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Apart from a single photo from each of their four championship seasons， there are few reminders of the San Antonio Spurs’rich history near their locker room at the ATT Center. Down a long white hallway where action shots of each of San Antonio’s active players are displayed， the title photos -- those uncomfortable team portraits with everyone from the equipment manager to team owner --hang above metal boxes into which television stations plug their equipment. Cameras， microphones and small monitors are often left sitting on the floor under these team photos as people go about their business before the game. It is the messy part of an empty wing， far from a cherished section designed to immortalize Spurs teams reaching the ultimate achievement.

在ATT中心球館的更衣室里，除了四張奪得總冠軍陣容的全家福外，沒有太多紀念品能讓你想起圣安東尼奧馬刺隊悠久的隊史。白色長廊的盡頭擺的是現役每一名馬刺球員的照片，在這些照片旁邊，掛的就是總冠軍陣容的全家福——這些全家福包括了從器材經理到球隊老板的每個人，但不是每個人笑得都很自然。這些全家福掛在了一些金屬盒子的上方，而轉播方經常把自己的器材和這些金屬盒子連在一起。每到賽前，當所有人開始忙碌自己的工作時，相機、麥克風甚至小監視器都會被放在這些照片下方的地面上。這不過是場館里一個亂糟糟的角落，這里和人們想象中紀念馬刺取得最終勝利的榮譽室，相差甚遠。

In the players’ lockers hang jerseys with accents that are oh， so familiar. Like it has for years， white trim outlines the black for the numbers 21， 20 and 9 and black lettering for the names “Duncan，” “Ginobili” and“Parker.” But these days they sometimes sit atop a camouflage pattern， a tribute to San Antonio’s large military community， or a silver alternate with a large single spur on the front.

球員更衣室里掛著的那些隊服，怎么說呢，給人一種特別熟悉的感覺。多年如一，白色底色配上黑色細邊，上面還有黑色的21、20和9號，以及“鄧肯”、“吉諾比利”和“帕克”的名字。不過最近這些日子里，配合著這些名字的底色變成了迷彩色，這是為了向圣安東尼奧廣大的軍人社區致敬。有時候還會是一套純銀色隊服，只在胸前有一個馬刺隊標。

The Spurs have won at least 50 games in 14 straight seasons， an NBA record. They’ve had the same coach for 18 seasons， the same star player for 16 seasons and the same “Big Three” for about a decade. It’s a franchise steeped in history.

連續14個賽季，馬刺在常規賽都取得了至少50勝的成績，這是NBA的歷史紀錄。過去18年，他們用的是同一個主教練。過去16年，他們有著同一個明星球員，而距離“三巨頭”的組建，也過去差不多十年時光。這是一支根植于歷史的球隊。

But amid all the consistency， this franchise is constantly evolving. San Antonio was one of the early adopters of the SportVU① camera tracking system. Last season， the Spurs became the first team in NBA history to go textfree when they debuted their gray alternate jerseys， declining to put a city or nickname on the front of the jersey and simply featuring that spur on the chest. There is now an in-house DJ for home games and， to my knowledge， Gregg Popovich has yet to order his execution. Tim Duncan （37 years old） and Manu Ginobili （36） will be retired soon enough， but the maturation of Kawhi Leonard （22） has the team optimistic about its future.

但在這種穩定和持久當中，這支球隊也是在不斷進化的。馬刺是聯盟中最早使用球員追蹤系統的球隊之一。……