对抗雷霆的两周终於结束，很高兴迎来好的收获 老实说，今年的马刺已经超乎我的高标预期（能过二轮就已经是我的高标了 XD） 我开始有种「或许是今年」的感觉 Go SPURS Go https://www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs/article/spurs-victor-wembanyama-lived-up-to-hype-dreams-22284617.php How Victor Wembanyama lived up to the hype, and to an impossible dream 梦想成真：Victor Wembanyama 如何不负众望，实现那看似不可能的梦 Victor Wembanyama on the 111-103 Game 7 victory over the Thunder that sent the Spurs to the NBA Finals: 'It’s almost like the meaning of my life.' Wembanyama 谈到这场以 111 比 103 击败雷霆队并将马刺队送进 NBA 总决赛的第七战胜 利：『这简直就像是我生命的意义。』 By Mike Finger,Sports ColumnistMay 31, 2026 OKLAHOMA CITY — Like a child. Doubled over with tears in his eyes, searching for somebody to hug, that’s how Victor Wembanyama looked amid the on-court hysteria at Paycom Center. 就像个孩子一样。双脚弯曲、眼中泛着泪水，在人群中搜寻着可以拥抱的对象——这正 是 Victor Wembanyama 在 Paycom Center 球场上那片狂喜与混乱中所展现的模样。 It’s also how he looked from the stands of another arena seven years earlier. 这同时也是七年前，他从另一座球馆的观众席上望向球场时的模样。 That was when the Spurs first saw their future. Even if it was impossible to imagine it would arrive this fast. 那是马刺队第一次看见他们的未来。即便在当时，根本不可能想像到这个未来会来得如此 迅速。 Halfway up the lower bowl Saturday night, there were men who still remembered that initial glimpse of the skinny miracle who would change their franchise, their city, their league. They would love to be able to claim that, way back then, they saw all of this coming. 周六晚间，在球场下层看台的中央，坐着几位依然清晰记得那初次惊鸿一瞥的人。当时那 个骨瘦如柴的奇蹟，如今改变了他们的球队、他们的城市、乃至於他们的联盟。他们当然 很乐意声称，自己在很久以前就预见了这一切的到来。 But really, now. Who could have expected this? 但说真的，事到如今，谁能料想到这点？ Who even could have dreamed it? 甚至，谁敢做这样的梦？ Only a child could. 只有孩子才敢。 “It’s hard to put into words,” Wembanyama said, still choked up by the realization that a 111-103 Game 7 victory over the Thunder had sent the Spurs to the NBA Finals. “It’s almost like the meaning of my life.” 「这很难用言语来形容，」Wembanyama 说道，当意识到这场以 111 比 103 击败雷霆队 的第七战胜利已将马刺队送进 NBA 总决赛时，他依然语带哽咽。「这简直就像是我生命 的意义。」 The men who followed him to a place called Bourg-en-Bresse, France, in the spring of 2019 had no clue about anything so grand as his destiny. All they knew was that a Spurs international scout who’d been looking at another prospect mentioned something about a prodigious 15-year-old, and that it supposedly would be worth the team’s while to send a contingent to the French U18 Final Four. 在 2019 年春天跟随他前往法国一个名叫布雷斯地区布尔格（Bourg-en-Bresse）小镇的 人们，当时对他背负的宏大命运一无所知。他们当时唯一知道的，是马刺队的一位国际球 探在考察另一位潜力新秀时，顺口提到了一个天赋异禀的 15 岁少年，并认为球队非常值 得派出一支代表团去观看那场法国 U18 的四强赛。 There, in a mostly empty gym, playing alongside much older boys who had to crane their necks to look up at him, was the kid with the potential to turn an entire sport on its head. But the Spurs never were so crazy as to think he could live up to the hype that just was beginning to build. And they never were so crazy to think that even if he did, they’d be lucky enough to have him do it for them. 在那里，在一间几乎空无一人的体育馆里，与一群年龄比他大很多、必须伸长脖子才能仰 望他的男孩们同场竞技的，正是这个拥有将整项运动彻底颠覆的潜力的孩子。但马刺队当 时绝没有疯狂到会认为他能自此不负那才刚开始建立的漫天夸赞；他们更没有疯狂到会去 想，即便他真的做到了，自己竟然还能有幸成为让他为圣安东尼奥成就这一切的球队。 But across an ocean from where he started, there that kid was Saturday night, wearing the jersey of the storied franchise that hadn’t made a playoff run since he’d caught the team’s eye as a 15-year-old. There he was, putting the finishing touches on a series he dominated against the defending NBA champions, and the two-time league Most Valuable Player. 