By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer / San Antonio Express-News, 2026-10-04 14:04:31
2026年9月28日，星期一，圣安东尼奥胜利资本训练中心，圣安东尼奥马刺队后卫达龙·福克斯（4号）在球队媒体日上回答记者提问。
在经历了一个令人心碎的总决赛结局后，马刺后卫达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 让自己郁闷了整整两个月。
他任由自己沉溺其中，让失利的刺痛深深烙在心头。
随后，福克斯拿出了他在九年NBA职业生涯中已经颇为擅长的本事。
他放下了。
“我觉得自己有一种能够迅速走出来的天赋，”在马刺开启自己首个完全健康的训练营之际，福克斯说道，“我会反思，但这也是一个全新的赛季，崭新的一天。”
对于福克斯而言，走出阴影并不意味着遗忘，而是意味着坦诚面对在NBA最高舞台上，自己和马刺在这轮五场败给纽约的系列赛中究竟哪里出了问题。
值得反思的地方有很多。
以第四场的最后几秒为例：当时马刺领先一分，尼克斯必须犯规，球权在福克斯手中。他没有选择耗完时间，而是径直冲向篮筐，深信自己能在速度上击败纽约的OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby)。
但他没能做到。
阿奴诺比送上大帽，随后不久又在另一端打进绝杀补篮。正是这样的抉择，让福克斯在整个夏天里于脑海中不断复盘。
“这确实困扰了我一阵子，”福克斯说，“你显然会去想它，它会留在你的脑海深处。但你不能在未来的篮球生涯、甚至在往后的人生中，一直对此耿耿于怀。”
新赛季已近在眼前，28岁的福克斯渴望将上赛季彻底翻篇。
他在圣安东尼奥的首个完整赛季其实相当出色，直到那个令人泄气的结局到来。
2025年8月，福克斯签下了一份为期四年、价值2.23亿美元的提前续约合同，这在当时创下了马刺队史单笔合同最高金额的纪录。
福克斯用职业生涯第二次入选全明星的表现回报了球队的投资。那个赛季他场均贡献18.6分，并证明了自己是斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 这对年轻后场组合极具价值的更衣室领袖。
这一角色要求福克斯清楚何时该接管比赛，何时该主动退居次席。马刺主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 看到了这种平衡之道的价值。
“对于一个在职业生涯中交出过如此亮眼数据的球员来说，在生涯的现阶段既能扮演绿叶角色，成全任何当晚状态正佳的队友，同时又随时保持着‘我可以在任何时刻接管比赛’的敏锐嗅觉，这种特质或许并未得到足够的讨论，也没有被赋予应有的价值，”约翰逊说道。
这种如走钢丝般的平衡还将继续。
在即将到来的新赛季，福克斯预计需要再次扮演好这个角色，因为约翰逊表示，他希望自己的三位明星后卫能够获得更多共同在场的时间——并且分享球权。
在训练营进行了一周后，福克斯对这一计划没有任何怀疑。他表示自己“百分之百”信任主教练。
“我们清楚今年彼此会并肩作战，”福克斯说。
助力福克斯去迎接一个爆发赛季的，还有他至少是完完整整、健康地来到了训练营。
福克斯去年缺席了训练营。他在一次夏季训练中遭遇腿筋受伤，导致缺席了常规赛的前八场比赛，直到11月才迎来马刺生涯首秀。
而他的赛季也是在伤病中收尾的。
福克斯在马刺对阵明尼苏达的西部半决赛中遭遇高位踝关节扭伤，这一伤势让他错过了对阵俄克拉荷马城的西部决赛前两场。
即使他在季后赛中带伤复出，平日里以风驰电掣著称的福克斯也未能恢复到最佳速度。事后回想，这或许在一定程度上解释了为何福克斯在客场对阵纽约的第四战中，未能赢下与阿奴诺比那次代价惨重的速度对决。
“伤病在所难免，”福克斯说，“我撑着打完了比赛。我真希望自己能打得更好，但我没能做到。”
福克斯带伤作战的毅力虽未能换来总冠军，但却为他赢得了马刺更衣室的敬重。
“带伤硬顶确实很难，尤其是在赛季那个阶段最重要的比赛中，”卡斯尔说，“显然他是我们的领袖，没有他，我们根本走不到那个高度。得知他愿意为球队付出一切，我们大家都无比感激。”
如今，福克斯拥有了一年前未曾拥有的东西——一张完全健康的体检单，以及一个能为接下来的征程做足准备的完整休赛期。
到目前为止，福克斯在训练营里的状态让队友们倍感振奋。
“看到他完全康复重回球场，”卡斯尔说，“显而易见，他的脚步丝毫不减当年。我认为这对他来说会是一个伟大的赛季。”
或许，福克斯洗刷上赛季阴霾的最好方式，就是让队友们对这个新赛季的期许成为现实。
福克斯明白，总决赛失利的痛楚永远无法彻底抹去。但在未来的道路上，他依然掌握着主动权。
“你肯定不想带着遗憾生活，”福克斯说道，“但竞技体育总有人赢、有人输。归根结底，你必须努力学会翻过这一页。”
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查看原文：How De'Aaron Fox hopes to move on from Finals disappointment
How De’Aaron Fox hopes to move on from Finals disappointment
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) answers questions from reporters during the NBA basketball team’s media day at the Victory Capital Performance Center in San Antonio, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026.
