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer / San Antonio Express-News, 2026-09-29 09:14:12
2026年9月28日，星期一，圣安东尼奥马刺队中锋维克托·文班亚马在位于圣安东尼奥的Victory Capital Performance Center举行的NBA球队媒体日上拍摄官方照片。文班亚马刚刚度过了队史最出色的个人赛季之一，但马刺主帅米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 认为他还有“巨大的提升空间”可以变得更加伟大。
维克托·文班亚马在2025-26赛季打出了马刺队史上最伟大的赛季之一，但主帅米奇·约翰逊认为，这位22岁的法国超级巨星“在各个方面都还有巨大的提升空间”。
“在进攻端，对他来说关键的一点就是继续去掌控和主导比赛，”约翰逊说，“不仅仅是靠得分，还要为队友创造机会，迫使防守方做出抉择，抓住眼前的机会，并且很可能要在整场比赛中持续串联这些，就像我们看到的那些最伟大的球员那样，几乎是在‘操纵’比赛——我们也见过他做到这一点。”
文班亚马在进入NBA的第三个赛季中，场均砍下生涯新高的25.0分、生涯最佳的11.5个篮板，以及联盟最高的3.1次盖帽，并由此成为首位全票当选的年度最佳防守球员，入选NBA最佳阵容第一阵容，还在MVP投票中位列第三。
尽管上赛季马刺打入总决赛（五场不敌纽约）导致休赛期缩短，文班亚马依然表示自己已经为又一个出色赛季做好了准备。
“我从来没有打过这么多比赛，”他说道——上赛季他出战了近90场比赛，其中包括22场季后赛。
尽管如此，他以从赛季一开始就准备用身体统治比赛的状态迎接新赛季。
“我在夏天注意到，我的身体基础水平提升了，现在的状态比我预期的还要好，尽管这个夏天很短暂，”他说，“所以这并不意味着我在夏天的体能训练上有所松懈，只是我尝试了一些不同的训练方式。”
其中一种“不同的方式”，是他和队友哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 在巴黎与其他几名马刺球员（包括7月与球队签下两年3100万美元合同的前锋托拜厄斯·哈里斯 (Tobias Harris)）一起训练之后，前往法国普罗旺斯地区艾克斯与职业橄榄球俱乐部Provence Rugby进行合练。
“那是一次很棒的经历，能看到他们那里的团队精神，非常鼓舞人心，”文班亚马谈到那支橄榄球队时说，“队友之间、教练与球迷之间的关系，对我来说太有意思了。训练本身非常艰苦，我觉得这对前庭系统、新的动作模式以及新的力量开发方式都很有好处。”
“但说实话，我更感激的是这段经历本身，以及他们在那里对我的欢迎。我从来没有在任何地方受到过这样的款待。我并不是球队的一员，但他们却把我当作自己人对待。真是了不起的团队精神。”
哈里斯与文班亚马相处的时间并不长，但这并不妨碍他对这位身高7英尺4英寸的全明星中锋给予高度评价。
“他是NBA最有天赋的球员，无论是他的身材、技术，还是他对学习的求知欲，”哈里斯说，“我加盟的时间还不长，但当人们问起他时，我总是说：‘听着，我在这个联盟打了16年，即将迎来我的第16个赛季，我从未见过像他这样刻苦训练的球员。’”
哈里斯表示，文班亚马的职业态度为全队定下了基调。
“当你看到这支球队的成功时，如果你最好的球员同时也是最努力的球员，那一切都会轻松得多。”
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查看原文：How much better can the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama be this season?
How much better can the Spurs’ Victor Wembanyama be this season?
San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama poses for official photos during the NBA basketball team’s media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. Wembanyama is coming off one of the best individual seasons in team history, but Spurs coach Mitch Johnson believes there is a “ton of room” for him to be even greater.
Victor Wembanyama put together one of the greatest seasons in Spurs history in 2025-26, but coach Mitch Johnson believes the 22-year-old French superstar has a “ton of room to improve in all aspects.”
“Offensively, one thing for him will just be to continue to manipulate and dictate the game,” Johnson said. “Not just by scoring, but by making plays for his teammates, forcing the defense to make a decision and taking advantages of opportunities in front of him and probably continuing to connect those throughout the game, where he’s almost puppeteering the game as we see the best players in our game do and we’ve seen him do.”
Wembanyama averaged a career-high 25.0 points, a career-best 11.5 rebounds and a league-high 3.1 blocks in his third NBA season on his way to becoming the first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year, a first-team All-NBA choice and the third-place finisher in MVP voting.
Despite the shortened offseason after the Spurs reached the Finals last season, where they lost in five games to New York, Wembanyama indicated he’s primed for another outstanding season.
“I never played so many games,” he said after logging nearly 90 last season, including 22 in the postseason.
Still, he’s entering the season primed physically to dominate from the start.
“What I’ve noticed in the summer is that my baseline has increased and I’m in a better shape than I could have expected right now, even though the summer was short,” he said. “So it doesn’t mean I pushed myself less conditioning-wise in the summer, but yeah, I kept experiencing some different ways to condition.”
One of those “different ways” came when he and teammate Harrison Barnes trained with pro rugby club Provence Rugby in Aix-en-Provence, France, after they worked out together with several other Spurs players in Paris, including forward Tobias Harris, who signed a two-year, $31 million deal with the club in July.
“It was a great experience seeing the kind of team spirit they have over there, very inspiring,” Wembanyama said of the rugby team. "The relationships between teammates and coaches and fans. It was so interesting for me. The training itself was really hard. I think it was really good for the vestibular system and new movement patterns and new ways to develop strength as well.
“But honestly, I’m more grateful for the experience in itself and how I was welcomed there. I’ve never been welcomed like this anywhere. I’m not part of the team and it treated me like I was. So amazing spirit.”
Harris hasn’t been around Wembanyama long, but that didn’t stop him from singling out the 7-foot-4 All-Star center for high praise.
“He’s the most talented player in the NBA, his size, his skillset and just his curiosity for learning,” Harris said. “And I’ve only been around for the amount of time that I’ve been signed, but I think when people ask me about him, I always say, ‘Listen, I’ve been in this league for 16 years. Going into my 16th season, I have not seen a guy work as hard as he works.’”
Harris said Wembanyama’s work ethic sets the tone for the rest of the team.
“And when you look at the success of this group and this team, when your best guys and the guys that are the hardest workers, it makes life a whole lot easier.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer / San Antonio Express-News