然而，周六晚间，在距离他起点隔着一座大洋的这里，那个孩子就站在那里，身上穿着这 支富有传奇色彩的球队战袍——这支自他 15 岁吸引球队目光以来，就再也没有在季後赛 走得这麽远的球队。他就站在那里，为这个由他亲手统治的系列赛画上完美句点，而他击 败的对手，是联盟的卫冕冠军，以及两届常规赛最有价值球员（MVP）。 There Wembanyama was, blocking Shai Gilgeous-Alexander from behind to set the third-quarter tone. There he was, pouring in fundamental Tim Duncan bank shots and cold-blooded Manu Ginobili 3-pointers. There he was, screaming for Dylan Harper and Stephon Castle and Julian Champagnie, and all of the other teammates who kept following his lead. Wembanyama 就出现在那里，从背後封阻了 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 的投篮，为第三节 奠定了防守基调；他就出现在那里，投进了带有 Tim Duncan 影子、教科书般的擦板投篮 ，以及如 Manu Ginobili 般冷酷无情的三分球；他就出现在那里，对着 Dylan Harper、 Stephon Castle、Julian Champagnie 以及所有持续追随他脚步的队友们大声咆哮激励。 “We needed him to be demonstrative,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “We needed him to play with strength. We needed him to bring his will.” 「我们需要他站出来展现情绪，」马刺队总教练 Mitch Johnson 说道。「我们需要他打 出强势，我们需要他带入自己的意志。」 The will always is the hardest part to be sure of. You could have looked at Wembanyama when he was 15, or 17, or 20, and known that he was capable of doing things on a basketball court that few humans ever had attempted, let alone pulled off. You could have watched him for a few minutes as a rookie and realized that he could block shots like Rudy Gobert, and attack the rim like Giannis Antetokounmpo, and shoot like Kevin Durant. 意志，往往是最难以打包票的部分。你可以在 Wembanyama 15 岁、17 岁或 20 岁的时候 看着他，深知他有能力在篮球场上做出极少数人类曾尝试过、更不用说成功办到的动作。 你可以在他新秀赛季看他打个几分钟，便意识到他能像 Rudy Gobert 那样封阻投篮、能 像 Giannis Antetokounmpo 那样冲击篮框、还能像 Kevin Durant 那样精准投射。 But to do what Wembanyama did Saturday, a player needs more than talent. To disprove the ancient, previously irrefutable NBA law that says every superstar has to experience postseason failure before he can achieve postseason glory, a player has to show he has every clichéd part of the torso: 但要做到 Wembanyama 在周六所成就的事，一名球员需要的绝不仅仅是天赋。为了打破那 条古老、且此前在 NBA 颠扑不破的定律——亦即每位超级巨星在获得季後赛荣耀前，都 必须先经历季後赛挫折的阵痛——一名球员必须证明自己拥有那些老生常谈的躯干部位： Backbone. 骨气 Guts. 胆识 Heart. 心脏 Two summers ago in Paris, Wembanyama provided glimpses of all of that during the Olympics. After he stared down LeBron James, Steph Curry and Durant, and nearly carried France to an upset of Team USA in the gold medal game, he stood in front of an Express-News columnist and made a prediction. 两年前在巴黎的奥运会期间，Wembanyama 就曾让人们窥见了这一切。在他正面迎战 LeBron James、Steph Curry 和 Durant，并险些带领法国队在金牌战中爆冷击败美国队 之後，他站在本报专栏作家面前，做出了一个预言。 “I’m learning” Wembanyama said. “And I’m worried for the opponents in a couple of years.” 「我正在学习，」Wembanyama 当时说道。「而我为几年後的对手们感到担忧。」 A couple of years later, that worry has proven to be prescient. His vanquished star-caliber opponents are piling up. A conference that included the likes of Gilgeous-Alexander, Anthony Edwards, Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic couldn’t stop Wembanyama from winning the West before he’s ever lost a playoff series. 两年後，那份担忧已被证实具有惊人的预见性。那些被他击败的球星级对手正在不断堆叠 。在一个包含了 Gilgeous-Alexander、Anthony Edwards、Nikola Jokic 和 Luka Doncic 等豪强的西区联盟中，没有人能阻止 Wembanyama 在他生涯从未输过任何一个季 後赛系列赛的情况下，成功登顶西区。 