For two months after a disappointing end to the NBA Finals, Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox allowed himself to stew.
He allowed himself to wallow. He let the loss sting.
Then Fox did what he has become pretty good at doing over the course of his nine-year NBA career.
He let it go.
“I feel like I have a gift in being able to move on,” Fox said on the cusp of his first healthy Spurs training camp. “I reflect, but it’s a new season. It’s a new day.”
For Fox, moving on didn’t mean forgetting. It meant taking an honest look at what had gone wrong for him — and the Spurs — in their five-game loss to New York on the NBA’s brightest stage.
There was plenty to reflect upon.
Take the final seconds of Game 4, when Fox had the ball in his hands with the Spurs leading by one and the Knicks needing to foul. Instead of running out the clock, he raced toward the basket, convinced he could beat New York’s OG Anunoby to the rim.
He couldn’t.
Anunoby blocked the shot, who then moments later tipped in the game-winning basket. It was the kind of decision Fox spent the summer replaying in his head.
“It definitely stuck with me for a bit,” Fox said. “Obviously you think about it. It’s in the back of your mind. But you don’t want to dwell on that for the rest of the time that you play basketball, for the rest of the time that you live.”
With a new season on the horizon, the 28-year-old Fox is eager to put the last one behind him.
His first full campaign in San Antonio went well, right up until its deflating ending.
In August of 2025, Fox signed a four-year, $223-million extension that at the time ranked as the most lucrative single contract in franchise history.
Fox made good on the team’s investment with his second career All-Star campaign, one in which he averaged 18.6 points and proved himself a valuable veteran leader for young backcourt mates Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper.
It was a role that required Fox to know when to take over and when to take a step back. Spurs coach Mitch Johnson saw the value in that balancing act.
“For someone who has put up the production that he has in his career, at this stage in his career to be able to be complimentary and nurture whoever’s night it is while also having the pulse of, ‘I will take this over at any moment,’ is probably not discussed enough or not given enough value,” Johnson said.
That tightrope isn’t going anywhere.
Fox can expect to walk it again the season to come, as Johnson said he expects his three star guards to spend more time sharing the court — and the ball.
A week into training camp, Fox had no doubts about the plan. He said he believed his coach “1,000 percent.”
“We know we’re going to play together this year,” Fox said.
Aiding Fox’s bid at a big season ahead: He at least arrived at training camp ambulatory.
Fox didn’t make it to camp last year. A hamstring injury suffered during a summertime workout sidelined him for the first eight games of the regular season, postponing his Spurs debut until November.
And he ended the season hurt, too.
Fox suffered a high ankle sprain in the Spurs’ Western Conference semifinal series against Minnesota, an injury that sidelined him for Games 1 and 2 against Oklahoma City in the conference finals.
Even when he returned to the postseason lineup, the typically fleet-footed Fox wasn’t quite up to full speed. In retrospect, that might help explain why Fox was unable to win that ill-fated footrace with Anunoby in Game 4 at New York.
“Injuries happen,” Fox said. “I was able to play through it. I wish I played better, but I didn’t.”
Fox’s determination to push through his playoff injuries did not result in a championship. It did, however, earn him the respect of the Spurs’ locker room.
“It’s kind of hard to push through injuries, especially in the biggest games of basketball at that point in the season,” Castle said. “Obviously he’s a leader for us and without him we wouldn’t have been in the positions that we were. We were all super grateful to know that he would do that for his team.”
Now Fox gets something he didn’t have a year ago — a clean bill of health and a full offseason to prepare for what comes next.
So far in camp, Fox’s teammates have been heartened by what they have seen.
“To have him fully back healthy and have him back on the court,” Castle said. “Obviously he didn’t miss a step. I think it will be a great year for him.”
Perhaps the best way for Fox to wipe clean last season is to make his teammates’ prediction for this one come true.
Fox understands there is no way to completely erase the heartbreak of the NBA Finals. But there is something he can do about what comes next.
“You don’t want to live with that regret,” Fox said. “But someone has to win, someone has to lose. And at the end of the day, you have to try to be able to move past it.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer / San Antonio Express-News