By Jacob Douglas / Pounding The Rock, 2026-09-30 06:59:38
媒体日通常相当无聊。数小时的公关式回答，对于常规赛开打后会发生什么几乎透露不出什么信息。但今年，圣安东尼奥马刺的媒体日有些不同。如果你仔细解读各种蛛丝马迹，圣安东尼奥新赛季的首发阵容中很可能将出现一张新面孔。
当天所有的言论都表明，迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 今年将首发出战，尽管外界原本预期他在第二个赛季仍会从替补席打起。
事情始于一篇《GQ》的文章，主角是斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和哈珀。以下是卡斯尔与哈珀的完整对话（已作语言编辑）：
哈珀和卡斯尔正在讨论这个休赛期对两人来说过得多么短暂，这时哈珀脸上绽开了笑容。
“我今年要拿最佳第六人，”他说。
“不，你拿不了，兄弟，”卡斯尔嗤笑道。
这个话题——关于颁给最佳替补球员的奖项——令人意外；仅仅一个月前，在总决赛后的新闻发布会上，队友德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 还曾表示，哈珀对“出场时间和自己所处的不同角色”感到沮丧。
“我要拿最佳第六人，”哈珀坚持道。
“你不会当第六人的，”卡斯尔说，“你能给谁当第六人？”
“我他妈哪知道——老天吗？”哈珀回答。
*你不会真觉得自己要打替补吧？*我插话问道。
“这里有什么官方回答吗？”哈珀说着，再次低头看了看我的录音笔。他把声音调整到最欢快的调门：“我会做球队需要我做的任何事，兄弟。如果是打替补的话……”
他停顿了一下。“这也太离谱了。不可能。我才不打什么替补。”
“兄弟，你只需要知道，你会进入首发阵容，”卡斯尔结束了这场讨论，“准备好打球就行。”（在对话的后面，哈珀收回了关于最佳第六人的说法：“我是在撒谎，”他说，“我当时是笑着说的。”）
现在看来，这多半像是两位年轻队友之间的玩笑打趣。但卡斯尔坚称哈珀将成为首发，这一点很有意思。考虑到他非常清楚队友们很可能也会听到这番话，这听起来不像是毫无根据的言论。马刺全队是否已就哈珀的角色达成共识？仅凭这一点还不足以说明问题。
但如果结合主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 的言论来看，马刺似乎确实已经清楚赛季开始时的首发五人是谁。
“我希望能看到他们三人一起打球，”约翰逊在被问及达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox)、卡斯尔和哈珀同时出场时说道，“我不知道具体会多多少，但肯定比我们常规赛时的同场时间要多。”
他还表示，希望他们能有更多机会一起打球，培养那种只有通过磨合和时间才能形成的化学反应。让他们获得这些时间的最佳方式是什么？那就是赛季伊始就进入首发阵容，在季后赛前轮换阵容定型之前把问题解决好。
就连福克斯也对三人同场搭档发表了自己的看法。
“我觉得我们三人同时在场上时打出过一些不错的表现，”福克斯说，“虽然次数不多，但我肯定期待看到更多这样的组合，也希望我们在攻防两端都能继续成长。”
有趣的是，偏偏是哈珀本人在媒体日上淡化了这一话题。
“对我来说最重要的是，就像去年一样，尽我所能帮助球队赢球，无论教练组认为哪个位置最适合我，我都乐意去打，”哈珀说。
看起来，哈珀将欣然进入首发阵容，与福克斯、卡斯尔、维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)，以及托拜厄斯·哈里斯、朱利安·尚帕尼或德文·瓦塞尔中的一人并肩作战。我们不用等太久就能揭晓答案，马刺将于下周10月8日开启他们的季前赛征程。
由生成式 AI 翻译，翻译内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
查看原文：It seems like Dylan Harper will start for the Spurs
It seems like Dylan Harper will start for the Spurs
Media day is usually pretty boring. It’s hours of PR-gated answers that don’t say much about what will happen when the regular season games start. But this year, something was different at the San Antonio Spurs media day. If you read all the tea leaves, it sure would seem like San Antonio will have a new starter in their first five.
All comments from the day indicated that Dylan Harper will start this year, despite the expectation that he would come off the bench again in year two.
It started with a GQ article featuring Stephon Castle and Harper. Here is the full back-and-forth with Castle and Harper (edited for language):
Harper and Castle are discussing how short this offseason has felt for the pair when a smile erupts across Harper’s face.
“I’m going to win Sixth Man of the Year this year,” he says.
“No you’re not, bro,” Castle scoffs.
The reference—to the prize awarded to the best player who comes off the bench—is surprising; only a month earlier at a press conference after the Finals, teammate Devin Vassell suggested that Harper had been frustrated with “playing time and different roles that he was in.”
“I’m going to win Sixth Man of the Year,” Harper insists.
“You’re not going to be Sixth Man,” Castle says. “Who are you going to be Sixth Man for?”
“I don’t f-ing know—God?” Harper answers.
You don’t actually think you’re going to come off the bench, do you? I cut in.
“What’s the political answer here?” Harper says, looking down at my recorder again. He calibrates his voice into its cheeriest pitch: “I’m going to do whatever the team needs me to do, man. If that’s come off the bench….”
He stops. “That’s crazy. F- no. I ain’t coming off no bench.”
“Bro, all you got to know is you going to be in the starting lineup,” Castle says, ending the discussion. “Be ready to hoop.” (Later in the conversation, Harper walks the Sixth Man thing back: “I was lying,” he says. “I had a smile on my face.”)
Now that mostly seems like playful banter between two young teammates. But Castle’s insistence that Harper will be a starter is interesting. It doesn’t sound like an uninformed thing for him to say, knowing very well his teammates would likely hear it, too. Could the Spurs all be on the same page about Harper’s role? This doesn’t provide enough information on its own.
But when you pair it with head coach Mitch Johnson’s comments, it sure seems like the Spurs know who will be in the starting five to begin the season.
“I see all three of them playing together”, Johnson said when asked about playing De’Aaron Fox, Castle and Harper together. “I don’t know the definition of a lot more, but more than we did in the regular season, for sure.”
He also said he wants them to have more opportunities to play with each other and grow the chemistry that only comes with reps and time. What is the best way for them to get that time? Starting the season in the first unit and figuring it out before the rotation starts to solidify ahead of the playoffs.
Even Fox had something to say about the trio playing together.
“I think we had some success when us three were on the court,” Fox said. “It didn’t happen a lot, but I definitely expect to see it more, and for us to continue to grow both offensively and defensively.”
What’s funny is that Harper, of all people, downplayed the conversation at media day.
“The biggest thing for me is whatever I can do, just like last year, to help the team win, in whatever position all of the coaches think is best for me to be in; that’s the position I’m happily going,” Harper said.
It seems like Harper will be happily going into the starting lineup alongside Fox, Castle, Victor Wembanyama, and one of Tobias Harris, Julian Champagnie, or Devin Vassell. We won’t have to wait long to find out, as the Spurs start their preseason schedule next week on October 8th.
By Jacob Douglas / Pounding The Rock
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