The battle for the third center spot just got more interesting.
President of basketball operations Lawrence Frank, spoke to the media on Friday and provided some insight into the recovery and status of stretch center Serge Ibaka.
After undergoing season-ending back surgery in June, Ibaka was credited by Frank for having a productive offseason. “He has a maniacal work ethic, he’s really attacked his rehab,” Frank said. “He’s made terrific progress”.
But despite the work he already has done, Ibaka is expected to start out training camp doing non-contact, one-on-one drills. Frank said, “He’ll start out in training camp, doing non-contact, and we’ll just assess his progress and where he’s going once we introduce contact at a certain point, it’ll be in a small group, probably one on one focus and then build up to that, and see how he responds to it.