It helps, of course, that he’s surrounded by near-perfect supporting cast, in a near-perfect system, employing a near-perfect plan. As much as was made about Oklahoma City’s overwhelming depth, one might argue that once Jalen Williams went down, four of the top five performers in the Western Conference Finals were Spurs. 当然，这在很大程度上也得益於他身边围绕着近乎完美的支援阵容、处於近乎完美的体系 中，并执行着近乎完美的计画。尽管外界此前对奥克拉荷马城排山倒海的阵容深度大做文 章，还是会有人们争论是因为雷霆队的Jalen Williams受伤缺赛，否则雷霆可以取得胜利 。但在西区决赛中表现最好的前五名球员里，有四位都隶属於马刺队（除了SGA）。 One might argue that 39-year-old Mitch Johnson and his staff coached circles around the Thunder’s Mark Daigneault, a very bright man with an outstanding track record who was way too slow to pull the plug on lineup combinations that had no hope of working against the Spurs. 人们同样可以辩称，39 岁的 Mitch Johnson 及其教练团，在战术调度上完胜了雷霆队 的 Mark Daigneault——後者是一位极具智慧且拥有辉煌履历的教练，但在面对马刺队时 ，他对於撤换那些毫无胜算的阵容组合却显得过於迟钝。 And one might argue that none of this would have happened if Wembanyama hadn’ t bought into general manager Brian Wright’s patient approach to roster building, or if he hadn’t endorsed Johnson’s vision for what a post-Gregg Popovich Spurs team would look like. 而且人们也可以辩称，如果 Wembanyama 当初没有全盘接受总管 Brian Wright 在建队时 所采取的耐心策略，或者如果他没有全力支持 Johnson 对於後 Popovich 时代马刺队该 呈现何种风貌的愿景，这一切都不可能发生。 Last season, Wembanyama could have used his influence to push for a much bigger acquisition than De’Aaron Fox. Last summer, he could have steered the organization toward a much more established coaching hire than Johnson. 在上个赛季，Wembanyama 本可以利用他的巨星影响力，去推动比引进 De'Aaron Fox 更 具轰动效应的超级交易；在去年夏天，他本可以引导管理层去聘请一位比 Johnson 名气 大得多的成名总教练。 Instead, he embraced everything about what the Spurs were trying to do, and now he and his franchise are positioned to make June basketball a fixture of the Frost Bank Center schedule for as long as the old tin barn remains open, and probably beyond. 然而，相反地，他拥抱了马刺队试图去做的每一件事。而现在，他和他的球队正处於极佳 的位置——只要那座老旧的锡皮谷仓（指 Frost Bank Center 球馆）依然开门营业，甚 至在更远的未来，六月的总决赛篮球都将成为这座球馆行事历上的固定常客。 “I want to do that 15, 20 more times,” Wembanyama said. “Let’s hope it doesn’t become an addiction. Maybe it is already.” 「我想把这件事再做个 15、20 次，」Wembanyama 说道。「但愿这不会变成一种毒瘾。 不过，也许它现在已经是了。」 Down the hall, there were longtime members of the organization who were all too familiar with that inclination. Some of them were moving in and out of a raucous locker room and the coaches offices, where a plan was already being formulated for a tough Finals matchup against the New York Knicks. 在走廊的另一头，球团中几位资深的成员对於这种对於胜利的渴望再熟悉不过了。他们中 的一些人正步履匆匆地进出那间喧闹的休息室和教练办公室，在那里，针对即将与纽约尼 克队展开的艰难总决赛大战，一项战术计画已经在紧锣密鼓地制定中。 Nobody was taking anything for granted. But on this night, they could spend a moment or two smiling at the memory of that skinny 15-year-old bouncing around a gym in Bourg-en-Bresse, and they could appreciate everything it took to see him turn into the 22-year-old doubled over and sobbing in Oklahoma City. 没有任何人认为这一切是理所当然。但在这个夜晚，他们可以花上一两个时刻，对着记忆 中那个在布雷斯地区布尔格的体育馆里活蹦乱跳、骨瘦如柴的 15 岁少年会心一笑；他们 也可以由衷地感激，看着他蜕变成如今在奥克拉荷马城弯着腰、抱头痛哭的 22 岁巨人所 付出的一切代价。 They could realize how crazy they were to dream a dream like that in the first place. And then they could decide to keep believing in it anyway. 他们会意识到，自己当初去追求这样一个梦想是多麽的疯狂。然後，他们会决定无论如何 都要继续坚信下去。 Almost like a child. 就像一个孩子一样。 Mike Finger Sports Columnist --

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